Stef van Grieken is the co-founder and CEO of Cradle, a startup that aims to make it easier to engineer proteins with help from machine learning. Before becoming a founder, he was a Group Product Manager and part of the leadership team at Google Research & Machine Intelligence where he oversaw a portfolio of infrastructure, developer and applied artificial intelligence projects. He also co-lead a Google X project and worked on Google Maps and Android Auto. His work was awarded with the ‘Time Magazine Top Website 2012’ the ‘European Public Sector Award’ as well as a mention on the ‘Nerd 101: most interesting technologists, inventors and tinkerers of the Netherlands’. Stef received a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Groningen.