Founder Profile
Ion Stoica
Last reviewed: November 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Ion Stoica?
Ion Stoica is a founder of Anyscale, which was founded in 2019 with Robert Nishihara and Philipp Moritz. Ion Stoica is a founder of Databricks, Inc., which was founded in 2013 with Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Reynold Xin, Patrick Wendell, Andy Konwinski, Scott Shenker and Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji.
- Companies founded
- Anyscale and Databricks, Inc.
- Founded
- 2019
- Co-founders
- Robert Nishihara and Philipp Moritz
Background
Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley and co-director of the AMPLab.
Founding Story
Ion Stoica (born 1965) is a renowned computer scientist who previously co-founded Conviva. He served as the initial CEO of Databricks from 2013 until 2016, guiding the company through its early venture capital rounds before handing the role to Ali Ghodsi. He remains Executive Chairman.
Education: Carnegie Mellon University; Politehnica University of Bucharest.
Stoica was born in 1964 or 1965 and is Romanian-American. He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, and also co-founded Conviva and Anyscale.