Donald Leka

Creator of Jumptuit and the Glide OS Donald Leka, Founder, Chairman and CEO of the Jumptuit Group, is a technology executive with over 15 years of experience creating industry-changing and award-winning cloud and data service technologies including Jumptuit and Glide OS. The ethos underlying Mr. Leka’s career from exploration to innovation to market, from Glide through Jumptuit, has been one of creating value, empowering individuals and protecting the sanctity of data. Mr. Leka’s Jumptuit Data Science and Engineering Teams developed Jumptuit’s Nexus Framework that maintains dynamic awareness of activities and relevant events, understanding the associations between activities and events and the conditions in which they occur, autonomously providing highly nuanced and individualized relevant information, insights and predictions. Mr. Leka also created the Data Rights Matrix that autonomously enforces data privacy and market sector and jurisdictional regulations in data exchange. Mr. Leka led the Glide OS product team, commercializing cloud-based services in 2005 before any of the big tech companies offered such a platform or services with the Glide Operating System and its Productivity App Suite that competed effectively with Google Docs, Gmail and MS Office. Glide received numerous awards including PC World’s Top 100 Products and Laptop Magazine’s Top 50 Web Apps. Mr. Leka and his work have been featured in WSJ, NYT, WaPo, Forbes, CNET, PCWorld, etc., and on CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, and more. Mr. Leka is the co-author of the Amazon top selling book, “Cloud Computing: The Glide OS Story, Solving the Cross-Platform Puzzle.” Mr. Leka has been a featured speaker at Harvard Business School, MIT, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, TEDx, AllThingsD with Walt Mossberg, NYU, American U, U Miami, and most recently interviewed at Davos 2020 World Economic Forum. Mr. Leka ranked Number 51 In the Top 100 Most Influential Cloud Professionals. (Onalytica, July 2015) Jumptuit ranked Number 29 In the Top 100 Most Influential Cloud Brands. (Onalytica, July 2015)