About us

Ishaan Nerurkar

CEO

Ishaan Nerurkar is the CEO of LeapYear, a platform for privacy-preserving machine learning on sensitive data. LeapYear enables the world’s largest financial institutions, healthcare, and technology companies to safely leverage, share, and generate insights on previously restricted information.

Before founding LeapYear, Ishaan led a consulting firm which partnered with government agencies, large corporations, and non-profits to apply mathematics research to enhance their data strategy.
Prior to that, Ishaan worked on a Department of Defense initiative as a researcher at MIT.

Colton Jang

COO

Colton Jang is the COO and co-founder of LeapYear. Before founding LeapYear, Colton led a consulting firm which partnered with government agencies, large corporations, and non-profits to apply mathematics research to enhance their data strategy.

Colton began his career at the Elmseed Enterprise Fund, serving as a consultant and director of client services.

Jeremy McGee

Vice President of Solutions Architecture

Jeremy is LeapYear’s VP of Solutions Architecture.  His team partners with LeapYear’s customers from pilots to production deployments, ensuring successful implementations of the platform.

Prior to LeapYear, Jeremy held a variety of data- and customer-focused roles at Palantir Technologies, Bain Capital Ventures, Obama for America, and the Boston Consulting Group. Jeremy attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he majored in Aerospace Engineering.

Christopher Hockenbrocht

CTO

Christopher is a co-founder of LeapYear and CTO at the company. Prior to LeapYear, he studied lattice cryptosystems and differential privacy at the University of Pennsylvania. After joining LeapYear, Chris worked to establish and build capabilities to scale differential privacy into an enterprise ready-technology.  Chris has focused on core algorithm implementation, fundamental advances in composition, and privacy budget tracking.

Outside of work Christopher spends his free time exploring the intersection of art and technology as an audio engineer and musician.

Garrett Long

Vice President of Marketing

Garrett Long is the VP of Marketing at LeapYear, where he directs the company’s global marketing efforts.  LeapYear enables the world’s largest financial institutions, healthcare, and technology companies to safely leverage, share, and generate insights on previously restricted information.

Garrett’s decades of experience have spanned across Fortune 500 companies and startups. Prior to LeapYear, he served as the VP of Marketing at Open Data Group, the Senior Director of Marketing at Sandisk, and Director of Product Marketing at KLA-Tencor. Garrett also holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon.

Steve Bamberger

Chief Revenue Officer

Steve Bamberger is Chief Revenue Officer of LeapYear, supporting LeapYear’s customers from sales through success.

Most recently, Steve was President at Evolv Technologies, growing revenues  91% through the COVID crisis. Prior to Evolv, Steve was Chief Revenue Officer at analytics pioneer Visier, where he was responsible for five years of over 90% growth.

Steve is a thirty year enterprise software veteran. His career includes executive positions at Oracle and at Accenture. Steve holds a BA in computer science from Duke University.

Ian Connolly

Head of Engineering

Ian Connolly is the Head of Engineering of LeapYear, where he leads LeapYear’s development efforts. He is passionate about privacy-preserving analytics and ML, building high-performing and sustainable teams, and tightening the feedback loop between research and practice.

Prior to LeapYear, he was the first engineering hire at programming language startup Dark, and worked on data platforms at Scribd. Ian also holds a degree in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin.