Team

Two old friends. Forty years of building technology.

Perdata.ai is co-founded by Pete O’Dell and Johan Wikman, supported by an advisory bench across legal, education, government, marketing and community engagement.

Pete O'Dell

Pete O’Dell

CEO · Co-founder

Long-time enterprise software operator. Scaled and sold multiple B2B businesses. Author of 3 technical books and co-author of Dying for Friendship and Community. Passionate fly fisherman.

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Johan Wikman

Johan Wikman

CTO · Co-founder

Engineer and systems architect. Technology executive in multiple startups and public companies. Hands-on across the entire product stack. Passionate endurance athlete.

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Advisory bench

People who have already done what we’re trying to do.

Senior advisors across the disciplines that make a friendship company work: legal, education, government, marketing and community engagement. We bring them into product, partnership and policy decisions early.

Legal

Data, identity and consent.

Privacy counsel guiding how the Conexus Social and Conexus Profile meet the bar we set for user ownership.

Public sector

Government and education.

Advisors who have built community programs inside cities, school systems and federal agencies.

Marketing

Community and brand.

Leaders who have built loyalty and belonging programs at scale for category-defining consumer and B2B brands.

Our origin story

Where it started.

Hiring

We will share open roles when we have funded them.

Until then — if you are an engineer, designer, or community-program operator who believes friendship is infrastructure, write to us anyway. We keep a list of talented people.