Clayton is responsible for the technology behind Beep’s autonomous mobility solutions and the ecosystems that enable them. Prior to joining Beep, he established the Managed Cloud Platform organization at Virtustream, a leading cloud solutions company, where he was responsible for the development and operation of Virtustream’s private cloud offering in partnership with Microsoft and VMware. Clayton also previously held leadership positions in both product management, responsible for Virtustream’s cloud-native products portfolio, and engineering, where he ran software architecture and development for Virtustream’s cloud management platform. His work focused on probabilistic modeling and stochastic optimization for air traffic management applications. He holds patents in both flight control systems and cloud platform management techniques. Beyond his time at Beep, Clayton serves on the Georgia Institute of Technology Aerospace Engineering School Advisory Council (AESAC) and served on the NASA Ad-Hoc Task Force on Big Data.