The Team

Meet the leadership team

We’re a powerful team that loves to create great experiences and make meaningful
connections in the manufacturing industry.

Rebecca Trachtenberg

Founder and CEO

Co-founded Axion Ray, an AI company for manufacturing servicing and warranty claim trending. Led US growth and expansion at Drawboard, a CAD review platform.
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Ben Larue

Head of Engineering

Early-stage engineer at multiple startups, built SaaS products from the ground up still in the market; 2x founder with successful exits; loves building software.

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Ken Kelzer

Strategic Leadership

Vice President Global Hardware Components and Subsystems, General Motors || Judge for The GM Prize on Good Jobs and Inclusive Entrepreneurship.

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Patrick Barrow

Strategic Leadership

Former Ford Motors Solutions Architect & Business transformation Leader.‍

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Jeff Yanssens

Business & Engineering Consultant

Former Chief Engineer at General Motors. With expertise in developing, engineering, and executing complex vehicle development.

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Franklin Liou, PhD

AI Engineer

Former LLM Data Scientist at Magnifi by TIFIN, specializing in training and deploying agentic financial chatbot models. Holds a PhD in Physics from UC Berkeley.

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Amaury de Guillebon

AI & Machine Learning Engineer

Former Mechanical Engineer at SuitX, designing exoskeletons for manual laborers, and Machine Learning Engineer at Onclusive, focusing on training and deploying NLP models for text processing.

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David Su

Director of Deployment Strategy

Former Senior Technical Product Manager at StackPath, LLC, and US Army veteran with expertise in armor, military intelligence, operations, logistics, and technology consulting for HR commands and HQ.

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Ricardo Vargas

Senior UX & UI Designer

Former lead UX/UI Designer at Dynepic's MOTAR for the US Air Force Training Hub. Led Product Design at Sequin an Unreal Engine review platform for virtual production.

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Careers

We are always looking for talented people

Apiphany is growing fast, and we are always looking for passionate, dynamic, and talented individuals to join our distributed team all around the world.

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Our Values

Building on Our Core Principles

Our values guide us, fostering innovation, collaboration, and integrity while shaping a culture of respect and meaningful impact for our team and customers.

Ownership-biased for action

Team members who aren’t satisfied with surface-level answers and will dive into the details of the data.

Customer Obsession

Low ego because the outcome matters more than who gets the credit.

Find a way

Extraordinary ability to confront open-ended problems in unstructured environment.

Think BIG

Adaptive and introspective; willing to learn, guide, lead, and follow.

FAQs

Why Apiphany exist?

Hardware engineers build the world we see and live in, and we’re here to help them build better products faster. We leverage our manufacturing & AI focus to empower engineering organizations to create effectively.

What is our vision?

Our vision is to build the best end-to-end Engineering & Product development efficiency.

What is our mission statement?

We want to empower & inspire the hard-tech builders & creators to enable faster and smarter products.

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