Darien Ford is an experienced technology leader who has led product development and built high-value teams across various industries, including gaming, financial services, video security, and adtech. As Chief Technology Officer at Madhive, Darien is responsible for scaling Madhive’s tech stack and building a world-class engineering team to continue delivering seamless modern TV advertising solutions for clients.

Before joining Madhive, Darien led engineering organizations at Affirm and Capital One. At Capital One, he led a cloud engineering product development organization that streamlined workflows and enhanced productivity for the company’s 9,000+ engineers, and created a product, go-to-market, and customer success teams to support a new line of business, Capital One Software.

An avid outdoorsman, Darien can be found hiking, skiing, snowshoeing, or biking. He lives with his wife and kids in the mountains of NY.