Timothy Chou has served as a public-company board member for 25 years, with extensive experience on compensation committees. A pioneer in cloud computing, he was Oracle’s first president of its cloud-computing business before returning to Stanford University to launch the world’s first course on cloud computing. Inspired by a student in that class, he came out of retirement to found BevelCloud, a distributed artificial-intelligence (AI) cloud-infrastructure company dedicated to transforming health care and life sciences. BevelCloud’s mission is to reduce health-care inequity, lower costs, and improve patient outcomes—particularly for children and rural communities—by deploying real-time, privacy-preserving AI applications at the point of care, both locally and globally.