Gerald Gordon

Gerald Samuel Gordon is the co-founder and CTO of Reference Me (ReME®), a Charlotte-based platform that uses AI and cryptographically verified references to help employers manage leadership transitions and get executives hired faster; he also hosts the 'Talent Without Pretense' podcast and speaks on AI, entrepreneurship and career growth. He brings more than 20 years of engineering and technology leadership experience, including a stint as Director of Engineering at Intuit Credit Karma (2019–2024) and earlier work at Xerox, where his inventions led to patents in areas such as automatic ink/toner consumption optimization and opacity desktop with depth perception. A Rochester Institute of Technology alumnus, he has built mission-critical systems spanning FinTech, healthcare and telecom, including secure PII data pipelines and financial decisioning platforms handling billions of transactions.