Gordon Franklin

Gordon Franklin is a rare combination of AI scientist, systems architect, and repeat founder who has spent his career building the infrastructure behind large-scale, high-impact systems—from healthcare intelligence to hands-on experience with HHS, FDA, and HIPAA regulatory environments.

Trained in biomedical AI at the Mayo Clinic, Gordon began his work at the frontier of early tumor detection by AI using medical imaging, laying the foundation for what would become a career focused on applying AI to real-world, mission-critical environments.

He later joined IBM, where he architected core systems for Wells Fargo’s online banking platform and Charles Schwab’s trading infrastructure, and led enterprise sales initiatives at IBM Greater China, generating $230M+ in revenue through strategic deal execution and large-scale client partnerships within a year.

As a serial entrepreneur, Gordon has consistently turned deep technical insight into scalable companies. He co-founded and scaled two companies to successful acquisitions, one by SAP (Business Objects) and the other by Cisco Systems. At Assia, Inc., working alongside DSL pioneer Dr. John Cioffi, he contributed to technologies that enabled AT&T’s IPTV over DSL, operating at telecom-scale infrastructure.

Today, as Founder and CEO/CTO of Roundtree Lab, Gordon is building the next generation of AI-powered healthcare infrastructure. He developed an AI-driven Patient Referral Cloud now used across 300+ hospitals in the U.S., fundamentally rethinking how clinical data, decision-making, and care coordination operate at scale. His platform replaces legacy systems like Epic and Cerner with AI-native architectures, reducing costs while improving clinical outcomes.

Beyond product and systems, Gordon is a recognized FDA and global regulatory expert, with hands-on leadership in IND, NDA, and BLA submissions, bridging the gap between cutting-edge technology and real-world clinical deployment.

What sets Gordon apart is not just technical depth, but pattern recognition across industries—from finance to telecom to healthcare—allowing him to identify structural bottlenecks and build entirely new layers of infrastructure to solve them.

He is now focused on defining the next frontier: AI-native clinical intelligence systems and devices that operate as foundational infrastructure for global healthcare.