{"id":"4d77fddb-10be-4c72-b640-88f987cb4717","slug":"gerardo-pardo-castellote","name":"Gerardo Pardo-Castellote","bioBrief":"Co-founder and CTO of Real-Time Innovations (RTI). Co-authored the OMG Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard, the connectivity standard used in autonomous systems, robotics, and industrial IoT. Principal Investigator on over a dozen research grants including SBIR and ATP. Holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering, MS in Computer Science, and MSEE from Stanford University, plus a BS in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Authored five patents and 50+ technical papers on real-time and secure distributed systems.","priorExits":null,"nationality":"Spanish-American","verificationPosture":null,"aliases":[],"sources":[{"url":"https://www.rti.com/hubfs/RTI_Corporate-Fact-Sheet_2022.pdf","name":"RTI","title":"RTI Corporate Fact Sheet"},{"url":"https://www.rti.com/company/team","title":"Leadership Team — RTI","sourceName":"RTI"},{"url":"https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded/software/article/21800168/rti-qa-on-building-the-dds-security-standard","title":"RTI Q&A on Building the DDS Security Standard","sourceName":"Electronic Design"},{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerardo-pardo-castellote-28a5234","title":"Gerardo Pardo-Castellote — LinkedIn","sourceName":"LinkedIn"}],"reviewStatus":"reviewed","createdAt":"2026-08-15T02:58:16.785Z","updatedAt":"2026-08-15T10:24:38.799Z","educations":[],"companyRoles":[{"id":"35bb5ac9-7717-4187-aef6-a1c7f7224a12","personId":"4d77fddb-10be-4c72-b640-88f987cb4717","companyId":"4dc8fd3a-4b01-4a1d-b310-a14c8bf1ec20","role":"founder","roleTitle":"Co-founder & CTO","startDate":null,"endDate":null,"currentRole":true,"roleBasis":null,"createdAt":"2026-08-15T02:58:17.538Z","company":{"slug":"rti","name":"Real-Time Innovations (RTI)"}}],"boardRoles":[],"investorRoles":[],"foundings":[]}