Clayton Tino is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Beep, Inc., overseeing daily operations and laying the groundwork for the company’s future scale. Prior to his role as COO, Clayton served as Chief Technology Officer, where he was responsible for product development, safety, and regulatory affairs, providing strategic leadership and oversight over the development of Beep’s autonomous mobility platform and services. Since joining Beep in 2019, Clayton has played an integral role in the growth of Beep’s autonomous mobility business, having led the deployment and operation of a majority of Beep’s autonomous vehicle programs to date.

Prior to joining Beep, Clayton held various product and engineering leadership positions at Virtustream, a venture-backed cloud computing startup, where he started his career leading algorithm development for the company’s global cloud management platform. After Virtustream was acquired by EMC for $1.2 billion in 2015 and subsequently Dell Technologies in 2016, Clayton led the managed cloud platform organization, which developed highly scaled public cloud infrastructure products in partnership with VMware and Microsoft.

Clayton earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, with a concentration in systems design and optimization. His work focused on probabilistic modeling and stochastic optimization for air traffic management applications. Prior to earning his doctorate degree, Clayton earned his Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering degrees from Georgia Tech. He holds patents in flight control systems and cloud platform management techniques.

Beyond Beep, Clayton serves as Chair of the Georgia Tech Aerospace Engineering School Advisory Council (AESAC), has served as an Aerospace Engineering School Mentor in Residence, and through Beep, works as an industry partner of the AI Institute for Advances in Optimization. In 2024, he was awarded the “Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni Award” by Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering. Clayton lives in Atlanta with his wife and daughter.