DrivenIQ announced this week that Alex Lindblad has joined the company as chief technology officer and business advisor.

This moved arrived a little more than a month after DrivenIQ said it has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round backed by Capstone Technologies Group.

Now as CTO of DrivenIQ — an authority in audience data and advertising technologies — the company said Lindblad will lead the technology team to streamline its rapidly growing development operations.

In addition to overseeing the technology department, Lindblad will bring his experience and guidance in creating operational processes to support corporate alignment and goal setting to accelerate business growth.

DrivenIQ highlighted that Lindblad has a long and storied career in technology. He spent the first five years of his career developing high performance computer modeling and simulation software for Sandia National Labs, as well as founding a 3D nano fabrication company, Auma Laboratories.

At Auma Laboratories, Lindblad designed and developed microcontroller software for laser-based nano fabrication and helped co-author numerous grant applications that led to Auma being awarded a National Science Foundation SBIR grant.

After leaving Sandia, Lindblad worked with several venture capital-backed Silicon Valley startups and in 2012, along with two partners, he founded FS Studio, a software and product consultancy based in San Francisco.

During his time at FS Studio, Lindblad helped build and manage an international team of engineers working on multiple client projects ranging from computer vision aided gaming platforms to embedded micro-controller based applications.

In 2015, Lindblad joined The Appraisal Lane, a real-time used-vehicle trade network and communications platform.

As CTO of The Appraisal Lane, Lindblad helped build and scale the product and engineering organization from four to almost 50 people who designed and built multiple applications. These applications were geared around a wholesale automotive marketplace using a variety of technology stacks, including native iOS and Android applications and a cloud based backend made up of numerous micro-services.

Today, Lindblad still serves as an advisor at Trupropel, a full-service software development company specializing in both the automotive industry and large-scale data products, as well as now CTO at DrivenIQ.

“I’m extremely pleased to welcome Alex to our team and very excited about the future of DrivenIQ innovations with his leadership and guidance,” said Albert Thompson, founder and CEO of DrivenIQ. “We’re experiencing unprecedented growth as more brands and marketers turn to us to provide advanced advertising technologies and audience data and management tools to help them reach their ideal customers.

“Alex’s development acumen and leadership skills are just what we need to grow our technology stack and expand our client base,” Thompson continued in a news release.

Lindblad weighed in with thoughts about this new role at DrivenIQ.

“Technology has always been my ambition,” Lindblad said. “Even more, I have always been extremely passionate about helping brands build quality technological products and solutions that make their businesses better.

“I’m thrilled to put my skills to work for the DrivenIQ team and their clients. I’m impressed with their technology suite and appreciate how much growth they’ve experienced in a short period of time. I look forward to helping them grow even further,” he went on to say.