Fernando Torres
CEO & Cofounder, Memori
RootsMom’s side, AcapulcoDad’s side, Torreón
Building Memori
I’m CEO and cofounder of Memori, the personal memory profile for AI. Memori keeps your projects, notes, and meetings in one memory you own, and lets every AI you use — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini — work on what matters to you. Better models matter; durable personal context is what makes them useful to a specific person or team.
At Stanford GSB (MSx ’26), with cofounder Shekhar Bhende and faculty sponsor Scott J. Brady, I interviewed 36 experts and built three agent prototypes to find out why so few AI agents make it to production. The finding: models are roughly 30–40% of production success; the rest is context and memory, integration, governance, evals, and ops — the Eight Pillars. Memori started there. I also draw comicMemori, a comic that explains how AI memory works.
Before Memori
Before Stanford I spent seven years at Chinoin, a Mexican pharmaceutical company, moving from Project Leader to Business Development Director. I led a team of 11 across licensing and partnerships in 35+ countries and a portfolio of 160+ products.
I have been writing software since before I was ten. Along the way I founded FerminTech, a CNN‑based lung nodule detection system for medical imaging, and led product and engineering on chronic‑disease platforms. Healthcare is where I learned to build systems that have to work outside the demo.
Beyond the work
Born in Mexico City to a family that is half Acapulco and half Torreón, now living in Palo Alto with my wife and son. Husband and dad are the two titles I am proudest of.
I am a recreational triathlete. I have completed a couple of Ironmans and a couple of marathons, and I really want to do my first trail‑running ultramarathon.
I read the way other people train: I am halfway through the 52-volume Harvard Classics, with the Great Books of the Western World queued behind them. I play chess most weeks, I have built every PC I have owned, and video games taught me to code before school did. The full stats sheet is below — levels self-reported.
Off-duty stats
Skills, the other kind.
Nine levels, self-reported and unaudited. In the tradition of the game that taught me to code, 99 is the cap — except where a shelf of books or a Halo playlist says otherwise.
- Coding99 of 99
Started at nine with a RuneScape private server. Still grinding XP daily.
- Halo50 of 50
Rank 50 in the Halo 3 MLG playlist. Formerly #1 on the Halo Wars GameBattles ladder.
- Chess74 of 99
Ibero University chess team. Opens with e4 and accepts the consequences.
- Endurance87 of 99
Two Ironman finishes and a couple of marathons. Trail ultra pending.
- Reading26 of 52
Harvard Classics: 26 of 52 volumes. The Great Books of the Western World are next.
- PC building92 of 99
Every rig built by hand. GPU slot reserved until prices behave.
- Negotiation88 of 99
160+ products, 35+ countries, seven years at Chinoin.
- Memory systems81 of 99
Eight pillars of research, one company. Memori keeps the context; I keep forgetting my keys.
- Fatherhood99 of 99
Max level reached. XP still accumulating.
Old habits. The code still works here:↑↑↓↓←→←→BA
Two tracks, one overlap
Skills & Expertise
Technical
- Agentic System Design
- TypeScript
- Python
- Next.js
- Machine Learning Workflows
- SQL
- R
- REST/gRPC
- Kubernetes
- Cloud Infrastructure
Domain Expertise
- Context Management
- Enterprise AI Adoption
- Pharmaceutical BD
- Licensing Negotiations
- Healthcare Operations
- Supply Chain Optimization
Leadership
- Founder-driven Execution
- Product Thinking
- Strategic Negotiation
- Deal Execution
- Cross-functional Leadership
- Enterprise Stakeholder Mgmt
Career journey
CEO & Cofounder
Memori
The personal memory profile for AI. Keep your projects, notes, and meetings in one memory you own, and let every AI you use — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini — work on what matters to you. Cofounded with Shekhar Bhende.
Sloan Fellow (MSx)
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Conducted applied research on AI agent architectures, long‑term memory systems, and context infrastructure. Built Memori as part of the venture development track and engaged with faculty and industry leaders across AI, product, and healthcare.
Business Development
Chinoin
Project Leader October 2018–November 2020; Business Development Manager November 2020–November 2022; Senior Business Development Manager November 2022–January 2024; Director January 2024–May 2026. Team of 11, 160+ products, 35+ countries. Led international negotiations for major licensing deals across 35+ countries. Oversaw strategic partnerships, financial modeling, and regulatory coordination.
Founder
FerminTech
Built a platform using Convolutional Neural Networks to identify lung nodules from medical images. Achieved radiologist‑level accuracy in predicting lung cancer probability for challenging nodules.
CTO & Product Manager
Sahna & InnovaSalud
Developed a platform using Angular, Node.js, and MongoDB to assess risks for diabetes and hypertension, delivering personalized health plans including nutrition and physical activity recommendations.
Co‑Founder
Socially MX
Co‑founded a marketing and communications company specializing in digital advertising, sales promotion, and brand positioning consulting while in college.
Industrial Engineer
Ibero University
Graduated from Ibero University in Mexico City. Active member of the chess team and built lasting relationships with peers.
First server
Self-taught, age nine-ish
Started coding to build and run a RuneScape private server, and kept it alive for six months for a mid‑size community of strangers. Uptime, cheaters and a family PC as production hardware: the first lessons in building systems that have to work.