European esports organisation GIANTX, known for its League of Legends and VALORANT teams, has officially appointed Jack Joseph Williams as its new Chief Technology Officer.
The company announced Williams’s appointment on LinkedIn and confirmed that his primary responsibility would be overseeing the long-term technology strategy for iTero. iTero.gg is a desktop application that uses artificial intelligence to help League of Legends players with drafting (the process of picking characters before a match), game setup, and strategic decision-making in real time. GIANTX acquired the startup in July 2024 in a deal reported to be worth several million dollars.
In its announcement, GIANTX said iTero has surpassed one million downloads and is on track to quadruple its user base by the end of 2026. The company added that this would involve continuing to improve the tool for League of Legends players while laying the groundwork for expanding iTero to other games in the future.
While GIANTX’s announcement did not detail Williams’s specific day-to-day responsibilities in detail, the company stated that he would manage technology strategy, scalability, architecture, engineering, and the development of the technical organisation needed to support its ambitions.
In other words, a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is the senior executive responsible for a company’s overall technology direction. This typically includes setting long-term technology strategy, deciding which systems and infrastructure the company should invest in, and making sure the technology can handle growth without breaking down, often referred to as scalability.
A CTO also usually oversees the architecture of a company’s software, meaning how its various systems and tools are structured and connected to each other, and leads the engineering team responsible for building and maintaining the product.
Before founding iTero and joining GIANTX, Williams worked as a Senior Data Scientist at Deloitte, where he led a team implementing machine learning tools for clients. Earlier in his career, he spent four years at HSBC, working first as a Pricing Analyst and later as a Data Scientist, where he worked on forecasting and pricing models.
