Austin McChord (born 1985) is an American businessman and computer engineer.
He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Datto, a data backup company he founded in 2007.
By 2015 Datto had a "purported valuation of $1 billion," making it the only "unicorn" company in the state of Connecticut.
In December 2017 Datto was sold to Vista Equity Partners for around $1.5 billion and merged with Autotask, with McChord appointed CEO of the combined company.
Named to Forbes’ annual 30 Under 30 list of leaders in enterprise technology in 2015, he is a periodic author for publications such as Entrepreneur, Business Insider, and TechCrunch.