Senior Director at iRobot Corp, and founder of five technology companies with three successful exits and two IPOs. Holds 25+ patents and has developed and installed high-speed automation for dozens of Fortune 500 companies. Federal patent jury trial experience. Graduate of UNC (Physics and Computer Science), Duke (MBA), Oxford –UK (Engineering Sciences)

Co-founder: MS in Gerontology, MBA. Biochemist with over 20 years at GSK in drug discovery, pharmacology, and biotechnology. Multiple peer reviewed publications. Experienced in managing and licensing IP contracts

Automation and System Engineering expert with strong commercial experience who founded and exited a pharmacy robotics company, Rx Medics.. He is Adjunct engineering professor at NC State and Duke University with multiple patents in pharmacy automation, sensing, software.

– Expert database search and cloud software product developer. Claim to fame is was the lead developer of Apache 2.0, Apache Portable Run-time as Previous VP of Apache Portable Run-time project, developing at IBM and at Red-Hat, LuLu others.

Division Financial Officer for iRobot Corporation. Key financial manager and controller for several startups. Expertise in small business finance and government reporting, SBIR and FAR contracts, DoD security officer, MBA.