Barney Pell Email and Phone Number
San Francisco, CA, US
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San Francisco, California, United States, United States
About Barney Pell
I'm an active start-up enterpreneur, investor and advisor with over 200 investments. I enjoy helping bring advanced technology and big ideas into real applications and markets that change people's lives. I am currently Founder and CEO of Graphstax AI, a stealth AI startup.I am a Fellow in the Creative Destruction Laboratory, one of the world's top start-up accelerators, an angel investor and VC with my own fund and syndicate, World Changing Ventures, and Venture Partner at Radical Ventures. I have been active in startup companies as founder, executive and advisory roles for over 20 years. I was Founder and CEO of Powerset, a natural language search engine that Microsoft acquired. I then stayed on with Microsoft as search strategist and evangelist for Bing, Microsoft's new consumer search engine, and later as architect and general manager for Bing's Local/Mobile Search team. While at Microsoft, I led the company's long-range planning for semantics and knowledge and co-founded Bing's Knowledge Graph and Cortana, Microsoft's conversational assistant. Before starting Powerset, I was at Mayfield VC as an Entrepreneur in Residence.I was also co-founder of Moon Express, a start-up developing a commercial lunar lander; LocoMobi, a leader in smart cities and intelligent transportation systems, and Associate Founder of Singularity University. I was a founding investor and then Chairman of the Science Advisory Board for Figure Eight, a leader in human-in-the-loop machine learning, until successful acquisition by Appen; a founding investor and key advisor for Streamlit from inception until acquisition by Snowflake, and an early advisor to LinkedIn. Earlier startups included StockMaster.com, a leading online financial content provider and Whizbang! Labs, a leading innovator of web-based information extraction agents. I have also been a long-time AI research leader. I managed an 85-person AI R&D organization at NASA. Highlights included flying the first AI system in deep space (on the Deep Space One mission), the first spoken dialog system in space, and supporting the Mars Exploration Rovers mission.Specialties: AI, Machine Learning, NLP, search, e-Commerce, software agents, knowledge management, data mining, information extraction, forms processing, planning and scheduling, robotics, space exploration, financial services, intelligence, government IT, strategic planning, mergers and acquisition, decision analysis, Parking, Space.
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Barney Pell Work Experience Details
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Chief Strategist, Chief Scientist And Head Of AiMagicSan Francisco, Ca, Us
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Venture PartnerRadical Ventures May 2019 - PresentToronto, On, Ca -
Founding FellowCreative Destruction Lab Oct 2015 - PresentToronto, Ontario, CaCreative Disruption Lab is the world's leading startup incubator for AI and Machine Learning companies. The CDL originally started in the Rottman Business School, University of Toronto. The University is one of the leading centers in the world for Machine Learning. As one of 7 Fellows, and a founding Fellow in the Machine Learning track, I mentor, assess, and potentially invest in startups in the program. The program has since expanded across Canada, starting with University of British Columbia and 5 other centers under development, and my mentoring role has expanded across multiple of these programs. As the program expanded to new centers, I have been active in multiple streams and multiple locations. I was a founding fellow in CDL West (Vancouver), CDL Montreal, and founding fellow in the machine learning, quantum, and health tracks at CDL Toronto and the Prime and Health tracks at CDL West. -
LecturerStanford University Graduate School Of Business Jul 2019 - PresentStanford, Ca, UsLecturer in the Harnessing Big Data: Analysis to Action (HAIBD) course, co-organized by Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute (HAI). My talk on Crucial Questions for Applying AI is the wrap-up talk in the 3-week program. -
Board MemberUcsf Health Hub Oct 2018 - PresentSan Francisco , UsUCSF Health Hub is a non-profit designed to help UCSF inventors and qualified entrepreneurs from the local community access the support and professional development they need to grow and build successful companies. UCSF Health Hub connects ideas and companies with the people, expertise, and capital needed to grow and scale breakthrough healthcare solutions. -
Associate Founder And TrusteeSingularity University Jan 2009 - PresentMountain View , California , UsSingularity University is dedicated to educating present and future leaders in the areas of exponetially accelerating technologies. -
FounderDecision Theory Aug 2002 - PresentDecision Theory is an an incubator, advisory and investment firm focused on artificial intelligence and decision science strategy and technologies for small and large companies.
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AdvisorPharma Surveyor Jan 2006 - PresentPharmaSurveyor builds tools to help patients and health care professionals understand the interactions across all the drugs they take and find optimal combinations of drugs to minimize side effects and costs. It is truly world changing technology and I can benefit anyone who prescribes or takes drugs.
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Member Board Of DirectorsIonomr Innovations Inc. Oct 2017 - Dec 2020Vancouver, British Columbia, CaIonomr has developed revolutionary ion exchange membrane technology that drastically improves efficiency and performance while minimizing cost and environmental impact:* Hydrogen generation to fuel the hydrogen economy* Hydrogen fuel cells to power vehicles, ships, buildings and more* Onsite recovery of chemicals for heavy industry – lithium, mining and electronics* Conversion of CO2 to synthetic fuels* Energy storage -
Member Board Of DirectorsEcoation Innovative Solutions Inc (Eis). Sep 2017 - Oct 2020The Ecoation artificial intelligence platform predicts the type, location and level of crop stress using plant signals, and communicates this intelligence daily to growers on their phone or computer.Measuring plant signals is the most accurate way to predict crop stress. Plants never lie about their own health. We measure changes in plant physiology, chemical composition, photosynthesis and defensive compounds in response to biotic and abiotic stressors.We combine a mobile sensor system that detects plant signals with artificial intelligence software that can distinguish healthy plants from unhealthy ones. Crop stresses are detected with our automated robot before symptoms are visible. The result is much higher yield in greenhouses while minimizing cost, labor, pesticides, and waste.
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Chairman Of The Scientific Advisory BoardFigure Eight Oct 2016 - Oct 2019Arlington, Va, UsCrowdFlower is the essential human-in-the-loop platform for data science teams. CrowdFlower helps customers generate high quality customized training data for their machine learning initiatives, or automate a business process with easy-to-deploy models and integrated human-in-the-loop workflows. The CrowdFlower platform supports a wide range of use cases including self-driving cars, intelligent personal assistants, medical image labeling, content categorization, customer support ticket classification, social data insight, CRM data enrichment, product categorization, and search relevance.CrowdFlower has created 100s of millions of training data items from billions of human judgments. As Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board, working in partnership with CrowdFlower's Founder and Chief Data Scientist, I lead our efforts to bring in the top thinkers in AI, Machine Learning, CrowdSourcing and Workflow as advisory board members and faculty partners, coordinate our advisory board meetings, advise the company on technology and product strategy, and provide thought leadership for the company and in the broader industry. -
Founder, Vice Chairman And Chief Strategy OfficerMoon Express Apr 2010 - Jul 2019Cape Canaveral, Florida, UsBarney Pell is a co-founder Moon Express (MoonEx), a privately funded lunar transportation and data services company building autonomous robotic lunar landers. We want to be the first private company to land on the moon and help establish new avenues for commercial space activities beyond Earth orbit. The company is the first private entity in history to receive launch approval from a national government to launch into outer space. He was a Vice Chairman of the Board for the first 9 years of the company, and also served as Chief Strategy Officer. -
Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Strategy OfficerLocomobi Apr 2014 - Apr 2019Toronto, Ontario, CaLocoMobi is reinventing parking technology and experiences for drivers, owners and operators through innovations and integration of cloud, mobile, embedded devices, and AI technologies. -
AdvisorPortalarium Jul 2011 - Jul 2014Austin, Texas, UsInvestor and Adviser to startup in social games space, founded by Richard Garriott (Lord British, creator of the successful industry-defining Ultima series and Ultima Online). -
Chairman And CeoQuickpay Corporation Aug 2011 - Apr 2014QuickPay is a mobile parking search and payment application that is bringing the major trends of digital innovation to the parking industry. In April 2014, QuickPay renamed to LocoMobi and I shifted role from CEO to Chief Strategy Officer. -
AdvisorSpeak With Me Jun 2005 - Jan 2012Speak With Me is a startup creating voice-based interfaces to music and navigation systems. I advise the company on business development and corporate strategy.
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Partner Architect And Development ManagerMicrosoft Sep 2008 - Sep 2011Redmond, Washington, UsI joined Microsoft when they acquired my startup company, Powerset. While at Microsoft, I was a Partner-level executive strategist, evangelist, architect, and development manager for Bing. Key contributions included: Influenced strategy across a spectrum of Bing feature areas, evangelized Bing to US and international audiences, led the development of Microsoft's Online Systems Division's long range plan for natural language, semantics and knowledge technology, co-founded Satori, the Knowledge Graph for Bing, co-founded the project that became Cortana, led development for Bing Local/Mobile Search, and created a search quality initiative that became an institution. -
AdvisorMachine Intelligence Research Institute 2007 - Jun 2010
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Investor/AdvisorMovity 2010 - 2010Angel investor and advisor for real-estate search startup, from first Y-Combinator round until acquisition by Trulia, now Zillow. -
Investor/AdvisorAppjet, Inc. 2009 - 2010Angel investor and advisor to startup that made Etherpad, until acquisition by Google. Product subsequently became Google Docs.
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AdvisorLinkedin Jul 2004 - Jan 2009Sunnyvale, Ca, UsLinkedIn is the excellent business networking site you are currently using. As an early advisor to the company, I provided early frameworks and feedback on technologies and user interfaces for data extraction and search, product strategy, and perspectives on the the product experience as a power networker. -
Founder And CeoPowerset Sep 2005 - Aug 2008UsPowerset is a San Francisco company building a transformative consumer search engine. Powerset's unique innovations in search are rooted in breakthrough technologies that take advantage of the structure and nuances of natural language. Using these advanced techniques, Powerset is building a large-scale search engine that breaks the confines of keyword search, enabling people to express their intent powerfully and naturally in ordinary language. By making search more effective and intuitive, Powerset is fundamentally changing how we search the web. -
Entrepreneur In ResidenceMayfield Mar 2005 - Nov 2005Generate and helped evaluate potential investments in early to mid-stage companies. Focus areas included information management (advanced search and navigation, information integration, multi-modal interfaces), social software (social networks, blogs, wikis, P2P), and intelligent agents, with applications to internet search, business intelligence, ecommerce, productivity and collaboration. Formulated investment thesis on the future of search. Key role facilitating firm's investment in SNAP. Advisor to Mayfield consumer internet portfolio, including Tribe, Pluck, Snap, and BlackArrow.
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Area Manager, Collaboration And Assistant SystemsNasa Ames Research Center Dec 2002 - Mar 2005Moffett Field, California, UsR&D management for 85 person IT research organization working on topics like:- knowledge management- information integration- enterprise search- collaborative information portals- human-centered computing- work practice modeling and simulation, and- spoken dialog systemsCustomers/missions included:- Mars Exploration Rovers mission- Shuttle- International Space Station- FAA- Department of Homeland Security- NASA Astrobiology Institute Project Lead for strategic research management initiatives: - Systems analysis of IT research investments to enable NASA's real-time weather prediction capabilities with 20 year vision. - Introduced Decision Analysis formalism to NASA management. - Founder and Program Manager for Discovery Systems, a $50M/year NASA research program in the areas of data mining, analytics, visualization, search, grid computing, and automated modeling. -
Vice President, Strategy And Business DevelopmentWhizbang! Labs Nov 2000 - Aug 2002Managed vision and definition of overall strategy, including product and corporate strategy, for emerging provider of advanced web and text-processing software and services. 120-person, $7M/year company.Customers included Dun & Bradstreet, Thomson Financial, LexisNexis, Reed Elsevier, Monster.com and Citysearch. Partners included Google and Northernlight.
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Chief Strategist And Vice President, Business DevelopmentStockmaster.Com Aug 1998 - Aug 2000Managed strategy, negotiation, and implementation of partnerships for content acquisition, content distribution, and e-commerce, strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions. Helped company grow from 5 to 70 employees and from $500,000 to $4,500,000 annual revenue in two years. Developed content co-branding (B2B2C) business from scratch into major growth category with 45 clients and run-rate of $1M within 1 year. Established and managed 20+ strategic partnerships with financial, media, and internet-related technology companies. Helped raise $5M in private equity in 2 rounds. Lead negotiator on successful acquisition of StockMaster.com by Red Herring Communications.
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Senior Computer Scientist And Principal InvestigatorNasa Ames Research Center Sep 1993 - Sep 1998Moffett Field, California, UsAs a Principal Investigator, I conducted basic research in planning, execution, control, intelligent agents, information management, data mining, and software architecture.I was also Software Architect and a team leader for the Remote Agent (RA), the first software agent to fly onboard a deep space probe (during the NASA's Deep Space One mission). RA is widely considered one of the top achievements in the history of Artificial Intelligence and was awarded NASA's "software of the year" award in 1999. I was also Co-Lead of the Autonomy Integrated Product Development Team (IPDT) for NASA's New Millennium Program. This program addressed the central challenges of technology acceleration to enable and demonstrate the breakthrough capabilities needed for NASA's future. As part of this work, we developed best-practices for tech acceleration across government and established a strategic roadmap for development of component technologies and capabilities for autonomous systems over a 20 year timeframe. Other projects included work on a resource manager prototype being developed for future Mars rovers, communication satellite network management, agent controllers for human space exploration, and reusable launch vehicles.
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Phd Student And InstructorUniversity Of Cambridge Oct 1989 - Aug 1993Cambridge, England, GbPhD research in Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence. Thesis title: "Strategy Generation and Evaluation for Meta-Game Playing". Topics included game playing, search, agent architecture, machine learning, and strategy. Also instructor for Diploma in Computer Science and Master's program in Computer Speech and Language Processing. -
Visiting Research ScientistSri International Jun 1987 - Jun 1989Menlo Park, Ca, UsMember of the natural language processing research group. Wrote software for creating knowledge from text and for integrating multiple linguistic systems. Designed a discrete-event simulation of an office order-processing system and interfaced a language system to support queries, commands, and creation of rules. -
Student, Teaching Assistant And InstructorStanford University Oct 1986 - Jun 1989Stanford, Ca, UsB.S. in Symbolic Systems, with Artificial Intelligence concentration.. Teaching assistant for advanced artificial intelligence course, and instructor for introductory computer course.
Barney Pell Education Details
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University Of CambridgeAi -
Stanford UniversitySymbolic Systems
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James Monroe High SchoolHigh School Diploma
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Barney Pell's current role is Chief Strategist, Chief Scientist and Head of AI.
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Barney Pell attended University Of Cambridge, Stanford University, James Monroe High School.
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