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California, United States

Us

Serve as a senior advisor, working primarily with the Center for Future Mobility team.

Verdant Robotics will provide the best autonomous farming services in the world. Verdant’s unique robotics technology allows high-fidelity farming with precision, frequency, and scale never before possible. This saves on chemicals and labor (the two largest costs), improves yield, and is good for the environment.

Quizlet is a leading venture-backed EdTech company used by more than 50 million students, who have created more than 400 million study sets. Over a billion questions are asked and answered on the platform every week. Investors include General Atlantic, Costanoa Ventures, Union Square Ventures, and Icon Ventures. (I've also served as interim CFO of Quizlet)Aether is building the next industrial revolution, using its state-of-the-art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling customers to manufacture complex and novel products at a much lower cost.GreenWealth Energy is a developer of electric vehicle charging systems for commercial, multifamily, and fleet buildings. GreenWealth provides turnkey solutions that include consulting, design-build, deployment, and identifying government incentives.SparkAI makes it very easy and cost-effective to inject augmented human cognition anywhere in production AI workflows, which helps enormously in eliminating barriers to progress. John Deere acquired SparkAI in 2023.Kinara processors drive AI applications demanding low latency, high performance, and low power. From real-time computer vision to Generative AI, Kinara is accelerating the next wave of edge AI innovation. Investors include Tiger Global, Coment Labs, and Catchlight Capital Partners.Muon Space is an end-to-end space systems provider that designs, builds, and operates low-earth-orbit satellite constellations delivering mission-critical data. Investors include Activate Capital, Costanoa Ventures, Congruent Ventures, and Radical Ventures.

Palo Alto, California, Us

Nauto is the only real-time, AI-powered driver behavior learning platform able to predict, actively prevent, and reduce high-risk events in the mobility ecosystem. By assessing billions of data points from a growing database of over a billion AI-processed video miles, Nauto’s machine learning algorithms continuously improve and impact driver behavior before events happen. Nauto has allowed commercial fleets to avoid more than 30,000 collisions, protecting lives, and resulting in over $200 million in savings. Investors include GM, BMW, Toyota, and Greylock.

Foster City, California, Us

Leader in autonomous vehicle technology, developing the software and hardware for a purpose-built, fully self-driving vehicle with no steering wheel or other human controls. It was the first company licensed by the State of California to carry passengers in an autonomous vehicle. Zoox was backed by a consortium of leading US and international investors, and was acquired by Amazon in Aug 2020.

Developer of breakthrough solutions for separating and stabilizing radioactive waste. It became the leading US provider of technology to the Fukushima cleanup effort. Acquired in 2016 by Veolia, a large French multinational. * Led sale to Veolia and also buy-side acquisition of a British company in 2015.

Leader in advanced biofuels and biochemicals (industrial biotech). Investors included Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, Flagship, Chevron, and others. Acquired by Renewable Energy Group in 2014.

Massy, France, Fr

Developer of enterprise backup and archiving software. Intel Capital was a lead investor. Atempo had over 4,000 medium and large enterprise customers worldwide and offices in the US, Europe, and Asia.* Led successful sale of company to ASG Software Solutions, as well as two key strategic acquisitions. * Raised two rounds of equity funding and two rounds of venture debt funding. * Served as SVP Global Operations for part of tenure and, in that role, led expansion effort in Asia and oversaw complex worldwide customer support operation, including establishment of successful outsourced operation in Morocco that materially lowered costs. * Managed finance, legal, HR, and IT.

Campbell, Ca, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

The Office of Science and Technology Policy provides guidance to the President on all science and technology matters, and also coordinates budget and inter-agency issues with the various federal agencies with science and technology responsibilities.

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

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