Michael Lydon Email & Phone Number

Tolland, CT

Hartford, CT

• As a co-founder, successfully converted a start-up idea into a premier online crowdsourcing community (TopCoder) with over 600,000 members over a 13 year period – company acquired in September of 2013.
• Performed as a Principal Investigator on 3 DARPA programs (CS-STEM, InSPIRE, and CSFV) leading TopCoder’s proposal, technology strategy, and implementation phases on each program.
• Led a partnership effort between TopCoder, NASA, and Harvard Business School in the creation of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) and the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL). To date, these.
• Co-author of a paper published in Nature Biotechnology Journal (Feb 2013) that discusses innovation and crowdsourcing efficacy in the field of computational biology.
• Co-inventor on 6 issued patents, and 6 pending patent applications in the field of software development competitions and online community.
• Named one of the 101 Trust Leaders in Cloud and Hosting for 2013 by Total Product Marketing.

Glastonbury, CT