RealWear

Earned a bachelor's in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and served as a U.S. Navy officer, retiring as a Lt. Commander after more than 25 years of active and reserve service. As chief engineer at Raytheon's Electronic Warfare Systems business, won the U.S. Navy's Next Generation Jammer competition, a program worth an estimated $8 billion. Co-founded DAQRI with Brian Mullins in 2010 and served as president from 2014–2016, pioneering enterprise augmented reality. That experience clarified his conviction that "the business we actually were in was knowledge transfer, and above all, had to be safe," leading him to meet inventor Dr. Chris Parkinson and co-found RealWear in early 2016. During fundraising, endured a period raising month-to-month to meet payroll before closing an $80 million Series B in 2019 led by Teradyne.

Graduated from the University of Rochester with a BA in Economics and Anthropology and holds an MBA and MS in Information Science from Penn State University. Previously worked in professional services for Siemens before serving as Vice President of Sales at DAQRI, an augmented reality pioneer that raised over $140 million. Founded and led CurvNetworks, a micro-transaction celebrity platform that was privately sold in 2011. Also founded PixelFree Studio and Hippo, the latter a virtual care platform developed with the former CEO of Ochsner Health, initially piloted at a Shell hospital in Nigeria. At RealWear, established a global sales force and channel network driving adoption in over 57 countries, growing the company from concept stage to world leader in industrial wearables market share.

Holds a PhD in Computational Chemistry and Molecular Visualization from the University of Manchester. Earlier in his career contributed to pioneering wearable and distributed computing platforms at Kopin Corporation, Alien Technology, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Led technology development for Kopin Corporation's "Golden-i" series of head-mounted computers over 9 years of R&D, resulting in more than 100 patents around head-worn computing and 5 generations of headset devices. Left Kopin in 2015 and secured the licensing rights to commercialize the technology. The visionary mind behind the HMT-1® flagship headset that started the RealWear story in 2016. Served as RealWear's CTO since co-founding the company in 2016, was appointed CEO in August 2023, and stepped down in January 2025 after a decade of dedication. His specialty lies in developing hands-free computing built on high-accuracy, noise-robust speech recognition, and gesture-controlled user experiences.

Spent over a decade at Microsoft, rising from Director of Corporate Development & Strategy to Managing Director of Intellectual Property and Licensing, where he also led corporate development and strategy initiatives. Subsequently served as Vice President at Intellectual Ventures, followed by roles at Rock Capital LLC and Blackstone IP, deepening expertise in IP monetization and tech M&A. Holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business and earlier worked in telecom M&A advisory at TD Securities and West Merchant Bank. That IP licensing background proved foundational: as co-founder and Head of IP at RealWear, he brought direct knowledge of Microsoft's enterprise partnership models, helping the startup secure critical Snapdragon chipset access during semiconductor shortages through the Qualcomm Ventures relationship.

Earned an honours degree in Electronic Engineering from Cambridge University before starting as an electronic engineer at IBM developing CRT monitors. At Motorola, led product management for the world's first Java-based smartphone and co-founded WAP Forum, the early mobile Internet standards body. Joined mobile-email pioneer Sendit AB (acquired by Microsoft in 1999), then served as Director of Program Management in Microsoft's Mobile Internet unit. Led marketing and product at Sonim Technologies, where the company quadrupled revenues to $115M during his tenure, and BridgePort Networks, which invented Wi-Fi/cellular handoff technology. Also spent time in venture capital in Milan and Boston. Founded RealWear in 2016, bringing decades of mobile-device and wearable-computing expertise to industrial head-mounted systems. Stepped down for health reasons in March 2023; passed away August 8, 2023.