Founder of Misfit; Former President and CTO of Fossil Group, Connected Devices using fashion and design to make technology useful and beautiful. Co-founder of Elemental Machines (IoT, life science), Misfit (wearables), AgaMatrix (diabetes, digital health), FireSpout (natural language processing). Pre-startup life: worked at Microsoft Research in NLP under Kai-Fu Lee, worked on a PhD in Linguistics at MIT under Noam Chomsky, studied Math & Linguistics at UIUC. Love helping exceptional founders build companies based on scientific breakthroughs, especially in: materials science, semiconductors, food biotech.