Experience

Center for Automotive Research

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Vice President of Research and Chief Innovation Officer

  • Jan 2023 - Present



LatentView Analytics

• India
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Advisor

  • Oct 2022 - Present



Marel Power Solutions, Inc.

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Advisor

  • Oct 2022 - Present



MIT Sloan School of Management

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Scientist

  • Feb 2013 - Present

  This is an honorary position at the invitation of Professor Eric von Hippel. The role associated with this position allows me to bring a practitioner's perspective into the academy. Through this engagement, I am able to identify emerging theories and tools and test their relevance to my practice (of accelerating innovation and developing a technology-informed strategy). This is an honorary position at the invitation of Professor Eric von Hippel. The role associated with this position allows me to bring a practitioner's perspective into the academy. Through this engagement, I am able to identify emerging theories and tools and test their relevance to my practice (of accelerating innovation and developing a technology-informed strategy).



Ford Motor Company

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Technical Leader, Corporate Strategy

  • Jun 2018 - Aug 2022

  I bring a background in Technology & Business Innovation & Mobility Strategy to enable Ford's transition to from a product business to a platform business --- to continue to offer a rich portfolio of automobile products and to build an innovative ecosystem of complementary services.

• Member, Technology Advisory Board - Open Innovation

  • Jan 2010 - Aug 2019

  Provided guidance to the Ford CTO on all matters of open innovation and related technology strategy

• Senior Technical Leader, Mobility Strategy

  • Jun 2018 - Mar 2019

  I brought product, technology and innovation expertise to shape Ford Motor Company's global strategy with respect to shaping investment priorities in Mobility services.

• Founder and Architect, OpenXC Platform

  • Jan 2011 - Aug 2018

  Created the vision for arguably the world’s first open-source hardware and software platform and led a team to create a technology toolkit to accelerate automobile and mobility related innovation. All documentation placed under the Creative Commons attribution. This work was driven by the need to experiment with ways by which information from cars may be used to improve their mobility experience. It was inspired by the academic research of Prof. Eric von Hippel at the MIT Sloan School and enabled by early joint development with Bug Labs. Show less

• Senior Technical Leader, Open Innovation

  • Jan 2010 - Jun 2018

  Led the early experimentation to help shape Ford's transformation into a platform company. Designed experimental applications to assess the value of connected health & wellness. Designed and supported the development of Ford’s processes to accelerate exploratory research, technology & product development, globally; helped shaped the development of a framework to transform Ford’s culture; helped identify and recognition the innovation mindset of Ford’s employees;

• Co-Founder Project SUMURR (Sustaiable Urban Mobility with Unconstrained Rural Reach)

  • Jan 2012 - Dec 2016

  Project SUMURR (Sustainable Urban Mobility with Unconstrained Rural Reach) was a project that began with a view that access to education, healthcare, energy and water, for all, was deeply tied to human progress, everywhere. Inspired by a meeting with some science leaders in India and a passionate and driven colleague (Dave Berdish) at Ford, this project began with a study at the University of Michigan (where Dave advised students) and launched in rural Tamil Nadu in India to deliver last-mile telemedicine. This work formed the basis of several open innovation challenges and lead to several contributions to open source technology community. Show less

• Co-Founder Ford Palo Alto Research Lab (2012-2013)

  • Jan 2012 - Dec 2013

  Together with my colleagues, I developed the strategy and business-case for a five-person operation (led by T. J. Giuli with Dave Evans as employee #1), this investment has scaled to a greater than 100+ person center in 3 years and is now Ford’s crucible for design thinking related collaboration, driving our collaborations across Silicon Valley and helping accelerate innovation across Ford;

• Technical Leader, Infotronics Technologies Research Group

  • Jan 2000 - 2010

• Senior Technical Specialist

  • 1996 - 2000

  These were the early days of CMOS camera technology and I had the opportunity to design and develop prototype algorithms for automatic headlamp detection and for lane-mark detection, working with collaborators internal and external to Ford. These were also the early days of driver-assistance technology and together with a great set of colleagues working in vehicle controls, GPS technologies and signal processing, and our supplier-partners, I worked on assessing the role of CMOS sensors in reducing false alarms associated with adaptive cruise control systems. I then was invited to create a new research group and became Ford's founding leader of the Infotronics Technologies Research Group - this team created some of the foundational building block concepts with what became Ford's first generation SYNC system. Show less



Ricoh USA, Inc.

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Research Scientist - California Research Center

  • Dec 1992 - May 1996



Caltech

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Researcher

  • 1992 - 1992

  Hosted by David van Essen, then at Caltech; Worked at JPL (section 347) on telerobotic surface inspection. Hosted by David van Essen, then at Caltech; Worked at JPL (section 347) on telerobotic surface inspection.



Rutgers University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Fellow - Laboratory for Vision Research

  • 1990 - 1992

  Worked with Bela Julesz on modeling the roughly 2.0 diopter (red-blue) chromatic aberration of the human-eye, to explain how neuronal interactions in the brain might correct for this (a problem posed by Helmholtz).

• Research Assistant

  • 1987 - 1990