WELL PRINCIPLED - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chairman of Scientific Advisory Board, Investor
Originally an engineer and later program manager for missile guidance systems at Hughes Aircraft Company, Anne Marie became a professor of business and revolutionized our understanding of innovation. She invented the first and only predictive measure of firms' R&D productivity. After earning a masters and PhD from UCLA, Anne Marie's work has been consistently published in top academic journals. She now holds the Robert and Barbara Frick endowed professorship at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on innovation in the large and small-including both entrepreneurship and enterprise R&D. Anne Marie has published numerous Harvard Business Review articles, as well as books on both topics: Venture Design (entrepreneurship) and How Innovation Really Works (enterprise R&D). Using a rare combination of well principled theory and real world empirics, Anne Marie has shattered conventional views of R&D and replaced them with proven theories that beat the S&P by 10 fold, can add $1 trillion of value back into the US economy, and most importantly have the potential to restore economic growth to its mid-century level.
Job Titles:
- EVP Strategy and Operations
Beth understands the story that data tells. For 25 years, she has delivered business value from technology across R&D, IT and commercial divisions. Beth contributed leadership, patented innovations, models and software at Fortune 200 Monsanto and startup-to-IPO Calyxt. She holds a PhD in Plant Breeding and Genetics and a Masters of Agri-business from Kansas State.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder, Principal Engagement Engineer
Chronically the first customer-facing engineer, Chris has delighted customers with deep-data applications from corn germplasm catalogs to global satellite data and environment simulations. Marshalling his broad expertise from cloud architecture to data visualization, Chris delivers outcomes customers love and leads solutions teams to productize them.
Tired of working construction, Daniel taught himself how to program, was accepted into Jim McKelvey's LaunchCode, and earned a position at CiBO Technologies. He spent 5 years building UIs for statistical exploration at CiBO and marketing automation at PowerInbox. Uncommonly extroverted, at WP Daniel works closely with customers to ensure their needs are met; he thinks this position is perfect.
David Worn is an educator, entrepreneur and investor. Most recently, David served as President and CEO of CiBO Technologies and as a Director at Palantir Technologies where he helped build one of the world's most valuable private software firms. Prior to joining Palantir, he was an analyst with the Department of Defense and an engineer with the MITRE Corporation. David earned his BA in Asian Studies from Cornell University and his MA in Security Studies from Georgetown University. He was a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has lectured as an adjunct professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. David splits time between Boston, MA and Charlottesville, VA with his wife Carrie and their two sons.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder, Principal Platform Engineer
Joe has spent 15 years building foundational platforms, from middleware at AT&T, to startups across FPGA-accelerated high-frequency trading, accelerated ETL, machine learning based network security (acquired by Cisco) and hybrid AI/physical models of global-scale crop simulation. Joe holds a BS in Applied Math and a PhD in Computer Science from WashU.
Jorge chases difficult problems wherever they are, from high availability real time systems at Stripe to retail analytics at Home Depot. Bringing over 20 years of software engineering experience across banking, agriculture, biotech, retail, telecommunications and HR, and in companies big and small, Jorge delivers the critical systems enterprises rely on.
Leah works passionately with businesses to identify their core needs and build products that help them work better, smarter, and faster. She built tools for digital agriculture at Syngenta and CiBO technologies, and for IoT logistics with Verizon Connect. Leah has a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.S. in Geospatial Science from the Sorbonne and Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis.
Pat understands both the technical and human side of engineering innovative and robust software. With 23 years of experience as a hands-on software developer and technical leader, he's been involved in everything from mom-and-pop retail reporting systems to large-scale genomics in the cloud. He loves taking nascent systems and ideas to production while building happy, high-performing teams.
Ryan has galvanized teams with bold vision and disruptive, patented innovations since 2003. Ryan transformed distributed analytics across an academic lab, his first bootstrap startup and computational biology and cloud teams at Monsanto. He grew VC-backed CiBO from 7 to 70 engineers and data scientists. Ryan holds an MBA and BA prob/stats from Olin and WashU.