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Subutai Ahmad
VP of Engineering
Subutai Ahmad brings experience across real time systems, computer vision and learning to his leadership of the Numenta Engineering team. Prior to Numenta, Subutai served as VP Engineering at YesVideo, Inc. From 1999 until 2005, he helped grow YesVideo from a three-person start-up to a leader in automated digital media authoring. YesVideo's real time video analysis systems have been deployed internationally on a variety of platforms: Large scale distributed clusters, retail minilabs, and consumer set-top DVD Recorders. In 1997, he co-founded ePlanet Interactive, a spin-off from Interval Research. ePlanet created the IntelPlay Me2Cam, the first computer vision product developed for consumers. Previously, Subutai served as a researcher at Interval Research.
Subutai holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Cornell University, and a PhD in Computer Science (thesis on computational neuroscience models of visual attention) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Donna Dubinsky
Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Board Chair
Numenta Founder Donna Dubinsky serves as CEO and Board Chair. She brings business operations leadership and experience to the Numenta team. Numenta also marks the third venture where Donna has teamed with Jeff Hawkins. Donna first joined Jeff in 1992 to become president and CEO of Palm, a position she held through Palm's acquisition by U.S. Robotics and subsequently 3Com Corporation. In 1998, Donna and Jeff co-founded Handspring, creator of the category-defining Treo smartphone. In October 2003, Handspring merged with Palm, where Dubinsky continued to serve on the board until early 2009. Previously, Donna spent 10 years at Apple Computer in a variety of sales, sales support and logistics functions both at Apple and at Claris, Apple's software subsidiary.
Donna holds a B.A. from Yale University in History, and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. She currently serves on the board of the Peninsula Open Space Trust and is a Trustee of the Computer History Museum and Yale University.
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Jeff Hawkins
Founder
Jeff Hawkins is an engineer, serial entrepreneur, scientist, inventor, and author. He was a founder of two mobile computing companies, Palm and Handspring, and was the architect of many computing products such as the Palm Pilot and Treo smartphone. Throughout his life Jeff has also had a deep interest in neuroscience and theories of the neocortex. In 2002 he founded the Redwood Neuroscience Institute, a scientific institute focused on understanding how the neocortex processes information. The institute is now located at U.C. Berkeley. In 2004 we wrote the book "On Intelligence" which describes progress on understanding the neocortex. In 2005 he co-founded Numenta, a startup company building a technology based on neocortical theory. It is his hope that Numenta will play a catalytic role in the emerging field of machine intelligence.
Jeff Hawkins earned his B.S. in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1979. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.
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Joe Hayashi
VP of Marketing
Joe Hayashi brings more than 15 years of product management and marketing experience to Numenta across the Internet services, software, and mobile computing industries. Joe joined Numenta from HP / Palm where he was VP of Product Management for webOS. Before coming to Palm, Joe spent several years working on mobile, consumer software, and Internet services at both Yahoo!, in the Mobile Division, and Apple Computer, in the Applications Division. In 1998, Joe co-founded eCircles.com - an early social networking service - and helped take the service from start-up to acquisition. Before starting eCircles.com, Joe held product management and marketing positions at Apple, GolfWeb, and Notable technologies.
Joe holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in American History from Harvard University.
Ed Colligan
Former President & Chief Executive Officer, Palm, Inc
Ed has been instrumental in building Palm's business and culture since 1993. During the last four years as CEO, Ed drove Palm's global leadership in innovative mobile products, such as the company's groundbreaking Palm webOS platform and Palm Pre phone, and was responsible for company strategy. Prior to being named president and CEO, Ed was senior vice president and general manager of the company's Wireless Business Unit.
Ed has been part of starting or founding five technology companies in Silicon Valley, including Handspring, Inc., the company behind the design and development of the Treo smartphone. As president and chief operating officer, he designed the marketing strategy for Handspring's handheld computers and smartphones.
Earlier in his career, Ed was vice president of strategic and product marketing at Radius Corporation. During his six years there, he helped make Radius the brand leader in Macintosh graphics, graphic imaging, and hardware development.
Ed holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Oregon.
Donna Dubinsky, Chair
Mike Farmwald
General Partner, Skymoon Ventures
Mike Farmwald is a successful serial entrepreneur. He has founded many companies with breakthrough technologies including FTL - a super computing company that merged with MIPs, Rambus - a developer of high-bandwidth interfaces for memories and other chips, Chromatic Research - a developer of media processors that was acquired by ATI Technologies, Epigram - a creator of advanced semiconductor home networking technology that was acquired by Broadcom, and Matrix Semiconductor - a creator of 3D integrated circuits.
Farmwald holds a BS degree in Mathematics from Purdue University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. He currently sits on the boards of Rambus (Nasdaq: RMBS), Matrix Semiconductor, and Circumnav Networks. Farmwald is participating on the Numenta board as an individual rather than as a representative of Skymoon Ventures.
Harry Saal
Chairman of the Technical Committee - USDOJ v. Microsoft Consent Decree
In 2002, Dr. Harry J. Saal was chosen by the US Department of Justice to lead the Technical Committee charged with monitoring and enforcing the Microsoft Antitrust case. He served as Chairman of the Committee through the May 2011 expiration of the Judgment.
Harry Saal founded Nestar Systems, a pioneer in local area network systems, in 1978. In 1986, Saal became the founder and CEO of Network General Corporation, the first company wholly dedicated to the area of network diagnostics. From 1993 through 1995, Saal served as founding CEO and President of Smart Valley, Inc., a non-profit organization chartered to create a regional electronic community based on an advanced information infrastructure and the collective ability to use it.
Saal is active in philanthropy and community affairs, having served as Chairman of the Board of the Community Foundation Silicon Valley, the President of Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley, and the Vice Chairman of the American Leadership Forum, Silicon Valley Chapter.
Saal holds a BA, MA and PhD in Physics from Columbia University. Saal serves on the board of the American Institute of Mathematics, among others.
