John Bacus
Lecturer • DESIGN, AR/VR, ARCHITECTURE • Vice President of Product Management for the Design & Engineering Group at Trimble
ATLAS Institute
Chris Byrne
Former VP, Legal/IP, and Venture Partner at Samsung Electronics, Strategy & Innovation Center in Silicon Valley, reporting to Samsung's President and Chief Strategy Officer.
Beth Galetti
Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Amazon
Per Karlsson
Director, Media Technology Research at Ericsson & Head of Ericsson Research in Silicon Valley
Kyle Kuczun
Startup Coach
Taylor Lorenz
Technology Reporter at The New York Times
Margaret Minsky
Visiting Professor, Interactive Media Arts, NYU-Shanghai
Ram Narayanswamy
President, Teaq Innovations
Bobby Schnabel
Professor • University of Colorado Boulder
Computer Science
Eric Schweikardt
CEO, Modular Robotics
Nathan Seidle
BTU Lab Hacker-in-Residence • HACKING
FOUNDER • SPARKFUN ELECTRONICS
Rob Sherwood
Principal Director, Strategy Integration at The Aerospace Corporation
Jackson Tilley
Director of Public Relations and Community Affairs, Organa Brands
Lauren Jones Young
Chair, Board of Advisors • Principal, LJYoung Consultants
André Zachery
Artistic Director, Renegade Performance Group
Norah Zuniga Shaw
Professor, Director of Dance and Technology, The Ohio State University
Council of Founders & Friends
ATLAS is fortunate to have a terrific Council of Founders and Friends composed of leaders from academia, industry, non-profit organizations, and the community. These outstanding individuals have supported the institute over its development, and continue to be strong advocates for ATLAS, guiding its ongoing development.
- Susie Armstrong — Senior Vice President of Engineering, Qualcomm
- Donna Auguste— Auguste Research Group
- John K. Bennett – InWorks, University of Colorado Denver
- Kathie Broyles – Broyles Consulting
- Richard L. Byyny, M.D. – (ATLAS co-founder); Executive Director, Health Policy Center, University of Colorado Hospital; Former CU-Boulder Chancellor
- Alison Derbenwick Miller — Vice President, Oracle for Research
- Karen Diener – President and CEO, KD Geospatial Solutions LLC
- Herbert Fenster – Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP (retired)
- Gerhard Fischer – Professor of Computer Science CU Boulder (emeritus)
- Donna Flynn, VP global talent, Steelcase
- Richard Foy – Principal Partner, Communication Arts, Inc.
- Idit Harel – CEO and Founder at Globaloria
- Mazdak Hashemi - (former) Vice President of Engineering at Twitter
- Kim Koro – President, Qualcomm Government Technologies
- Mark Koro – Vice President, Government Affairs, Qualcomm
- Lindsay Lanning – Vice President, Customers for Life, Salesforce.com
- Clayton Lewis – Professor of Computer Science, CU-Boulder
- Patricia Limerick – Professor of History, CU-Boulder
- Krista Marks – Co-Founder, CEO, Woot Math; Former Vice President, Disney Online; Former CEO, Co-Founder, Kerpoof
- Mike Moniz – President and CEO, Circadence Managing director, Paladin Capital Group
- Natalie Nunez – Graphic Designer at BTI - Bicycle Technologies International
- Elfred Anthony Pinkard – President, Wilberforce University
- Jane Prey – former program director, National Science Foundation
- Doug Price – Chairman and CEO at CSBO Holdings, Inc.
- Becky Roser – former Board Member
- Chris Roser – Managing Partner, Roser Ventures, L.L.C.
- Lucy Sanders – Director, National Center for Women and Information Technology
- Bobby Schnabel – (ATLAS co-founder); Executive Director and CEO of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Diane Sieber – Associate Professor • Faculty Director, Global Engineering RAP, University of Colorado Boulder
- Jill Tietjen – President and CEO, Technically Speaking, Inc.
- James Williams III – Dean of Libraries, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Phil Weiser – Attorney General, State of Colorado
- John Winsor – General Partner, Winsor Communications
- Tish Winsor – former Board Member