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Director and Chair - David S. Rose is an entrepreneurial executive and investor with extensive experience in high technology and communications, angel investing, finance and government. He was named by Inc. magazine to the 1998 Inc 500 list as EVP, Embedded Technology of one of the fastest growing private companies in America. During the course of his career, Mr. Rose has been responsible for raising tens of millions of dollars as an entrepreneur, and investing millions more as an angel. He has supervised the creation of an intellectual property portfolio of issued patents appraised at over $100 million and negotiated both domestic and international corporate mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Rose is the Founding Chairman of the Board of New York Angels, Inc., the leading angel investment consortium in New York City. Through his investment fund, Rose Tech Ventures, he provides capital and management expertise to promising early stage companies.



Advisory Board


John Seely Brown
Former Chief Scientist, Xerox PARC, Visiting Scholar at USC

Professor Hiroshi Ishii
Director, MIT Media Lab's Things That Think (TTT) Consortium

Thomas Manning
Senior Partner. Global leader of IT practice, Bain & Company

Richard Saul Wurman
Information Architect, Bestselling Author of Information Anxiety, Founder TED Conferences

Advisory Network

Ambient relies on a strong network of industry leaders to advise and assist in Ambient's growth.

Tim Andrews
Technology strategy

Richard Bergin
Business strategy

Alex V Chachkes
Patents and licensing

Karen Donoghue
Ethnographic research and design

Steven D. Eppinger
Product development process

Dan Katcher
Financing and Operations

Neil Mayle
Technology strategy

Johanna Schlegel
People strategy

David Tames
Consumer psychology and film



Management Team
Carl Yankowski
Chief Executive Officer
Pritesh Gandhi
Chief Operating Officer
Benjamin Resner
Chief Technology Officer
Mark Prince
VP Sales + Marketing
Board of Directors
   
Thomas H. Grant
Director

Howard Morgan
Director

Nicholas Negroponte
Director

David S. Rose
Director