Ambient Devices

Board of Advisors - John Seeley Brown is currently a visiting scholar at the Annenberg Center at USC. Previously, JSB was Chief Scientist of Xerox, where he co-authored the seminal paper on many of the key concepts behind Ambient Devices in the “Coming Age of Calm Computing.” JSB was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation until April 2002 and also the director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) until June 2000. He serves on the boards of directors for Corning, Polycom and on numerous boards of startups. He is the author of Seeing Differently: Insights on Innovation (1997) and The Social Life of Information (2000) that has been translated into 9 languages with a second addition in April 2002.

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