John Bacus
Senior Director of Design, Trimble Platform, Lecturer • DESIGN, AR/VR, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
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.
Polly Fields
Co-Chair, ATLAS Institute Board of Advisors
Per Karlsson
Director, Media Technology Research at Ericsson & Head of Ericsson Research in Silicon Valley
Kyle Kuczun
Startup Coach
Taylor Lorenz
Columnist at the Washington Post
Margaret Minsky
Visiting Professor, Interactive Media Arts, NYU-Shanghai
Lisa Neal-Graves
Board Member, Rocky Mountain Public Broadcast Media; Board Member, Crisis Center (JD18); Advisor Blackstone Entrepreneurial Network; Board Member, Pinery Water and Water Sanitation Board; Principal Consultant, LMNG Innovations
Bobby Schnabel
Professor and External Chair of Computer Science, CU Boulder; Founding Director, ATLAS Institute • University of Colorado Boulder
Computer Science
Eric Schweikardt
CEO, Modular Robotics
Rob Sherwood
Principal Director, Strategy Integration at The Aerospace Corporation; Member, ATLAS Institute Board of Advisors
Suzanne Stoller
Lecturer • Executive Advisor • Industry Mentor
Jackson Tilley
Associate Director of Communications at Noom
André Zachery
Artistic Director, Renegade Performance Group • Member, ATLAS Institute Board of Advisors
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 people have supported the institute over its development, and continue to be strong advocates for ATLAS and its ongoing evolution.
- 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.
- Beth Galetti – Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Amazon
- 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
- Ram Narayanswamy — President, Teaq Innovations
- 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
- Nathan Seidle — Founder, SparkFun Electronics
- 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 (retired), University of Colorado at Boulder
- Phil Weiser – Attorney General, State of Colorado
- John Winsor – General Partner, Winsor Communications
- Tish Winsor – former Board Member
- Lauren Jones Young - former Board Chair, Principal, LJYoung Consultants