Tom Ngo

Summary

Tom Ngo spans the worlds of research and entrepreneurship. He has expertise in company formation and strategy, product conception and management, agile software development, and the core technology assets that drive intellectual property. As CEO at Lumin.ai, he leads the creation of an artificial-intelligence platform capable of conducting human-like conversations. At Idealab, where he served as Chief Product Officer and continues to advise, he supplies executive guidance and early-stage implementation for selected nascent operating companies. As Chief Product and Development Officer at Aventura, he was responsible for all product-development functions. As Vice President, Disney Research, he co-led the research organization, focusing on alignment with business priorities of all business segments. As Chief Technology Officer at NextPage, he was responsible for product management, product design, and product development. Prior to that, Tom held a senior management position at Interval Research Corporation—the R&D organization funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen—where he co-invented an efficient delivery mechanism for broadband media, ground-breaking techniques for synthetic computer animation and a physically compact device for implementing the famous cocktail-party effect. In each of these areas as well as his doctoral and undergraduate work, he either holds issued patents or has published papers in peer-reviewed journals. Tom holds a Ph.D. in Computational Biophysics from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Cambridge University, where he graduated with first-class honors and received the first Sir Neville Mott prize for the best undergraduate thesis in theoretical physics.