Barney D. Pell

Male, 39 years old

I'm an active entrepreneur, angel investor, technology and product strategist. I enjoy helping bring advanced technology and big ideas into real applications and markets that change people's lives. I'm currently Chairman CEO of QuickPay, a mobile parking commerce startup, and CofounderCSO of Moon Express. I'm also an associate founder and serve on the board of trustees for Singularity University. I was previously Founder and CEO of Powerset, a natural language search engine that Microsoft acquired. I then stayed on with Microsoft as search strategist and evangelist for Bing, Microsoft's new consumer search engine, and later as architect and development manager for Bing's LocalMobile Search. Before starting Powerset, I was at Mayfield VC as an Entrpreneur in Residence. Prior to Mayfield, I managed an -person advanced IT RD organization at NASA. Highlights included flying the first AI system in deep space (on the Deep Space One mission), the first spoken dialog system in space, and supporting the Mars Exploration Rovers mission. I have been active in startup companies in operational and advisory roles for over years. Previous startups included StockMaster.com, a leading online financial content provider acquired by Red Herring in March , and Whizbang Labs, a leading innovator of web-based information extraction agents. Whizbang created Flipdog, an online recruiting site that automatically built the world's largest jobs database extracted directly from corporate website, which was acquired by Monster.com. Specialties Parking, mobile, ecommerce, search, speech and language processing, NLP, software agents, knowledge management, data mining, information extraction, forms processing, planning and scheduling, robotics, space exploration, financial services, intelligence, government IT, interactive media, games, strategic planning, mergers and acquisition, content licensing, program management, decision analysis read more ...
  • venture capital
  • hiking
  • games
  • evolution
  • chess
  • mythbusters
  • robotics
  • software
  • University Of Cambridge
  • Stanford University
  • James Monroe High School
  • Entrepreneur
  • Vice President
  • Founder
  • CTO
  • Area Manager
  • Chairman
  • Powerset

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