Dr. Bob Glass

Cell: 415.309-7000

Work: 408.353-4118

Email: drbob@eou.com

Dr. Bob Glass' experience includes creating and running engineering teams at major industry players Apple and Xerox, and developing and managing a 150-person engineering team at Sun Microsystems. No stranger to the startup world, he has served as CEO,CTO and VP of R&D, and through his consulting firm eou.com, as engineering development consultant for several new companies. These have included B2B and B2C software firms and hardware developers for aerospace applications. In those firms he specialized in the quick development of engineering and R&D organizations, responsible for developing plans, attracting and hiring staff, and delivering product.He succeeded in a variety of environments from early concept startups through Fortune 100 companies. He has a demonstrated ability to rapidly build and manage organizations that can innovate and deliver product on time and under budget.

Sinbad with Dr. Bob at a TED Conference in Monterey, California (see http://www.ted.com)

Dr. Glass is recognized as a leading technical entrepreneur in Silicon Valley and is frequently called upon as an advisor. As the leading technologist at Sun, he became one of the main spokespersons for the firm, and is still a much sought-after keynote speaker at conferences around the world, as well as civic organizations such as the Rotary Club.

His work has been highlighted on NPR and in the international press numerous times and he is considered one of the "usual suspects" by technology journalists seeking an informed point of view. As an inventor he holds 13 U.S. and International Patents jointly with Bruce Tognazzini and Dr. Jakob Nielsen, and is the author of more than a dozen research papers on electro-optics and human vision.

He previously served with the National Academy of Science as a postdoctoral advisor and committee member and as an advisor to MIT, Georgia Tech. and Syracuse University's School of Information Studies. He's a Fellow of the Silicon Valley World Internet Center. He is a frequent guest of the government as a reviewer for the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Advanced Technology Program and government conferences on building high tech start-ups.

In the future you might end up with a "virtual" friend :-) Bob and Jessica Rabbit in Orlando, Florida.

Dr. Glass served as an elected member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's Executive Council and has been active in ergonomics ("ease of use") issues since 1969. Bob earned his doctorate at the University of Maryland in Sensory Processes Psychology and specialized in brain functioning and human color vision.

Bob is a retired Scuba Instructor (13 years P.A.D.I.), orchid grower and exotic bird lover! He lives with his wife Barbara and baby son William in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California.