TomBot

Hank has been a Chief-level executive for more than 40 years. As an engineering and operations expert, Hank has built multiple companies into industry leaders. Hank’s technical curiosity and systems mentality give him the unique ability to fundamentally understand all of the elements of complex systems and processes. These skills have been applied to consumer electronics design and manufacturing, custom software development, computer systems integration, and very large data processing and management, and now robotics. Hank has also spent many years as a hobbyist roboticist and remote-control airplane builder and competitor. These experiences, combined with his career in engineering and systems design gave Hank the insight on how to technically execute the Tombot robots. Inventing the perception, control and behavior systems for Tombot’s robots, Hank’s ingenuity has led to the filing of a comprehensive family of patents.

Jesse has spent 20 years in management and leadership positions. Jesse built and managed high-performing internal engineering and operations teams - the largest operating divisions at ACT. Jesse also oversaw very large contract teams and 3rd party suppliers. These experiences have led Jesse to develop best-practices operations systems. In addition to his technical skills and business acumen, Jesse is a “get stuff done” guy. Creating and adhering to operating budgets and timelines are core strengths. Jesse’s skills begin with the innate ability to accurately forecast budgets and timelines. Accurate projections are critical for the financial management of Tombot, and for setting appropriate customer and investor expectations. In addition to setting-up Tombot’s IT and operations systems, Jesse constructed and produced all of the realistic behaviors in our prototypes. Jesse leads all aspects of the identification, selection and oversight of Tombot’s supply chain, including the performance testing of key components.

Tom has been in the high tech industry since 1985 - the early days of the PC revolution. The extraordinary demand for PCs at the time far outstripped the supply of workers, creating unusual opportunities for anyone involved. At Novell, Tom was repeatedly promoted and given responsibilities that would only have been attainable after decades of service in more mature industries. Tom was fortunate to receive the necessary training, support and mentorship from senior leadership to take on these heady challenges. These early experiences provided Tom with the education and confidence to join a startup in late 1989. Functioning as a member of ACT’s Office of the President, Tom oversaw all client-facing activities including sales, marketing, consulting, new product development, and strategic 3rd party relationships. ACT’s core leadership team built the company into one of the world’s largest and most-respected litigation automation firms. Tom applied his experience and education to Tombot’s product development. Using a data-driven and human-centered design approach, Tom’s leadership has produced a product that we believe not only technically out-performs every competitive product on the market, but is also more highly-desired by our customers. Tom utilized his previous experience as an operator to institute the core financial, accounting, HR, sales and marketing systems to efficiently run and control Tombot’s key management disciplines. A key feature of ACT was its organizational culture. Rooted in flat hierarchies and diverse, interdisciplinary teams and communications, ACT’s culture led to outlier stats for employee and client retention. Tom’s focus on organizational culture is the root source of Tombot’s success for taking diverse and independent high-performing team members and forming teams that generate results.