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Humatics was founded on a simple, yet powerful belief that growth in the industrial world will only be achieved by eliminating the blind spots in your operation so you know exactly when, where and how all your moving things move.
What We Do
Awards & Acknowledgements
New England Venture Capital Association’s NEVY Rising Star in Tech Award 2019
FiRa Consortium member
Gartner’s Cool Vendor in Supply Chain 2019
New England Venture Capital Association’s NEVY Rising Star in Tech Award 2019
FiRa Consortium member
Gartner’s Cool Vendor in Supply Chain 2019
We are a group of explorers, innovators and technologists who believe in confronting extraordinarily difficult problems head-on.
Leadership
Shawn Henry
Chief Executive Officer
Shawn Henry is an accomplished engineer with over 26 years of collective experience developing and bringing business-critical software applications to the market. Shawn joins Humatics from Cisco, having served as General Manager of Cisco Defense Orchestrator. For the last 2 years, Shawn was responsible for the next-generation firewall engineering, a billion-dollar business and the cornerstone of the Cisco security business group. Previously, Shawn served as Vice President of Engineering at CloudSwitch, making it easy and safe to move enterprise workloads to the public cloud. CloudSwitch was purchased by Verizon in 2011, where Shawn built its cloud storage offering. Prior to CloudSwitch, Shawn was the engineering leader of RSA Security (now part of Dell), where he built the consumer authentication business through organic growth, followed by a series of three acquisitions to create over a $100 million subscription revenue business. Before that, Shawn held several engineering leadership roles at Service Integrity, FleetBoston Financial, and Worldstreet Corporation.
James Kinsey
Chief Mobility Officer
James is an expert in navigation, control, and autonomy in field robotics, and has spent the last decade working at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on the design and operation of deep-ocean robots as well as navigation systems for manned and unmanned systems such as the Alvin manned submersible. His research has appeared in over 30 peer-reviewed publications. He has spent over a year at sea on expeditions to the Challenger Deep, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2016 El Faro shipwreck. He received his BE in mechanical engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook; and his MS and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from the Johns Hopkins University.
Ron Ranaldi
Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Ronald comes to Humatics with over 30 years of experience bringing business-critical technology to the market. He has spent time increasing market share and building global organizations in the enterprise software space and has experience in the data center, power and finance sectors. Ron served as the VP of Sales, Americas, for NGDATA where he helped spearhead the growth of AI marketing automation. He was the President of AppFirst, VP of Sales and Marketing for Validus DC system (sold to ABB), VP Eastern Sales for RogueWave Software (sold to Battery Ventures), an early member of WebLogic (sold to BEA systems) and Open Environment Corporation (IPO and sold to Borland Systems).
Gary Warzynski
Chief Financial Officer
Gary has held held multiple senior operating and finance roles at Private Equity and Venture backed startups including his most recent tenure at Exari Systems (acquired by Coupa, NASDAQ: COUP). Prior to serving in leadership roles at startups, Gary served as a member of the management team at RiverRidge Consulting Group, specializing in the triage of troubled venture backed businesses, M&A advisory services, turnarounds, and ownership transitions. Gary led strategic development teams while at Accenture Strategic Services in the Supply Chain Strategy Practice for communications and technology clients. While at JPMorgan, Gary executed finance transactions for emerging technology companies within the corporate finance investment banking group. Gary earned his bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and his MBA from Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business.
Shawn Henry
Senior Vice president, Sales and Marketing
Shawn Henry is an accomplished engineer with over 26 years of collective experience developing and bringing business-critical software applications to the market. Shawn joins Humatics from Cisco, having served as General Manager of Cisco Defense Orchestrator. For the last 2 years, Shawn was responsible for the next-generation firewall engineering, a billion-dollar business and the cornerstone of the Cisco security business group. Previously, Shawn served as Vice President of Engineering at CloudSwitch, making it easy and safe to move enterprise workloads to the public cloud. CloudSwitch was purchased by Verizon in 2011, where Shawn built its cloud storage offering. Prior to CloudSwitch, Shawn was the engineering leader of RSA Security (now part of Dell), where he built the consumer authentication business through organic growth, followed by a series of three acquisitions to create over a $100 million subscription revenue business. Before that, Shawn held several engineering leadership roles at Service Integrity, FleetBoston Financial, and Worldstreet Corporation.
Chief Robotics Officer
James is an expert in navigation, control, and autonomy in field robotics, and has spent the last decade working at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on the design and operation of deep-ocean robots as well as navigation systems for manned and unmanned systems such as the Alvin manned submersible. His research has appeared in over 30 peer-reviewed publications. He has spent over a year at sea on expeditions to the Challenger Deep, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2016 El Faro shipwreck. He received his BE in mechanical engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook; and his MS and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from the Johns Hopkins University.
Senior Vice president, Sales and Marketing
Ronald comes to Humatics with over 30 years of experience bringing business-critical technology to the market. He has spent time increasing market share and building global organizations in the enterprise software space and has experience in the data center, power and finance sectors. Ron served as the VP of Sales, Americas, for NGDATA where he helped spearhead the growth of AI marketing automation. He was the President of AppFirst, VP of Sales and Marketing for Validus DC system (sold to ABB), VP Eastern Sales for RogueWave Software (sold to Battery Ventures), an early member of WebLogic (sold to BEA systems) and Open Environment Corporation (IPO and sold to Borland Systems).
Gary Warzynski
Chief Financial Officer
Gary has held held multiple senior operating and finance roles at Private Equity and Venture backed startups including his most recent tenure at Exari Systems (acquired by Coupa, NASDAQ: COUP). Prior to serving in leadership roles at startups, Gary served as a member of the management team at RiverRidge Consulting Group, specializing in the triage of troubled venture backed businesses, M&A advisory services, turnarounds, and ownership transitions. Gary led strategic development teams while at Accenture Strategic Services in the Supply Chain Strategy Practice for communications and technology clients. While at JPMorgan, Gary executed finance transactions for emerging technology companies within the corporate finance investment banking group. Gary earned his bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and his MBA from Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business.
Board
David Mindell
Founder & Executive Chairman
David co-founded Humatics™ in 2015 with a mission to revolutionize how people and machines locate, navigate and collaborate. He is a professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, as well as the Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, and Chair of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future. An expert on the myriad relationships between people and autonomous robots, he has participated in more than 25 oceanographic expeditions and is an inventor on 8 patents in autonomous helicopters, AI-assisted piloting, and RF navigation. He is the author of five books, including Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy (2015) and Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight (2008). David has undergraduate degrees from Yale and a Ph.D. from MIT.
Shawn Henry
Chief Executive Officer
Shawn Henry is an accomplished engineer with over 26 years of collective experience developing and bringing business-critical software applications to the market. Shawn joins Humatics from Cisco, having served as General Manager of Cisco Defense Orchestrator. For the last 2 years, Shawn was responsible for the next-generation firewall engineering, a billion-dollar business and the cornerstone of the Cisco security business group. Previously, Shawn served as Vice President of Engineering at CloudSwitch, making it easy and safe to move enterprise workloads to the public cloud. CloudSwitch was purchased by Verizon in 2011, where Shawn built its cloud storage offering. Prior to CloudSwitch, Shawn was the engineering leader of RSA Security (now part of Dell), where he built the consumer authentication business through organic growth, followed by a series of three acquisitions to create over a $100 million subscription revenue business. Before that, Shawn held several engineering leadership roles at Service Integrity, FleetBoston Financial, and Worldstreet Corporation.
David Mindell
Founder & Executive Chairmen
David co-founded Humatics™ in 2015 with a mission to revolutionize how people and machines locate, navigate and collaborate. He is a professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, as well as the Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, and Chair of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future. An expert on the myriad relationships between people and autonomous robots, he has participated in more than 25 oceanographic expeditions and is an inventor on 8 patents in autonomous helicopters, AI-assisted piloting, and RF navigation. He is the author of five books, including Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy (2015) and Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight (2008). David has undergraduate degrees from Yale and a Ph.D. from MIT.
Amy Villeneuve
Director
Amy Villeneuve is a tech executive, board director and advisor to technology startups. As President and COO of Kiva Systems and Vice President of Amazon, Villeneuve spearheaded the growth of this robotics startup into a profitable venture, ultimately leading to Kiva’s acquisition by Amazon for $775M. Villeneuve then led Kiva’s successful integration into Amazon, driving the automation of fulfillment centers worldwide, and positioned its rebranding as Amazon Robotics.
Prior to joining Kiva, Villeneuve was EVP at Cross Country Automotive Services (now Agero), a strategy consultant at The Parthenon Group (now Parthenon-EY), and an operations leader running component division factories in the auto industry (GM Delco, Stoneridge). Villeneuve is also a board member of 6 River Systems, Ori Systems, and 4moms; an advisor to REsurety and Catalant; and a startup mentor through MIT’s Venture Mentoring. She holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, an MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a BS from Clarkson University.
Trevor Zimmerman
Director
Trevor Zimmerman is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blackhorn Ventures. Previously, he co-founded Farmore Capital Group (FCG), a private investment firm. While there, he led the firm’s day-to-day activities and spent much of his time working directly with entrepreneurs to build successful companies.
In addition to angel investing and venture capital, Trevor’s professional experience ranges from developing materials for biomedical implants to designing high-performance batteries for the U.S. Navy to developing systems to hinder the migration of radionuclides in groundwater at the Y-12 National Security Complex. Before co-founding FCG, Trevor was the principal engineer in the Technology Development Division of Kurion Inc, a venture-backed startup company. Here he was primarily focused on radioactive wastewater treatment efforts at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Trevor holds patents for making carbon nanopipes and ductwork with nanometric walls and separating radionuclides with submersible filters.
Trevor frequently serves as an instructor, mentor, and judge for a variety of institutions including the Department of Energy, Stanford University, and MIT. He completed a postgraduate research appointment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and holds an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Clemson University and a B.A. in Chemistry from Alfred University.
He spends most of his free time playing outside on rocks, trails, and water with his wife and two kids.
Ray Stata
Director
Ray Stata is co-founder and chairman at Analog, a company which he has built into a leading provider of semiconductor integrated circuits. Ray was CEO of the company from 1971 to 1996 and continues today as chairman of the board. He co-founded the Massachusetts High Technology Council and served on the executive committee of the United States Council on Competitiveness and the board of overseers of the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award. Ray is the co-author of Global Stakes (1982) and The Innovators (1984) and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. A founder of Stata Venture Partners, he holds BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from MIT and served as a member of the MIT Corporation from 1984 to 2010.
Amy Villeneuve
Director
Amy Villeneuve is a tech executive, board director and advisor to technology startups. As President and COO of Kiva Systems and Vice President of Amazon, Villeneuve spearheaded the growth of this robotics startup into a profitable venture, ultimately leading to Kiva’s acquisition by Amazon for $775M. Villeneuve then led Kiva’s successful integration into Amazon, driving the automation of fulfillment centers worldwide, and positioned its rebranding as Amazon Robotics.
Prior to joining Kiva, Villeneuve was EVP at Cross Country Automotive Services (now Agero), a strategy consultant at The Parthenon Group (now Parthenon-EY), and an operations leader running component division factories in the auto industry (GM Delco, Stoneridge). Villeneuve is also a board member of 6 River Systems, Ori Systems, and 4moms; an advisor to REsurety and Catalant; and a startup mentor through MIT’s Venture Mentoring. She holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, an MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a BS from Clarkson University.
Trevor Zimmerman
Director
Trevor Zimmerman is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blackhorn Ventures. Previously, he co-founded Farmore Capital Group (FCG), a private investment firm. While there, he led the firm’s day-to-day activities and spent much of his time working directly with entrepreneurs to build successful companies.
In addition to angel investing and venture capital, Trevor’s professional experience ranges from developing materials for biomedical implants to designing high-performance batteries for the U.S. Navy to developing systems to hinder the migration of radionuclides in groundwater at the Y-12 National Security Complex. Before co-founding FCG, Trevor was the principal engineer in the Technology Development Division of Kurion Inc, a venture-backed startup company. Here he was primarily focused on radioactive wastewater treatment efforts at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Trevor holds patents for making carbon nanopipes and ductwork with nanometric walls and separating radionuclides with submersible filters.
Trevor frequently serves as an instructor, mentor, and judge for a variety of institutions including the Department of Energy, Stanford University, and MIT. He completed a postgraduate research appointment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and holds an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Clemson University and a B.A. in Chemistry from Alfred University.
He spends most of his free time playing outside on rocks, trails, and water with his wife and two kids.
Ray Stata
Director
Ray Stata is co-founder and chairman at Analog, a company which he has built into a leading provider of semiconductor integrated circuits. Ray was CEO of the company from 1971 to 1996 and continues today as chairman of the board. He co-founded the Massachusetts High Technology Council and served on the executive committee of the United States Council on Competitiveness and the board of overseers of the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award. Ray is the co-author of Global Stakes (1982) and The Innovators (1984) and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. A founder of Stata Venture Partners, he holds BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from MIT and served as a member of the MIT Corporation from 1984 to 2010.
Chris Cheever
Director
Chris is a co-founder and partner at Fontinalis Partners. At Fontinalis, Chris is responsible for a wide range of critical processes ranging from deal sourcing and execution to corporate operations and business strategy. Prior to Fontinalis, Chris worked for LaunchCapital, a venture capital firm with offices in New Haven, Cambridge and San Francisco. At Launch, Chris analyzed, evaluated and executed early-stage principal investments. Previously, Chris worked in New York as an Associate at Highbridge Principal Strategies, a multi-billion-dollar private equity and mezzanine investment business within Highbridge Capital. He participated in due diligence, financial modeling and deal execution across various business sectors and types of transactions. Chris earned his MBA from the Yale School of Management and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard.
Dan Levine
Director
Dan is the managing partner of Tenfore Holdings. He has 6+ years experience working with Eddie Lampert overseeing, developing, and operating core and startup businesses, particularly within Sears Holdings, concentrating on eCommerce, mobile, social, machine learning, and local spaces. He has focused on multichannel experiences that leverage and link online, store, supply chain, pricing, inventory, merchandising, and analytics systems. Dan holds an AB from Harvard and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Tenfore Holdings is an investment management firm that provides operational value-added to growth-stage companies where technology plays a transformative role. The firm focuses on commerce and Big Data equity/debt investments where they can apply their operating experience and strategic relationships to enhance value. They have extensive experience operating at scale, and understand how to build smaller enterprises to scale. By providing capital, strategic guidance at the board level, and operational support to talented managers, Tenfore helps companies realize their full revenue, profit and market-value potential for the long-term.
Tom Lee
Director
Tom is a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1994 after several years of design and development work at Analog Devices and Rambus. Tom’s areas of research include CMOS radio frequency integrated circuit design and all types of analog circuitry, including high-speed radio frequency communications systems. He holds approximately 70 US patents and is the author of The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits and Planar Microwave Engineering, both from Cambridge University Press. He is a co-founder of Matrix Semiconductor (acquired by Sandisk), ZeroG Wireless (acquired by Microchip), and Ayla Networks. He holds SB, SM and ScD degrees in electrical engineering from MIT.
Aaron Whittemore
Director of Product and Strategy
Aaron brings well over a decade of engineering experience in the transit sector and is responsible for the strategic product direction for the mobility technology in the public transit sector. He previously served as the Director of Special Projects at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) where he worked under the General Manager on a variety of business transformation projects and led capital modernization projects for bus and transit systems. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and was selected as a Leadership Fellow in 2019 and was recognized as a Emerging Leader in Transportation from the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation. Prior to the MBTA, Aaron worked for over 10 years in complex system design and engineering serving as a Systems Engineering Leader with Raytheon on a variety of defense programs.
Douglas Breault
Director of Mobility Engineering
Doug is a multi-disciplined engineer with 15 years of experience creating highly valuable solutions and products that leverage his broad experience in mechanical engineering, software engineering, robotics, and data science. Prior to joining Humatics, Doug led teams deploying cutting-edge sensors in novel manners and developing industry leading test capabilities for iRobot and the Roomba product line. Before that, he researched thermoelectric devices and soft-bodied robot actuation using shape-memory alloys at Tufts University, was a design engineer for Lockheed Martin and while at NASA he focused on space shuttle missions and hardware for the International Space Station. He received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Norwich University.
Elena Mangano
Director of Milo Product Management
Elena brings over 10 years’ experience in customer-facing roles for joint hardware-software solutions, spanning a wide variety of verticals in the industrial space. As a passionate applications expert, technical marketer, and product leader, Elena specializes in optimizing the overall user experience, creating accessible tools, and delivering value-added solutions. Prior to joining Humatics, Elena was at Digital Lumens where she was responsible for product management and at Instron, where she brought mechanical testing systems to market. Elena holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Rochester.
Sara Tuohey
Director of Business Development
Sara brings over 20 years of experience in new business and partner development to Humatics. Sara’s experience began with her first role in Silicon Valley where she was Oracle’s (Sun Microsystems) Integrated Sales and Partner Development Manager, building out go-to-market partnerships for startups and large technology companies alike. Sara is a global expert in partner ecosystems with extensive experience in strategic alliances, technology partnering, and channel development. She holds her Bachelor’s degree from Mills College.
Ben Rhodda
Director of Operations
Ben specializes in new product introduction and is a professionally trained Electronics Engineer. During his 25 year career he has brought over 50 products to market including from IoT, lighting, cellular communication, and data acquisition. Ben has worked for both multinational companies, such as Nortel and Fujitsu, as well as smaller startups like Way Systems, GlobalSpec and Bevi. He joined Humatics after spending a decade working for Philips Lighting responsible for new product introductions.
Patrick Mullins
Director of Test Engineering
Patrick brings over fifteen years of experience in product testing, spanning a wide variety of industries including data storage and consumer products for Fortune 500, private, and start-up companies. Prior to joining Humatics, Patrick was Director of Testing at SharkNinja delivering heated, beverage, and motorized products to market. Before SharkNinja, Patrick held senior quality and reliability positions at EMC (acquired by Dell) and SanDisk (acquired by Western Digital). In addition, Patrick worked within a Series C startup moving manufacturing to the US, reducing incident rates, and implementing cost saving initiatives. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University and a Masters degree from Fitchburg State University.
Chris Montoya
Director of Hardware Engineering
Chris’s background is primarily in product test and measurement, with additional experience in signal integrity and defense. He joined Humatics in 2015 as one of the original team members and is one of the longest serving employees at the company. At Humatics he has done a variety of technical roles ranging from antenna design to system architecture. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst.
Kim Karvonen
Senior Director of Mobility Sales
Kim has 25 years of global business and sales leadership experience, spanning from start-ups in robotics, vision technology and metrology, to structured multi-national corporations in engineered renewable raw materials for industrial manufacturing. His background includes building high-performing international sales teams and delivering results to solve critical business challenges. A native of Finland, he has worked and lived outside his home country his entire career – including the US, UK, The Netherlands and Italy. He holds a dual degree from Amsterdam and Helsinki.
Kelly Coates
Director of People Operations
Kelly joined Humatics in 2019 and leads the Human Resources team. She has worn many hats in her time as a people professional and has spent the past 8 years at various companies building solid foundations around employee engagement, compensation and benefits, organizational development, company culture and employee experience. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of New Hampshire.
Deondra Randle
Senior Customer Delivery Manager – Mobility
Deondra is a subject matter expert in railroad vehicle systems engineering. He has served in various engineering manager roles for multiple global rolling stock manufacturers; overseeing and controlling pertinent aspects of the vehicle integration process through design, commissioning and delivery efforts. Most recently he served as managing consultant of operations & maintenance for Network Rail Consulting where identifying and implementing initiatives to improve asset safety, performance, reliability, productivity and efficiency for transportation agencies internationally was his responsibility. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University.
John Constantine
Vice President of Engineering
John’s 20+ year engineering career includes delivering products to market and building and leading successful engineering teams. John has managed distributed teams across the globe including India, China, Israel, Costa Rica and Romania. Prior to joining Humatics, he delivered products in financial services, computer security, public affairs, and healthcare.
Eleanor Wilson
Principal Safety Engineer
Eleanor has worked as a systems, test, and safety engineer for 20 years in the nuclear power, rail control, and applied robotics engineering disciplines. She has led diverse projects such as development of custom vibration data collection systems, comprehensive environmental testing programs for regulatory compliance, and an automated navigation system for water transport vehicles. She received her bachelors of science in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Brigitte Davis
Director of Marketing
Brigitte brings over 20+ years of field and corporate marketing experience to Humatics. In her current role, Brigitte is responsible for both corporate and field marketing activities. She started her marketing career in the technology sector and never left. Several startup companies as well as agency experience round out her overall experience where she has driven creative marketing strategies, and established programs and activities for lead generation campaigns to generate market expansion and increase sales.
Chris Cheever
Director
Chris is a co-founder and partner at Fontinalis Partners. At Fontinalis, Chris is responsible for a wide range of critical processes ranging from deal sourcing and execution to corporate operations and business strategy. Prior to Fontinalis, Chris worked for LaunchCapital, a venture capital firm with offices in New Haven, Cambridge and San Francisco. At Launch, Chris analyzed, evaluated and executed early-stage principal investments. Previously, Chris worked in New York as an Associate at Highbridge Principal Strategies, a multi-billion-dollar private equity and mezzanine investment business within Highbridge Capital. He participated in due diligence, financial modeling and deal execution across various business sectors and types of transactions. Chris earned his MBA from the Yale School of Management and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard.
Dan Levine
Director
Dan is the managing partner of Tenfore Holdings. He has 6+ years experience working with Eddie Lampert overseeing, developing, and operating core and startup businesses, particularly within Sears Holdings, concentrating on eCommerce, mobile, social, machine learning, and local spaces. He has focused on multichannel experiences that leverage and link online, store, supply chain, pricing, inventory, merchandising, and analytics systems. Dan holds an AB from Harvard and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Tenfore Holdings is an investment management firm that provides operational value-added to growth-stage companies where technology plays a transformative role. The firm focuses on commerce and Big Data equity/debt investments where they can apply their operating experience and strategic relationships to enhance value. They have extensive experience operating at scale, and understand how to build smaller enterprises to scale. By providing capital, strategic guidance at the board level, and operational support to talented managers, Tenfore helps companies realize their full revenue, profit and market-value potential for the long-term.
Tom Lee
Director
Tom is a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1994 after several years of design and development work at Analog Devices and Rambus. Tom’s areas of research include CMOS radio frequency integrated circuit design and all types of analog circuitry, including high-speed radio frequency communications systems. He holds approximately 70 US patents and is the author of The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits and Planar Microwave Engineering, both from Cambridge University Press. He is a co-founder of Matrix Semiconductor (acquired by Sandisk), ZeroG Wireless (acquired by Microchip), and Ayla Networks. He holds SB, SM and ScD degrees in electrical engineering from MIT.
Aaron Whittemore
Director of Product and Strategy
Aaron brings well over a decade of engineering experience in the transit sector and is responsible for the strategic product direction for the mobility technology in the public transit sector. He previously served as the Director of Special Projects at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) where he worked under the General Manager on a variety of business transformation projects and led capital modernization projects for bus and transit systems. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and was selected as a Leadership Fellow in 2019 and was recognized as a Emerging Leader in Transportation from the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation. Prior to the MBTA, Aaron worked for over 10 years in complex system design and engineering serving as a Systems Engineering Leader with Raytheon on a variety of defense programs.
Douglas Breault
Director of Mobility Engineering
Doug is a multi-disciplined engineer with 15 years of experience creating highly valuable solutions and products that leverage his broad experience in mechanical engineering, software engineering, robotics, and data science. Prior to joining Humatics, Doug led teams deploying cutting-edge sensors in novel manners and developing industry leading test capabilities for iRobot and the Roomba product line. Before that, he researched thermoelectric devices and soft-bodied robot actuation using shape-memory alloys at Tufts University, was a design engineer for Lockheed Martin and while at NASA he focused on space shuttle missions and hardware for the International Space Station. He received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Norwich University.
Elena Mangano
Director of Mobility Engineering
Elena brings over 10 years’ experience in customer-facing roles for joint hardware-software solutions, spanning a wide variety of verticals in the industrial space. As a passionate applications expert, technical marketer, and product leader, Elena specializes in optimizing the overall user experience, creating accessible tools, and delivering value-added solutions. Prior to joining Humatics, Elena was at Digital Lumens where she was responsible for product management and at Instron, where she brought mechanical testing systems to market. Elena holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Rochester.
Sara Tuohey
Director of Business Development
Sara brings over 20 years of experience in new business and partner development to Humatics. Sara’s experience began with her first role in Silicon Valley where she was Oracle’s (Sun Microsystems) Integrated Sales and Partner Development Manager, building out go-to-market partnerships for startups and large technology companies alike. Sara is a global expert in partner ecosystems with extensive experience in strategic alliances, technology partnering, and channel development. She holds her Bachelor’s degree from Mills College.
Ben Rhodda
Director of Operations
Ben specializes in new product introduction and is a professionally trained Electronics Engineer. During his 25 year career he has brought over 50 products to market including from IoT, lighting, cellular communication, and data acquisition. Ben has worked for both multinational companies, such as Nortel and Fujitsu, as well as smaller startups like Way Systems, GlobalSpec and Bevi. He joined Humatics after spending a decade working for Philips Lighting responsible for new product introductions.
Patrick Mullins
Director of Test Engineering
Patrick brings over fifteen years of experience in product testing, spanning a wide variety of industries including data storage and consumer products for Fortune 500, private, and start-up companies. Prior to joining Humatics, Patrick was Director of Testing at SharkNinja delivering heated, beverage, and motorized products to market. Before SharkNinja, Patrick held senior quality and reliability positions at EMC (acquired by Dell) and SanDisk (acquired by Western Digital). In addition, Patrick worked within a Series C startup moving manufacturing to the US, reducing incident rates, and implementing cost saving initiatives. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University and a Masters degree from Fitchburg State University.
Chris Montoya
Director of Hardware Engineering
Chris’s background is primarily in product test and measurement, with additional experience in signal integrity and defense. He joined Humatics in 2015 as one of the original team members and is one of the longest serving employees at the company. At Humatics he has done a variety of technical roles ranging from antenna design to system architecture. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst.
Kim Karvonen
Senior Director of Mobility Sales
Kim has 25 years of global business and sales leadership experience, spanning from start-ups in robotics, vision technology and metrology, to structured multi-national corporations in engineered renewable raw materials for industrial manufacturing. His background includes building high-performing international sales teams and delivering results to solve critical business challenges. A native of Finland, he has worked and lived outside his home country his entire career – including the US, UK, The Netherlands and Italy. He holds a dual degree from Amsterdam and Helsinki.
Kelly Coates
Director of People Operations
Kelly joined Humatics in 2019 and leads the Human Resources team. She has worn many hats in her time as a people professional and has spent the past 8 years at various companies building solid foundations around employee engagement, compensation and benefits, organizational development, company culture and employee experience. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of New Hampshire.
Deondra Randle
Senior Customer Delivery Manager – Mobility
Deondra is a subject matter expert in railroad vehicle systems engineering. He has served in various engineering manager roles for multiple global rolling stock manufacturers; overseeing and controlling pertinent aspects of the vehicle integration process through design, commissioning and delivery efforts. Most recently he served as managing consultant of operations & maintenance for Network Rail Consulting where identifying and implementing initiatives to improve asset safety, performance, reliability, productivity and efficiency for transportation agencies internationally was his responsibility. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University.
John Constantine
Vice President of Engineering
John’s 20+ year engineering career includes delivering products to market and building and leading successful engineering teams. John has managed distributed teams across the globe including India, China, Israel, Costa Rica and Romania. Prior to joining Humatics, he delivered products in financial services, computer security, public affairs, and healthcare.
Eleanor Wilson
Principal Safety Engineer
Eleanor has worked as a systems, test, and safety engineer for 20 years in the nuclear power, rail control, and applied robotics engineering disciplines. She has led diverse projects such as development of custom vibration data collection systems, comprehensive environmental testing programs for regulatory compliance, and an automated navigation system for water transport vehicles. She received her bachelors of science in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Brigitte Davis
Director of Marketing
Brigitte brings over 20+ years of field and corporate marketing experience to Humatics. In her current role, Brigitte is responsible for both corporate and field marketing activities. She started her marketing career in the technology sector and never left. Several startup companies as well as agency experience round out her overall experience where she has driven creative marketing strategies, and established programs and activities for lead generation campaigns to generate market expansion and increase sales.
Founding Scientific Advisors
Founding
Scientific
Advisors
Bob Ballard
Founding Advisor
Bob is a former United States Navy officer, a professor of oceanography, and Director of the Center for Ocean Exploration at the University of Rhode Island. Best known for his work in marine geology and underwater archaeology, Bob is the discoverer of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic, the battleship Bismarck, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown. Bob worked for more than 30 years at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he now serves as scientist emeritus. He is founder and president of the Ocean Exploration Trust, which owns and operates the E/V Nautilus. Bob has received the Explorers Medal from the Explorers Club, the Hubbard Medal from the National Geographic Society, the Lindbergh Award, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Medal. His decades of experience operating robots in extreme environments advances Humatics’ commitment to developing precision robotic systems for daily use.
Dave Scott
Founding Advisor
Dave is an MIT-educated engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, former test pilot, and former NASA astronaut. Dave flew on the Gemini 8 and Apollo 9 missions, and as commander of Apollo 15, he became the seventh person to walk on the Moon. Before becoming an astronaut, Dave graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and joined the United States Air Force. He graduated from the Air Force Experimental Test Pilot School and Aerospace Research Pilot School. Dave retired from the Air Force in 1975 with the rank of colonel and more than 5,600 hours of flying time. Through his role in the development and operation of the Apollo guidance system, Dave was an early proponent of automated systems that fully embrace human skill and judgment.
Bob Ballard
Founding Advisor
Bob is a former United States Navy officer, a professor of oceanography, and Director of the Center for Ocean Exploration at the University of Rhode Island. Best known for his work in marine geology and underwater archaeology, Bob is the discoverer of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic, the battleship Bismarck, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown. Bob worked for more than 30 years at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he now serves as scientist emeritus. He is founder and president of the Ocean Exploration Trust, which owns and operates the E/V Nautilus. Bob has received the Explorers Medal from the Explorers Club, the Hubbard Medal from the National Geographic Society, the Lindbergh Award, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Medal. His decades of experience operating robots in extreme environments advances Humatics’ commitment to developing precision robotic systems for daily use.
Dave Scott
Founding Advisor
Dave is an MIT-educated engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, former test pilot, and former NASA astronaut. Dave flew on the Gemini 8 and Apollo 9 missions, and as commander of Apollo 15, he became the seventh person to walk on the Moon. Before becoming an astronaut, Dave graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and joined the United States Air Force. He graduated from the Air Force Experimental Test Pilot School and Aerospace Research Pilot School. Dave retired from the Air Force in 1975 with the rank of colonel and more than 5,600 hours of flying time. Through his role in the development and operation of the Apollo guidance system, Dave was an early proponent of automated systems that fully embrace human skill and judgment.
One of our advisors located the Titanic, and another walked on the moon. To say we are ambitious is an understatement. Join us if you want to be part of something spatial
We confront extraordinarily difficult problems head-on and enable greater efficiency through seamless human-robot-machine collaboration
We confront extraordinarily difficult problems head-on and enabling operation with greater efficiency through seamless human-robot-machine collaboration
We love our work and we also find inspiration all over: astronomy, sports, food, music, animals, travel, and more
We love our work and we also find inspiration all over: astronomy, sports, food, music, animals, travel, and more
Our company name is all about putting people first. We start with our employees
Rewards
Great work is rewarded! We provide competitive financial packages complete with equity, 401K, and life insurance. We also praise accomplishments and great work through awards, career growth opportunities and in our growing ‘Thank You’ channel on Slack
Wellness
We value you as a person and treat your wellbeing as a top priority. Recharge during our bi-weekly meditation sessions and in our onsite Wellness room and fitness center. Stay healthy with generous health benefits for you and your family. Also, because inspired minds need a break, we offer a generous vacation package and a flexible work environment
Lifelong Learning
With roots in research and academia, we love to learn new skills that will make us better in the office and in life. We arm our people with the tools to be successful by sponsoring everything from a workshop to a course or a conference
Rewards
Great work is rewarded! We provide competitive financial packages complete with equity, 401K, and life insurance. We also praise accomplishments and great work through awards, career growth opportunities and in our growing ‘Thank You’ channel on Slack
Wellness
We value you as a person and treat your wellbeing as a top priority. Recharge during our bi-weekly meditation sessions and in our onsite Wellness room and fitness center. Stay healthy with generous health benefits for you and your family. Also, because inspired minds need a break, we offer a generous vacation package and a flexible work environment
Lifelong Learning
With roots in research and academia, we love to learn new skills that will make us better in the office and in life. We arm our people with the tools to be successful by sponsoring everything from a workshop to a course or a conference
Office
Our modern offices are designed with our people (and robots) in mind, with plenty of natural light and open space to give you the opportunity to work and dream. We take our work and our snacks seriously. We offer commuter benefits, electrical vehicle charging, and bike lockers. We’re located in Waltham, MA, the birthplace of American precision and industry, and Huntsville, AL, the city that launched the first rocket ship to the moon
Office
Our modern offices are designed with our people (and robots) in mind, with plenty of natural light and open space to give you the opportunity to work and dream. We take our work and our snacks seriously. We offer commuter benefits, electrical vehicle charging, and bike lockers. We’re located in Waltham, MA, the birthplace of American precision and industry, and Huntsville, AL, the city that launched the first rocket ship to the moon
The Power to be You
We bring ourselves to work and we encourage you to do the same! We empower everyone to start any group or club: for example, diversity groups (i.e Womatics), Green Team and Food Club. We’re a group of enthusiasts who bring our passions to work be they coffee, astronomy, cats, or any or all of the above (just see our Slack)
The Power to be You
We bring ourselves to work and we encourage you to do the same! We empower everyone to start any group or club: for example, diversity groups (i.e Womatics), Green Team and Food Club. We’re a group of enthusiasts who bring our passions to work be they coffee, astronomy, cats, or any or all of the above (just see our Slack)
