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`Elaine Chen
`Startup Veteran, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Consultant, MIT Senior
`Lecturer
`Greater Boston Area Management Consulting
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`ConceptSpring, MIT Sloan School of Management, MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge
`Current
`Rethink Robotics, Zeo, Inc., Zeemote, Inc.
`Previous
`Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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`Connect
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`https://www.linkedin.com/in/elaineychen
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`Posts
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`Published by Elaine
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`The 5 Most Important
`Characteristics for a New...
`October 24, 2015
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`7 Steps to a Customer
`Driven Product Strategy
`September 24, 2015
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`Business Strategy meets
`the Lean Startup: Staying...
`September 4, 2015
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`Background
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` Summary
`Executive level innovation and entrepreneurship consultant for teams building and growing businesses
`based on disruptive products and services. Proven track record in building great teams and developing
`great products. Exceptional strength in understanding customer needs and wants, and in translating
`them into actionable engineering requirements. Drawing on over 20 years of experience leading and
`managing highperformance crossfunctional teams and complex engineering programs to help clients
`realize their product vision with a fast time to market, and with elegant solutions that meet market
`needs.
`
`Specialties: innovation, entrepreneurship, Disciplined Entrepreneurship, Lean Startup, customer
`development, primary market research, product strategy, product planning, product development,
`engineering, hardware, software, connected devices, system architecture and design, system
`engineering and integration, cross functional leadership, strategy
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`Bill Aulet
`Senior Lecturer & MD, Martin Trust
`Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and
`Author, Disciplined Entrepreneurship
`Christina Chase
`Entrepreneur. Startup advisor. Co
`Director of MIT's SportsTech Center
`(STE@M). Lecturer in EECS & MechE.
`Erdin Beshimov
`Love underdogs and true champions
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`Michael Caine
`Director of Systems Engineering at
`Rethink Robotics
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`Scott Eckert
`CEO at Rethink Robotics
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`Jim Daly
`COO at Rethink Robotics
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`Rodney Brooks
` Experience
`CTO, Chairman at Rethink Robotics
`https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=ACgAAABLNNMBR8KrIrVOWm7FF0Rv5VNJPxhiv0c&authType=name&authToken=hCfL
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`1/11
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`Milan Shah
`VP Software Engineering at Rethink
`Robotics
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`Patricia (Trish) Cotter
`Entrepreneur in Residence at Martin
`Trust Center for Entrepreneurship at
`MIT
`Alex Goodwin
`VP Marketing and Sales, CoFounder
`at Padloc
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`Founder and Managing Director
`ConceptSpring
`April 2005 – Present (10 years 7 months) | Cambridge, Massachusetts
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`As Managing Director of my strategic innovation and entrepreneurship consulting business, I help CEOs
`and executives create product strategies, craft innovation management processes, and build and
`manage aggressive but achievable program plans to implement the company’s vision. Clients span
`diverse industries, including industrial automation, product design and manufacturing, retail innovation,
`fintech, enterprise software and more.
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`Example engagements:
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`• Helped a corporate customer with an existing enterprise software business reframe their product
`strategy from commodity priced point solutions to a high value, endtoend solution that address
`systematic customer pain points.
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`• Helped a startup customer bring a series of innovative products to market in the retail space, including
`a pointofsales (POS) kiosk and other smart store fixtures. Helped build a new hardware engineering
`team to design, develop and manufacture new hardware products. Worked with the CEO to develop an
`operating plan for the new business.
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`• Worked with a startup customer to design and build a new crossfunctional team from the ground up.
`Designed the leadership structure, defined roles and responsibilities, and helped get the recruitment
`process off the ground.
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`6 recommendations, including:
`Jonathan Hakim
`Cignifi Inc.
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`Jonathan Jenkins
`Founder & CEO at OrderWithMe
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`Elaine worked with my product team intensively
`over a three month period, during which she
`helped take an idea from concept... View
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`When OrderWithMe started working with Elaine,
`the ShopWithMe concept was still an idea. Elaine
`helped us define the product,... View
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`4 more recommendations
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`Senior Lecturer
`MIT Sloan School of Management
`January 2012 – Present (3 years 10 months) | Cambridge, Massachusetts
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`I teach entrepreneurship, leadership, primary market research and product development to engineering,
`MBA and EMBA students. Specific areas of focus include: Disciplined Entrepreneurship, corporate
`entrepreneurship, leadership and team development in a startup setting, lean startup, customer
`development, and innovation management in an existing enterprise.
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`3 recommendations, including:
`Erdin Beshimov
`Love underdogs and true champions
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`Maria Sterk
`Associate Director at MIT Sloan School …
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`I worked closely with Elaine in creating the very
`first MITx Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp. This
`program is a unique... View
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`I recently had the pleasure of working with Elaine
`Chen on a MIT Sloan executive education program
`focused on innovation and... View
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`1 more recommendation
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`Board Member
`MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge
`June 2015 – Present (5 months) | Cambridge, MA
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`Helping the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge inform, connect, and coach technology entrepreneurs
`enabling them to rapidly transform ideas into worldchanging companies.
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`VP Product Development
`Rethink Robotics
`May 2011 – December 2013 (2 years 8 months) | Boston, Massachusetts
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`Engineering and product development executive at Rethink Robotics. Led hardware and software
`development efforts that brought Baxter, a safe, teachable, affordable, and adaptable manufacturing
`robot, to market. Doubled the size of the engineering organization to over 50 full time team members in
`less than 2 years. Grew and nurtured the organization into a wellrounded, multidisciplinary team, with a
`customer focused approach to product development.
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`3 recommendations, including:
`Jeff Faneuff
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`Rodney Brooks
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`https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=ACgAAABLNNMBR8KrIrVOWm7FF0Rv5VNJPxhiv0c&authType=name&authToken=hCfL
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`Elaine Chen | LinkedIn
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`Senior Director of Software Engineering
`Elaine built the product development organization
`at Rethink Robotics and guided the management
`team to a successful Beta,... View
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`CTO, Chairman at Rethink Robotics
`Elaine knows how to get a reliable solid product
`out the door. The Baxter robot is an immensely
`complex product and in a... View
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`1 more recommendation
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`VP Engineering and Product Development
`Zeo, Inc.
`September 2009 – February 2011 (1 year 6 months)
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`Engineering and product development executive at Zeo, a startup company marketing a connected sleep
`measurement device in the consumer health and wellness space. Responsibilities included building and
`growing the engineering organization from the ground up, managing a Tier 1 Asian ODM partner, and
`managing all firmware, mobile and web software releases with inhouse staff.
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`1 recommendation
`John Shambroom
`Science and technology executive in the medical device industry
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`Elaine was instrumental in bringing a customer focus into every aspect of our business. She uses an
`integrated approach that leads to smart decisions. Her skills, tools, and insights are incomparable. View
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`VP Product Management
`Zeemote, Inc.
`April 2005 – August 2009 (4 years 5 months)
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`Coinventor of core technologies behind the flagship product, the Zeemote JS1 Controller – a gaming
`controller for mobile phones. Led product management activities for hardware and software product lines.
`Supported research and development efforts. Supported IP strategy by writing invention disclosures,
`finalizing patent applications, drafting claim trees and crafting responses to office actions.
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`1 recommendation
`Beth Marcus
`CEO & President at Playrific, Inc.
`
`Elaine is one of the brightest and most productive people I've ever worked with. She wears many hats in
`the technical and business arenas from product design and patents to marketing functions. She is also
`both creative and analytic and always finds... View
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`VP Engineering and other roles
`SensAble Technologies, Inc.
`February 1998 – August 2005 (7 years 7 months)
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`As VP Engineering, led a multidisciplinary team of more than 30 mechanical, research, software and
`quality assurance engineers. Managed software development for FreeForm, an organic CAD desktop
`software application comprising over 1.5 million lines of C++ code with a custom voxelbased geometry
`engine. Oversaw the delivery of several hardware and software product releases. Managed a large
`patent portfolio. Also founded the research team which focused on technical research and advanced
`development activities in haptics and in computational geometry algorithms, and led technical product
`management activities in other roles.
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`3 recommendations, including:
`Loren Shih
`Manager, Software Development at Am…
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`Michael McPartland
`Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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`Elaine is a rare find of engineer and leader that
`most people can only dream of being or working
`with, so it is difficult to... View
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`Elaine is probably the smartest person I have ever
`met. Her brain runs faster than a cheetah. She is
`incredibly creative and... View
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`1 more recommendation
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`Senior Engineer
`Design Continuum
`June 1996 – February 1998 (1 year 9 months)
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`Project manager and mechanical and systems engineer in a product design consulting environment.
`Focused on primary qualitative research as well as advanced engineering development in industries
`spanning consumer electronics, consumer packages goods, medical devices, robotics, automotive and
`more. Part of an awardwinning research team that excelled in qualitative and ethnographic research
`techniques.
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`https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=ACgAAABLNNMBR8KrIrVOWm7FF0Rv5VNJPxhiv0c&authType=name&authToken=hCfL
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`1 recommendation
`Noelle Dye
`Product Strategist / Experience Strategist
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`Elaine was critical to the growth and success of our strategy group at Continuuum, where she took on a
`large amount of responsibility for researching and developing advanced concepts for our key clients,
`while mentoring and motivating her peers to... View
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`Mechanical and Systems Engineer
`Exos Inc.
`June 1993 – June 1996 (3 years 1 month)
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`Led firmware and software efforts for haptics systems, including a force feedback joystick. Exos was
`acquired by Microsoft in 1996.
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` Education
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`Massachusetts Institute of Technology
`Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering
`1991 – 1993
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`Massachusetts Institute of Technology
`Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering
`1988 – 1991
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`Bringing a Hardware Product to Market: Navigating the Wild Ride from Concept
`to Mass Production
`(
`February 21, 2015
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`This book helps new hardware product teams save time and money when bringing their product to
`market. Teams will learn the steps in developing a connected hardware device for mass production,
`managing the transition from engineering to manufacturing and operations, and how to save time and
`money by avoiding common pitfalls.
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`Patents
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`Input device including digital force feedback apparatus
`United States 5,643,087
`Issued July 1, 1997
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`(
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`4 inventors:
`Beth Marcus
`CEO & President at Playrific, Inc.
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`Elaine Chen
`Startup Veteran, Innovation and Entrepr…
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`Ben An
`Program Manager/Mechanical Enginee…
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`Tim Osborne
`Engineering at Microsoft
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`Method and apparatus to create a complex tactile sensation
`United States 5,709,219
`Issued January 20, 1998
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`(
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`3 inventors:
`Elaine Chen
`Startup Veteran, Innovation and Entrepr…
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`Beth Marcus
`CEO & President at Playrific, Inc.
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`Brian Eberman
`President and COO at EnglishCentral
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`Force feedback joystick with digital signal processor controlled by host
`processor
`(
`United States 5,742,278
`Issued April 21, 1998
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`5 inventors, including:
`Elaine Chen
`Startup Veteran, Innovation and Entrepr…
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`Tim Osborne
`Engineering at Microsoft
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`Ben An
`Program Manager/Mechanical Enginee…
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`Paul DiLascia
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`Human interface input acceleration system
`United States 7,280,097
`Issued October 9, 2007
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`(
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`4 inventors:
`Elaine Chen
`Startup Veteran, Innovation and Entrepr…
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`Lorraine Wheeler
`President at Redstoke, LLC
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`Force reflecting haptic interface
`United States 7,411,576
`Issued August 12, 2008
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`(
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`6 inventors, including:
`Thomas Massie
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`Rob Podoloff
`Chief Technology Officer at Tekscan
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`Beth Marcus
`CEO & President at Playrific, Inc.
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`Alex Goodwin
`VP Marketing and Sales, CoFounder at…
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`Elaine Chen
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`Deepak Kapoor
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`https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=ACgAAABLNNMBR8KrIrVOWm7FF0Rv5VNJPxhiv0c&authType=name&authToken=hCfL
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`5/11
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`10/31/2015
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`Elaine Chen | LinkedIn
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`Startup Veteran, Innovation and Entrepreneurshi…
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`Human interface input acceleration system
`United States 7,649,522
`Issued January 19, 2010
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`(
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`4 inventors:
`Elaine Chen
`Startup Veteran, Innovation and Entrepr…
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`Lorraine Wheeler
`President at Redstoke, LLC
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`Mobile device customizer
`United States 7,652,660
`Issued January 26, 2010
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`(
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`3 inventors:
`Elaine Chen
`Startup Veteran, Innovation and Entrepr…
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`Beth Marcus
`CEO & President at Playrific, Inc.
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`Rob Podoloff
`Chief Technology Officer at Tekscan
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`Beth Marcus
`CEO & President at Playrific, Inc.
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`Lorraine Wheeler
`President at Redstoke, LLC
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`Method of remapping the input elements of a handheld device
`United States 7,669,770
`Issued March 2, 2010
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`(
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`3 inventors:
`Lorraine Wheeler
`President at Redstoke, LLC
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`Beth Marcus
`CEO & President at Playrific, Inc.
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`Elaine Chen
`Startup Veteran, Innovation and Entrepr…
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`Apparatus and methods for wrapping texture onto the surface of a virtual
`object
`(
`United States 7,889,209
`Issued February 15, 2011
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`3 inventors:
`Torsten Berger
`Software Engineer at MetaVR
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`Tod Shannon
`Subcontractor at MIT Lincoln Laborator…
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`Human Interface Input Acceleration System
`United States 7,932,892
`Issued April 26, 2011
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`(
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`4 inventors:
`Elaine Chen
`Startup Veteran, Innovation and Entrepr…
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`Lorraine Wheeler
`President at Redstoke, LLC
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`Elaine Chen
`Startup Veteran, Innovation and Entrepr…
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`Rob Podoloff
`Chief Technology Officer at Tekscan
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`Beth Marcus
`CEO & President at Playrific, Inc.
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`Sensor mapping
`(
`United States 8,050,891
`Issued November 1, 2011
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`4 inventors:
`Rob Podoloff
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`Paul Calnan
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`https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=ACgAAABLNNMBR8KrIrVOWm7FF0Rv5VNJPxhiv0c&authType=name&authToken=hCfL
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`6/11
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`10/31/2015
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`Elaine Chen | LinkedIn
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`Chief Technology Officer at Tekscan
`Elaine Chen
`Startup Veteran, Innovation and Entrepr…
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`Mobile Software Consultant
`Beth Marcus
`CEO & President at Playrific, Inc.
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`Mobile device customizer
`United States 8,063,880
`Issued November 22, 2011
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`(
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`3 inventors:
`Elaine Chen
`Startup Veteran, Innovation and Entrepr…
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`Beth Marcus
`CEO & President at Playrific, Inc.
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`Human interface input acceleration system
`United States 8,144,122
`Issued March 27, 2012
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`(
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`4 inventors:
`Elaine Chen
`Startup Veteran, Innovation and Entrepr…
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`Lorraine Wheeler
`President at Redstoke, LLC
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`Lorraine Wheeler
`President at Redstoke, LLC
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`Rob Podoloff
`Chief Technology Officer at Tekscan
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`Beth Marcus
`CEO & President at Playrific, Inc.
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`Apparatus and methods for wrapping texture onto the surface of a virtual
`object
`(
`United States 8,174,535
`Issued May 8, 2012
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`3 inventors:
`Torsten Berger
`Software Engineer at MetaVR
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`Tod Shannon
`Subcontractor at MIT Lincoln Laborator…
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`Accessory device for mobile host device
`United States 8,294,668
`Issued October 23, 2012
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`(
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`4 inventors:
`Rob Podoloff
`Chief Technology Officer at Tekscan
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`Elaine Chen
`Startup Veteran, Innovation and Entrepr…
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`Lorraine Wheeler
`President at Redstoke, LLC
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`Elaine Chen
`Startup Veteran, Innovation and Entrepr…
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`Beth Marcus
`CEO & President at Playrific, Inc.
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`Haptically enabled dental modeling system
`United States 8,359,114
`Issued January 22, 2013
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`(
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`11 inventors, including:
`Bob Steingart
`Clevel Marketing, Product Managemen…
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`Curt Rawley
`High Tech Executive Consultant
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`Joe Wisnewski
`Director of Engineering at 3D Systems
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`Dave Girard
`Vice President of Engineering at E.J. W…
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`Apparatus and methods for wrapping texture onto the surface of a virtual
`object
`(
`United States 8,456,484
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`https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=ACgAAABLNNMBR8KrIrVOWm7FF0Rv5VNJPxhiv0c&authType=name&authToken=hCfL
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`7/11
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`10/31/2015
`Issued June 4, 2013
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`3 inventors:
`Torsten Berger
`Software Engineer at MetaVR
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`Tod Shannon
`Subcontractor at MIT Lincoln Laborator…
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`Elaine Chen | LinkedIn
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`Elaine Chen
`Startup Veteran, Innovation and Entrepr…
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`Sensor Mapping
`(
`United States 8,957,852
`Issued February 17, 2015
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`4 inventors:
`Rob Podoloff
`Chief Technology Officer at Tekscan
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`Paul Calnan
`Mobile Software Consultant
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`Elaine Chen
`Startup Veteran, Innovation and Entrepr…
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`Beth Marcus
`CEO & President at Playrific, Inc.
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`Apparatus and methods for adjusting a texture wrapped onto the surface of a
`virtual object
`(
`United States 8,963,958
`Issued February 24, 2015
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`4 inventors:
`Torsten Berger
`Software Engineer at MetaVR
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`Elaine Chen
`Startup Veteran, Innovation and Entrepr…
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`Tod Shannon
`Subcontractor at MIT Lincoln Laborator…
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`Bob Tipton
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`User interfaces for robot training
`United States 8,965,576
`Issued February 24, 2015
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`(
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`8 inventors, including:
`Elaine Chen
`Startup Veteran, Innovation and Entrepr…
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`Christopher Buehler
`Principal SDE at Microsoft
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`Force reflecting haptic interface
`United States 8,994,643
`Issued March 31, 2015
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`(
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`6 inventors, including:
`Thomas Massie
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`Rodney Brooks
`CTO, Chairman at Rethink Robotics
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`Matthew Williamson
`Director, Technology Development at R…
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`Alex Goodwin
`VP Marketing and Sales, CoFounder at…
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`Elaine Chen
`Startup Veteran, Innovation and Entrepr…
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`Deepak Kapoor
`Senior Manager, Mechanical Engineeri…
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`User interfaces for robot training
`United States 8,996,167
`Issued March 31, 2015
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`(
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`7 inventors, including:
`Natan Linder
`Research Assistant and Ph.D Candidat…
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`Rodney Brooks
`CTO, Chairman at Rethink Robotics
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`Mike Sussman
`Director, Hardware Engineering at Locu…
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`bruce blumberg
`Computer Games Professional
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`https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=ACgAAABLNNMBR8KrIrVOWm7FF0Rv5VNJPxhiv0c&authType=name&authToken=hCfL
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`Cantonese
`Native or bilingual proficiency
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`Languages
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`nglish
`Native or bilingual proficiency
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`Additional Info
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`Interests
`Robotics, Maker movement, 3D Printing, Consumer electronics, Saas, Mobile, Wireless
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` Honors & Awards
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`Additional Honors & Awards
`Elaine led the Rethink Robotics product development team that developed Baxter, a safe, teachable
`humanoid manufacturing robot that won gold in the Productivity Tools section of the 2013 Edison
`Awards.
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`Elaine was part of the Zeo team that won bronze in the Electronics and Computers section of the 2010
`Edison Awards.
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`Elaine was part of the Design Continuum team that helped develop the Moen Revolution Showerhead.
`This program won the Industrial Designers of America (IDSA)'s IDEA Gold Award for Design Research in
`2005.
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` Volunteer Experience & Causes
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`Professional Advisor, Martin Trust Center for MIT
`Entrepreneurship
`Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
`January 2011 – Present (4 years 10 months) | Education
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`Helping aspiring entrepreneurs get started, do customer development, iterate using lean startup
`techniques, and work on finding product/market fit
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`Causes Elaine cares about:
`• Education
`• Environment
`• Poverty Alleviation
`• Science and Technology
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` Organizations
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`Additional Organizations
`MIT Sloan School of Management; Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
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`Principal UX/UI Designer
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`“Miri Bauman
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`Miri is a very experienced and exceedingly talented UI/UX designer. She has a huge
`range in her ability to drive the design process from end to end. She is one of those rare
`individuals who is equally excellent with information architecture, interaction design and
`graphical treatments. Her perceptiveness and empathy with customers and end users helps
`her embrace business... more
`May 12, 2015, Elaine managed Miri indirectly at Rethink Robotics
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`Director Systems Engineering
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`“Michael Caine
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`Mike and I worked together during the most critical time of the development of the
`company's flagship product, the Baxter robot. Mike led the mechanical team who worked
`very closely with the embedded team, the controls team and the manufacturing and
`operations team to execute a very aggressive program schedule to bring the robot from
`concept to first customer ship and well... more
`June 11, 2014, Elaine managed Michael at Rethink Robotics
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`Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager
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`“Adam Shayevitz M.B.A.
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`Adam and I worked together at Rethink Robotics, where he set up the supply base for
`prototype and production runs for Baxter, a highly complex robotic product with many
`electromechanical components and a large number of custom parts. Adam's philosophy of
`engaging vendors in DFM/DFA design reviews early in the engineering process was
`instrumental in effecting a smooth... more
`May 1, 2014, Elaine worked with Adam at Rethink Robotics
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`Software Engineer, User Interface
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`“Marissa Mocenigo
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`Marissa joined Rethink when we were scaling up feature development rapidly to expand
`Baxter's capabilities in the field. She came up to speed right away and contributed to an
`incremental software release that was launched just a few weeks after she joined the
`company. Marissa naturally thinks and works cross functionally, transitioning easily
`between conversations about UX... more
`May 1, 2014, Elaine managed Marissa indirectly at Rethink Robotics
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`Director of Software Engineering
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`“Jeff Faneuff
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`Jeff joined Rethink at a time when we had just brought up our first hardware prototype.
`The software platform was very nascent. Jeff took what was essentially a team working on
`an advanced development project, and transformed it into a mature software development
`organization. He made over virtually every aspect of software development, from agile
`processes, to... more
`December 11, 2013, Elaine managed Jeff at Rethink Robotics
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