With a background in software engineering and programming, Ken has been a thought leader and hands-on developer in Consumer Electronics since creating his first video game on an Atari system at age 16. After getting his EECS degree at UC Berkeley, Ken built a high-performance Smalltalk GUI platform for the Momenta pen-based computer. Then, Ken went back to video games and developed groundbreaking full-motion-video games for several generations of the SEGA video game consoles at Digital Pictures. Using his background in video games as well as his experience with the Internet at UC Berkeley, Ken co-founded Planetweb with Kamran Elahian and was its President and CEO from 2000 to 2009. In 2009, Ken sold Planetweb to Monotype Imaging. At MTI he was responsible for Planetweb`s SpectraWorks software, a hardware- and OS-independent suite of technologies for developing embedded graphical user interfaces quickly and inexpensively. Almost 100 Million Consumer Electronics devices are powered by SpectraWorks. Now with 473 Technology, Ken builds iOS and Android Apps as well as the User Experience for embedded systems. Ken has been awarded six U.S. patents.
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