More than 25 years in product and technology development in consumer and industrial electronics, healthcare and Internet of Things. Experience in multi-national corporations including HTC, Ericsson and Sony Ericsson, and small business consulting, teaching, startup acceleration and entrepreneurship. Tom has been awarded more than 30 patents. He leads RIoT Labs at HQ Raleigh and co-instructs Product Innovation Lab, a Forbes award winning multi-disciplinary course in innovation and entrepreneurship at NC State University. Previously he served an executive leadership role at the ASSIST Center, a National Science Foundation sponsored effort to create wearable electronics for healthcare monitoring.