Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Jim is the Head Builder @ Thorn, Director & co-founder of the Smart Tech Foundation. Before that, he was the Head Builder @ Invisibly & served as a Director & Chair of the Technical Task Force @ Thorn.

Prior, he was Chief Scientist @ Doppler Labs, CTO @ Metabiota, co-founder, CTO & CEO @ Attributor (acq. Digimarc 2012), co-founder & Director @ Anchor Intelligence (acq. Comscore 2010), a consultant @ Facebook working on their ad targeting systems (2006), CEO @ Moreover Technologies (acq. Verisign 2005), co-founder & CTO @ Outride (acq. Google 2001).

Jim was a Research Scientist @ Xerox PARC & Chair of the WWW Consortium's Web Characterization Activity. @ Xerox PARC he worked with the User Interface Research (Dr. Stuart Card Manager) & Internet Ecologies (Dr. Bernardo Huberman Manager) groups which lead to dozens of patents & the publishing of "The Law of Surfing" in Science.

He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His dissertation, "Characterizing World Wide Web Ecologies" was one of the earliest dedicated to empirically understanding the dynamics of the Web. Jim pioneered the field of online surveying by creating GVU's WWW User Surveys in 1993. A firm believer in the power of the Commons, his research paper, "Characterizing Browsing Strategies in the World-Wide Web" formed the basis for online analytics & has invalidated tens of millions of dollars of patent lawsuits.

Jim graduated Cum Laude in Psychology from the University of Colorado. While there he worked on prototyping the first uses of the Web within NASA.

Outside of work, Jim spent over a dozen years as a Senior Patroller with the National Ski Patrol & Northern California Search & Rescue. He is a certified yoga teacher in Hindu & Tibetan lineages.