Kurt Heaton is an accomplished high-tech engineering executive with a passion for fostering new product ideas. With extensive experience as an intrapreneur, Kurt has demonstrated success in leading teams to invent, build, and ship breakthrough products. He is an expert at delivering superb products on accelerated schedules with wide-ranging experience in hardware, software, user interfaces, and manufacturing. Kurt is also an accomplished coach and mentor to high-performance teams, providing a wide breadth of engineering, manufacturing, and management expertise. He has managed large teams, totaling 80+ employees, and multimillion-dollar budgets, growing new businesses from startup to generating millions in revenues.

One of Kurt's crowning achievements was leading hardware development for the world's first digital video recorder at TiVo. He also championed the 4K BOLT Unified Entertainment Center, winning a CES innovation award and helping to secure $1.6 billion in royalties. Kurt also proposed a 3D Graphics Workstation at Silicon Graphics, which developed into a $600 million business. He has a professional interest in the Internet of Things, virtual reality, educational toys, audio, and voice recognition, with 14 granted patents and four outstanding.