Michael O'Connor is a technology expert with broad experience and a deep understanding of hard, soft, and UX technologies. He has a proven track record of envisioning bellwether products and their downstream implications with the best in Silicon Valley. O'Connor's expertise was born of sensors, DSP, and systems in the defense industry. His career grew and gained a focus on mobile technologies in the computer big bang companies, Apple and Intel. It gained breadth and depth with his roles as both an intra and entrepreneur in start-ups across a range of technologies, and at Nokia/Microsoft, it circled back again to the creative edge of mobility, sensors, and systems.

O'Connor has served in CTO/VP Technology/Director roles and provided technology strategy and advanced R&D leadership for joint venture teams multi-geographically. Furthermore, he has managed technology pathfinding and venture due-diligence for 18+ investments, 26+ pending patents in diverse technologies, Experience on 3 corporate & 2 community boards, and led 4 Intel University research projects ($1.5M over 7 years) in mobile and wearable devices.

His specialties include consumer electronics, mobile devices, tablets, smartphones, wearable devices, product conceptualization, product definition, Intellectual Property, Patents, User Interface, User Experience, DSP, IC design, IC fabrication, semiconductor fab process technologies, image processing, software development, silicon fab process, mobile displays, chipsets, sensors, context-aware processing, goal-based processing, smart matter.