Investments made | BeliefNetworks, Inc. |
Board seats | Relocality, PokitDok |
Advisory positions | MongoMusic, Relocality |
Entrepreneur
Hold several patents in datascience, signal processing, copy protection, semantics. architect on OSX, Vista OS.
Make History. Change people's perception of what is possible by building the impossible.
Making half assed software and not focusing on the essence.
Timing is everything. Never fall in love with your code. Keep going.
Ted is an engineering executive with extensive experience ranging from startups to public corporations. Focused mainly on growth scale computing he has held architect positions at both Apple and Microsoft and has held instrumental roles in several start-ups, including digidesign (IPO and acquired by Avid), Crystal River Engineering (acquired by Creative Labs), VP of R&D at MongoMusic (acquired by Microsoft) and Co-founder and CTO of BeliefNetworks (acquired by Benefitfocus). He was also the CTO of Spatializer Audio Labs (NASDAQ: SPAZ), a company specializing in digital signal processing solutions. He is on the IAB for the University of South Carolina Computer Science Department as well as the Center for Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning at the University of Tennessee. Mr. Tanner has published numerous articles in leading technical magazines and holds several patents in the areas of semantics, machine learning, signal processing and signal protection.