R&D Executive with over 15 years of experience has a broad understanding of the Wireless and Mobile industries. Strong entrepreneurial leadership experience, taking products from concept definition to market launch. Proven track record building cross-functional R&D teams, worked with industry leaders leaders such as Sun Microsystems and Samsung Electronics. Specialties: - Global R&D Management - Startup & corporate vision and strategy - New product conception & market launch - Innovation management, IP generation - Mobile & wireless technical expert (multimedia, embedded Systems) - UI, UX, Interactive Design, Human-Computer-Interaction

Co-founder @ Formlabs is developing an affordable high resolution 3D printer to enable designers, engineers, and makers to easily realize their dreams in beautiful physical form. From September 2011 to Present (4 years 2 months) Cambridge, MAResearch Assistant @ Fluid Interfaces Group Intel Fellow From September 2009 to Present (6 years 2 months) Advisory Board Member @ Vaultive is an innovative information-security startup http://www.vaultive.com/ From October 2008 to Present (7 years 1 month) Lead UI Designer @ Leading the User Interface and Interaction Design for a new breed of manufacturing robots. http://www.heartlandrobotics.com/ From January 2009 to September 2009 (9 months) Entrepreneur in Residence @ Envisioning and incubating new venture opportunities. Develop ideas and explore my next opportunity. Evaluate and advise on new venture deals. Supported portfolio companies in the fields of mobile & wireless technologies, including: product definitions, company positioning and market approach strategies JVP Studio is the creative and financial home of exceptional seed stage companies focusing on enterprise and media-related software. JVP Studio is the seed incubator of Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), one of Israel's leading venture capital funds. JVP Studio's managers have taken four companies public at a combined value of more than $3 billion. From January 2008 to August 2008 (8 months) Samsung Khronos Board Representative @ Initiated Samsung's gaining promoters status within the Khronos Group. Served on the board of promoters companies as Samsung's representative. Elected and served as OpenSL ES Marketing Chair The Khronos Group is a member-funded industry consortium focused on the creation of open standard APIs to enable the authoring and playback of dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices. (www.khronos.org) From January 2006 to November 2007 (1 year 11 months) Founder, General Manager, Mobile R&D @ Co-founded Samsung Telecom. Research Israel (STRI), Samsung Electronics Telecommunication Networks R&D Center in Israel. The focus for the new operation was mobile R&D innovation. Built and led STRI’s Mobile R&D organization, directly responsible for 85-person engineering team. Managing cross-functional product teams including R&D, QA, Art & Design, Product and PMO. Defined product and technology roadmap. Product owner for 6 S/W product lines for Samsung mobile phones, shipped on over 70 handsets models in the global market. Defined and conceptualized startup projects, assumed personal responsibility for operations and product market launch in Korea. From April 2003 to November 2007 (4 years 8 months) S/W Engineer @ Started as a student intern working on the DyanMID project, conducted design and implementation for a dynamic MIDlet creation and assembly system. The project was presented at the JavaOne - March 2002. San-Francisco, CA. - Dynamic MIDlet Creation Later on joined the Java Engineering Services group. Developed customized J2ME solutions for various tier-1 carriers and handset manufacturers From September 2001 to April 2003 (1 year 8 months) S/W Engineer @ Member of the CTO team, joined to accelerate research in different projects company wide. Later on assigned to the Integrated Systems Division. Designed and developed OmniLink – a distributed command & control system based on GSM/SMS, Ethernet and Telephony protocols. Trials conducted with TotenKraft Energy, Norway, commercial launch with Orad Systems in Israel. From 1999 to 2001 (2 years) Intelligence NCO, System Engineer @ In charge of technical intelligence work in the domain of computer vision, digital cartography, photogrammetry and GIS. Operated Mission Planning System, certified by Sanders/Lockheed Martin and the US Air-Force. From July 1996 to July 1999 (3 years 1 month)

Ph.D (ABD), Media Arts and Sciences @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology From 2011 to 2015 SM, Media Arts and Sciences @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology From 2009 to 2011 Executive Education., Building, Leading, and Sustaining the Innovative Organization @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management From 2007 to 2007 B.A, Computer Science and Business Administration @ IDC Herzliya From 2000 to 2003 Natan Linder is skilled in: User Interface, User Experience, Embedded Systems, Interaction Design, Innovation Management, Generation, Mobile Devices, Start-ups, Product Management, Mobile Applications, Entrepreneurship, Product Development, Human Computer..., Algorithms, Software Development, Python, Computer Science, Android, Java, User Interface Design, Software Engineering, Project Planning, Agile Methodologies, OpenGL, Product Design, Software Design, Distributed Systems, Enterprise Software