Rob Meadows (born December 26, 1976) is an American

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who founded the AI Foundation, Originate, and Lumitrend. He has also served as a CTO and Advisor to several other technology startups and has spoken about

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at conferences such as CES and South by Southwest.

Personal life

Meadows was born in

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and lived in

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before his family moved to

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, where he spent most of his childhood. Meadows graduated from

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in Las Vegas in 1995. He then attended the

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where he received a bachelor's degree in computer engineering in 1999 and a master's degree in

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in 2000. During his time at Arizona, he worked at IBM and was President of

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. After graduating, Meadows moved to Silicon Valley to work for the

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Slam Dunk Networks.

Career

In 2001, Meadows founded Meadows Consulting Corporation (MCC) which provided mobile development services for Fortune 500 companies including Qualcomm, Amazon, and Amadeus. In 2003, Meadows co-founded Lumitrend and was CEO of the company until its acquisition by

Asurion Asurion, LLC is a privately held company based in Nashville, Tennessee, that provides insurance for smartphones, tablets, consumer electronics, appliances, satellite receivers and jewelry. In 2014, the company operated in 14 countries and had 4 ...

in August 2006. Post acquisition, Meadows became the Director of Products at Asurion. In 2007, Meadows founded Originate and served as CEO until 2016. While at Originate, he held several roles at portfolio companies including Co-founder and Chairman of THRIVE, Executive at NewAer, CTO of Stateless Networks, and CTO and board member of Best of All Worlds. In 2017, Meadows co-founded the AI Foundation and currently serves as its CEO. The AI Foundation's mission is to move humanity forward through the power of decentralized, trusted, personal AI, while anticipating and counteracting the risks of AI’s proliferation in society.

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