Damion Hänkejh
Smithsonian Laureate CTO, investor, philanthropist
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Damion Hänkejh invented Internet customer service before IBM even coined the term eCommerce. Under his direction, the New York-based seed accelerator he founded, Ingk Labs, developed and deployed InstantService -- the first carrier-class Internet telecommunications platform for live agent customer service. InstantService was acquired by Oracle in a $1 billion roll-up.
Ingk Labs continues to build on a successful legacy with the development of disruptive technologies and investment in early-stage companies. Along with Craig Alberino and Lorenzo Thione, Damion is focused on advising select startups for Ingk Labs.
Hänkejh was honored as a Smithsonian Laureate for his work as CTO of Virtual Operating Room (now Swedish Medical), a pioneering research project at the nexus of medicine, robotics and technology which set the stage for the first fully accredited virtual operating rooms worldwide.
He studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT with an emphasis on Massively Parallel Computing Architectures, Machine Intelligence and Physics.