Don Mathis

Executive and Director in New York

Don Mathis

Executive and Director in New York

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A technology entrepreneur and investor, Don focuses on ventures applying machine learning at scale, cognitive computing and emerging artificial intelligence.

Currently, Don is the GM of Growth for Comcast NBCUniversal. Prior experiences: advising a counter-extremism public-private initiative focused on social media messaging designed to counter the online recruitment of Islamic jihadist groups; Co-founder & Director with Echelon.AI, a New York City start-up leveraging Artificial Intelligence; a Director with Cogint, Inc. [Nasdaq: COGT], an information solutions provider focused on the multi-billion dollar data-fusion market; and an Advisor / investor with Omniangle Technologies, a privately-held cybersecurity firm specializing in business intelligence, cyber fraud detection and forensic analysis. Don is also the Co-Founder and was the CEO of Kinetic, a social data and technology platform partnered with Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

Don's experience includes service with the US Navy, holding qualifications in expeditionary combat logistics and anti-terrorism, and where he began his career as a P-3 anti-submarine patrol squadron Flight Communications Officer (Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information [TS/SCI] security clearance held).

Don was selected to be a “Rock 100” Entrepreneur by the Harvard Business School Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, and is an Advisor to the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab). He is a member of YPO in NYC, and he has served on a number of not-for-profit boards.

  • Work
    • GM Growth Comcast NBCUniversal
  • Education
    • MBA, Harvard University
    • BA, Vassar College