Philip DesAutels

Philip DesAutels is a researcher at Bentley University and Microsoft's manager of Academic Evangelism. Philip holds MS and BS degrees in Industrial and Management Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Philip was founder and CTO of Ereo, an image retrieval search company. He worked as Chief Scientist for Excite@Home and as a researcher on the staff of the World Wide Web consortium. As a Peace Corps volunteer, he served in Uzbekistan, where he lectured, established a micro-lending program, and installed part of the country's first email infrastructure. His research interests lie in the areas of sustainability, conscious capitalism and social entrepreneurship. Philip serves as a board member and advisor to numerous NGOs.