Thomas Chung

We spend 90% of our time in built environments, which consume a startling two-thirds of the world’s electricity production. Half of that energy is spent serving no useful purpose. Verdigris has been building an artificial intelligence truly capable of understanding device-level electricity consumption and usage in buildings for the first time. We see this as a disruptive yet critical step toward creating ambient intelligence – the idea in the not-so-distant future, buildings will be autonomous, efficient and sustainable environments responsive to their inhabitants.

http://www.verdigris.co/
Accelerated at http://startx.stanford.edu/ and http://www.founder.org/

Career highlights:

* Cofounder at Verdigris Technologies.

* COO at The Playforge. Oversaw strategic direction, studio operations and product management. The Playforge became a top grossing mobile application developer with over 45M downloads and 3B sessions served. It was acquired by Saban Brands, an affiliate of Saban Capital Group in 2012.

* Director of Partnerships at Digital Chocolate. Digital Chocolate was a venture backed a casual and social game developer founded by Trip Hawkins, founder of Electronic Arts and The 3DO Company.

* Computer Sciences at University of Texas at Austin