Yobie Benjamin is a Co-founder/COO, CTO, Advisor, Angel Investor, Entrepreneur, Conservation/Environmental Activist, Coder and Biohacker, recently honored as a 2015 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum (commonly known as the Davos Conference).

As Co-founder of Avegant, Yobie has advanced the development of a next generation wearable device - Avegant Glyph - The Smart Headphone and raised $1.5MM on Kickstarter and $9.4MM on Series A and A1. As an advisor for Skully, Yobie has raised $3.4MM via crowdfunding and $11.0MM.

Yobie is currently a volunteer civilian advisor for NASA AMES Collaboration Labs.

Previously, Yobie was Global Chief Technology Officer at Citigroup ICG/GTS and Chairman of GTS Research Development Innovation & Learning Centres at Citigroup | Institutional Clients Group / Global Transaction Services, with a focus on projects such as Citi Commerce Server, the backend to Google Wallet and Apple Pay.

He was the Founder & CEO and coder of a progressive e-commerce company, GoodStorm.com and now serves as GoodStorm Brand President and SVP of Business Development at Zazzle.com. Yobie is a Former Partner of Ernst & Yong LLP and former Chief Knowledge Officer and Director of Enterprise Security Services at Cambridge Technology Partners' Management Labs.

Awards:

CNN Top 10 Technology Products of 2014 - Avegant Glyph and Skully Systems AR1 Helmets

2015 Technology Pioneer Award from the World Economic Forum

Additional Highlights:

Successful venture investor; innovator in the technology, retail and consumer products space; fintech; restaurateur; consumer product design; next generation KYC/AML and anti-fraud systems; software architect and engineer; writer; social activist.

Personal Interests:

Synthetic biology, bioinformatics, games and game theory, all things food and wine, progressive politics, technology, music, social justice

Companies:

Avegant, Skully, Nixie, Skyport, Zen Payroll, Token.io, Steath IoT Security Company, Indie Bio, Wearable World, Wildlife Works