Biography:Meredith Perry
Meredith Perry | |
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| Born | August 5, 1989 Princeton, New Jersey |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | CEO, Elemind Technologies, Inc. |
| Known for | Invention of ultrasonic wireless power |
| Board member of | Elemind Technologies, Inc., J. Craig Venter Institute |
| Parent(s) | Arthur Perry, Bedonna Weiss Perry |
Meredith Perry (born August 5, 1989) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and scientist, most well-known for the invention of uBeam, a wireless charging system based on ultrasound.[1][2] Perry is currently[when?] the co-founder and CEO of Elemind[3][4], a company developing noninvasive neurotechnology, [5] and also serves on the Board of the J. Craig Venter Institute.[6]
Biography
Career
Perry studied paleobiology and astrobiology at the University of Pennsylvania and conducted astrobiology research with the NASA Ames Research Center and the NASA Astrobiology Institute. She is a NASA Astrobiology Institute Research Scholarship Recipient and NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Recipient. She co-authored two astrobiology research papers with Christopher McKay of NASA Ames Research Center.[7]
Perry won the University of Pennsylvania's Invention Competition,[8] "PennVention" in 2011 for her ultrasonic wireless power transmission system, which she named "uBeam". Perry founded uBeam in 2011 and raised $40M from Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Mark Cuban, Marissa Mayer and other prominent investors.[citation needed] She stepped down as CEO in 2018 after the company moved from trying to build its own products to licensing its technology for other companies to use.[9]
Perry announced through a tweet in 2019[10] that she is developing a new neurotechnology with Ed Boyden, and subsequently announced in 2020 a new company co-founded for this purpose, Elemind Technologies.[11] [12]
Awards and recognition
Perry was recognized as one of Fast Company's "Most Creative People",[13] and has been included in Fortune's “40 Under 40” Mobilizers,[14] Forbes ' “30 Under 30”,[15] and Vanity Fair's “The New Establishment”.[16] Perry is the recipient of Elle magazine's Genius Award.[17]
References
- ↑ "Wireless power transfer". Canadian Patents Database. Canadian Intellectual Property Office. https://ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/2836784/summary.html. Patent status listed as "Dead Application" as of 2019-09-04.
- ↑ "She's an inventor. She's 25. And she wants to make true wireless charging a reality". https://fortune.com/2014/12/30/meredith-perry-ubeam/.
- ↑ https://elemindtech.com/team/
- ↑ https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ma/001437467
- ↑ http://www.elemindtech.com/team/
- ↑ "Meredith Perry". https://www.jcvi.org/about/meredith-perry.
- ↑ Tanaka, Zuki; Perry, Meredith; Cooper, George; Tang, Suning; McKay, Christopher P.; Chen, Bin (August 1, 2012). "Near-Infrared (NIR) Raman Spectroscopy of Precambrian Carbonate Stromatolites with Post-Depositional Organic Inclusions". Applied Spectroscopy 66 (8): 911–916. doi:10.1366/11-06523. PMID 22800768. Bibcode: 2012ApSpe..66..911T.
- ↑ "Team with wireless charger". 2011. https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blog/peter-key/2011/04/team-with-wireless-charger-for.html.
- ↑ Constine, Josh (September 21, 2018). "UBeam's wireless power's CEO Meredith Perry steps aside amidst B2B pivot". Tech Crunch. https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/20/ubeam/.
- ↑ "Tweet". https://twitter.com/meredithperry/status/1186020591607996416.
- ↑ "Elemind Technologies, Inc.". February 2021. https://www.linkedin.com/company/elemind.
- ↑ http://www.elemindtech.com/team/
- ↑ "Meet Meredith Perry, one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People 2014". https://www.fastcompany.com/person/meredith-perry.
- ↑ "More under 40s: Mobilizers". https://fortune.com/2012/10/11/more-under-40s-mobilizers/.
- ↑ Helman, Christopher. "Forbes 30 Under 30 In The Energy Sector". https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2016/01/04/30-under-30-in-the-energy-sector/.
- ↑ Bilton, Nick (8 September 2015). "The New Establishment 2015". Vanity Fair. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/photos/2015/09/new-establishment-list-2015.
- ↑ Plattner, Seth; Davis, Allison P.; Straut, Catherine; Moody, Elyse; Kapp, Diana; Harman, Justine (June 29, 2012). "Genius Awards 2012". https://www.elle.com/life-love/society-career/genius-awards-2012.
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