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Ronjon Nag
Co-founded Lexicus (sold: Motorola) and Cellmania (sold: BlackBerry). Advisor to Vocal-IQ (sold: Apple). Cambridge, MIT, Stanford. Background in AI, speech rec.
Co-founded Lexicus (sold: Motorola) and Cellmania (sold: BlackBerry). Advisor to Vocal-IQ (sold: Apple). Cambridge, MIT, Stanford. Background in AI, speech rec.
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Experience
Advisor
Advisor
VocalIQ
Advisor
Advisor
MIT Alumni Angels of Northern California
Board Member
Embee Mobile
Board Member
Board Member
MIT Club of Northern California - Tech
Board Member
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Cellmania
Founder, CEO
Invented first mobile app stores in 1999. Successfully sold to RIM (BlackBerry).
Exit
Lexicus (Motorola)
Founder, CEO and CoFounder
Invented first handwriting, speech and predictive text interfaces for mobile phones. Successfully sold to Motorola
Advisor
Brightswitch
Founder, Founder Director
Brightswitch makes smart light switches powered by Android
Founder
Advisor
Board Member
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Education
About
Achievements
Awarded IET Mountbatten Medal at the Royal Institution for contributions to smartphones.
Firsts:
• First laptop with speech recognition built-in (Apricot, 1984)
• First selling cursive handwriting recognition (Lexicus, 1991)
• First speech recognition phones (with Lexicus/Motorola, 1996)
• First large-vocabulary Chinese speech recognition (Lexicus 1996)
• First Chinese predictive text system on a phone (Lexicus 1997)
• First predictive text systems in 40 languages on Motorola phones, (Lexicus 1997)
• First touch screen mobile phone with handwriting recognition (Lexicus1999)
• First combined mobile search engine and directory (Cellmania, 2000)
• First private label downloadable operator billable apps store (Cellmania, 2000)
• First BlackBerry Operator Billing apps store (Cellmania,2010)
• First Cloud Neural Network Artificial Intelligence System (Ersatz Labs, 2014)
• First Throwable 360 Ball Camera (Bounce Imaging, 2015)
• First Android powered smart light switch (Brightswitch 2017)
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