About Idealab
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Bill Gross
Chief Executive Officer
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Bill Gross founded Idealab in March 1996 and serves as the company's Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. Bill founded
Idealab to create and build successful businesses that capitalize on innovations in areas with significant growth opportunities, including the Internet.
A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab. In high school, he founded Solar Devices, a firm
that sold plans and kits for solar energy products. In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new
loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. After graduating from college, Bill and his brother Larry started GNP Development,
Inc., which made a natural language product for Lotus 1-2-3 called HAL. In 1985, Lotus Development Corporation acquired GNP and Bill
became a software entrepreneur at Lotus Development. In 1991, Bill started Knowledge Adventure, an educational software publisher
that grew to be the third largest educational software publisher in the world and was eventually sold to Cendant Software
and is now a division of Havas Interactive, which is owned by Vivendi.
Bill serves on the boards of directors of numerous companies. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of
Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. Bill received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.
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Chief Operating Officer and President
Debbie Chen
General Counsel
Craig Chrisney
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Tom Hughes
Chief Design Officer
Kristen Ding
VP, Design
Wes Ferrari
VP, Information Technologies
Tanya Peterson
VP, Human Resources
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