Atigeo Adds Heavyweights to Board, R&D

Bellevue, WA-based Atigeo, a data-intelligence firm, announced today that Joe Abrams has joined its board of directors. Abrams was the co-founder of Intermix, the company that developed MySpace. The move comes on the heels of Atigeo’s hiring of Oliver Downs, formerly of Mindset Media and Inrix, as chief scientist earlier this month. The company’s board also includes Nathaniel Brown, former CFO of Vulcan, and John Rindlaub, CEO of Wells Fargo’s Pacific Northwest region.

Author: Gregory T. Huang

Greg is a veteran journalist who has covered a wide range of science, technology, and business. As former editor in chief, he overaw daily news, features, and events across Xconomy's national network. Before joining Xconomy, he was a features editor at New Scientist magazine, where he edited and wrote articles on physics, technology, and neuroscience. Previously he was senior writer at Technology Review, where he reported on emerging technologies, R&D, and advances in computing, robotics, and applied physics. His writing has also appeared in Wired, Nature, and The Atlantic Monthly’s website. He was named a New York Times professional fellow in 2003. Greg is the co-author of Guanxi (Simon & Schuster, 2006), about Microsoft in China and the global competition for talent and technology. Before becoming a journalist, he did research at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. He has published 20 papers in scientific journals and conferences and spoken on innovation at Adobe, Amazon, eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other organizations. He has a Master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.