Amplifying Human Potential
Our Team
In everything that we do at Leverege, we believe in amplifying human potential. We are constantly asking: how can we help organizations to achieve more with less effort, and enable them to do what was previously unimaginable?
We’re a fast-paced, curious, collaborative team that loves new technologies. We believe that IoT has the potential to significantly impact billions of lives for the better, and we want to help make that happen.
Eric Conn
CEO & Co-Founder
Gloto, Raytheon, Solipsys, JHU/APL
Serial entrepreneur, tech executive, and inventor
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Steve Lee
CTO & Co-Founder
Raytheon, Solipsys, Synertech, CSC
Recognized networking expert & principal engineer
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Ryan Chacon
Chief Strategy Officer
MBA, Knollege, Fractograf
Tech entrepreneur & digital marketing expert
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Stephen Jones
Chief Architect
Gloto, Raytheon, Solipsys, JHU/APL
Designed & built 9/11 air defense system
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John Phelps
VP, Engineering
Raytheon, Solipsys, Fractograf, JHU/APL
“Big data” software architect & lead developer
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Hannah White
VP, Design & Product Innovation
GWU '16, Art & Design
Created brand & UX for US presidential campaign
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Calum McClelland
Director, Projects
Brown '16 Philosophy
Author of a comprehensive eBook on IoT
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Yitaek Hwang
Director, Research & Development
Duke '16 ECE & BME
Recognized at the Clinton Global Initiative
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James Schaefer
Director, Product
NC State '16 CS & TE
Invented a FitBit for dogs
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Shahrzad Darafsheh
Product Designer
UMBC '17 Biology & Media
Experience designing for multiple startups
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Sameer Srivastava
Product Engineer
Northwestern '17 ME & CS
Co-created the curriculum for MA in Eng. Design
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Carrie Cosgrove
Product Designer
Georgetown University '16 International Health
Changed university law to foster female leadership
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Reilly Dunn
Project Manager
University of Maryland '16 Marketing
Writer for large commercial news publication
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Matthew Gifford
Product Engineer
UMass 16' PHD Philosophy
Former philosophy lecturer and academic
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Michael Quinn
Product Engineer
Built an Alexa Skill for Baltimore public transportation
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Eric Zhang
Systems Engineer
University of Pittsburgh '18 Bioengineering
Built a marine mammal tracker for Pittsburgh Zoo
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Michael Wedd
Digital Marketing Manager
Columbia '18 Anthropology
Developed an AI-powered therapist
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Hannah Sloan
Project Manager
UNC '18 Economics
Morehead-Cain Scholarship Recipient
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Marc Bielas
Systems Engineer & Director, Business Dev.
Yale '18 Computer Science & Architecture
Built a community of smart city enthusiasts
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Alvaro Viebrantz
Product Engineer
Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso '13 CS
Google Developer Expert for IoT
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Jeffrey Briner
Product Engineer
Brought a product from conception to consumer-facing as the sole front-end engineer
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Shannon Lee
Digital Marketing Manager
Successfully helped launch and grow the brands of multiple VC funded startups
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Hayden Cohen
Project Manager
Received honors for research on International Joint Ventures
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Nadia Jamrozik
Product Designer
Northwestern ’18 Cognitive Science & Design
Won two awards at the BuildHer Hackathon
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New Team Members
We're excited to introduce our new hires! They don't have gifs quite yet, but we just couldn't leave them off the team page.
