Jonathan Betts-LaCroix is the Chief technical officer

Chief technical officer

A chief technology officer is an executive-level position in a company or other entity whose occupant is focused on scientific and technological issues within an organization....

 of OQO

OQO

OQO was a U.S. computer hardware company that was notable for manufacture of handheld computers. Its systems possess the functionality of a tablet PC in a form factor slightly larger than a personal digital assistant . According to Guinness World Records, the "OQO" was the smallest full-powered,...

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Prior to founding OQO

OQO

OQO was a U.S. computer hardware company that was notable for manufacture of handheld computers. Its systems possess the functionality of a tablet PC in a form factor slightly larger than a personal digital assistant . According to Guinness World Records, the "OQO" was the smallest full-powered,...

, Jonathan built Analog Design, an electronics design-and-build firm with clients such as IBM Corporation, Apple Computer

Apple Computer

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...

, and Maxtor

Maxtor

Maxtor Corporation, founded in 1982 and acquired by Seagate Technology in 2006, was an American manufacturer of computer hard disk drives, the third largest in the world immediately prior to acquisition...

. In 1998, he was a founder and the primary technical contributor at Unilinear, where he developed a PC-card/wireless adapter for Palm PDA's. Jonathan previously worked as a researcher at IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

's Almaden Research Center

Almaden Research Center

The IBM Almaden Research Center is in San Jose, California, and is one of IBM's nine worldwide research labs. Its scientists perform basic and applied research in computer science, services, storage systems, physical sciences, and materials science and technology. The center opened in 1986, and...

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Jonathan has several patents issued and pending in the area of analog electronics, including the "floating triangle" A-D converter in the IBM TrackPoint pointing device.

Holding an A.B. from Harvard College

Harvard College

Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of two schools within Harvard University granting undergraduate degrees...

 in environmental geoscience, and an M.S. degree from MIT in earth, atmospheric, and planetary science, Jonathan has also worked as a researcher at Caltech, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center located in the San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles County, California, United States. The facility is headquartered in the city of Pasadena on the border of La Cañada Flintridge and Pasadena...

, MIT and Harvard. He has published articles in major academic journals on analog electronics, computational biophysics and planetary paleogeochemistry.

External links

• OQO http://www.oqo.com
• betts-lacroix website http://www.betts-lacroix.com