Sonaar Luthra

CEO

Sonaar is a TEDGlobal Fellow, and a graduate of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).  He spent his time at ITP developing low-cost water sensing hardware, and led the winning team of the 2010 NYU Stern School of Business Social Venture Competition.  He taught Physical Computing at New York’s GreenFab Laboratory and worked as a reporter for the India Today Group.

Eric Rosenthal

Senior Scientist

Eric is the inventor of the spectral technologies underlying the Water Canary, and has guided technical development since its early days at ITP.  He is an expert in the field of optical and radio engineering, a former VP of Advanced Technology Research at Disney Imagineering.  His work has been sponsored by NASA, DARPA, and the Naval Research Lab.

Zach Eveland

Lead Engineer

Zach is an ITP Graduate who has extensive experience in optimization engineering & medical prototyping, and has worked at Scott Laboratories, the Interaction Design Laboratory Potsdam, Studio 5050 and Sparkle Labs.

Sarah Szalavitz

Director/Strategist

Sarah is the founder of 7-Robot, a social design company, teaches social design at the MIT Media Lab, and regularly consults for large corporations like Microsoft, Nokia and Hasbro.

Advisors
Red Burns, founder and Chief Collaborations Officer of ITP
John Dimatos, Head of Applications at Makerbot Industries
Derek Dukes, CEO and Co-Founder of Dipity
Tom IgoeCo-Founder of Arduino and author of "Making Things Talk"
Jono Rosen,VP of Technology Ventures at Applied Minds
Eric Rasmussen, Founder of Strong-Angel
Kevin Slavin, Founder of Area/Code
Clay Shirky, social media expert and author of "Cognitive Surplus"
Dr. Philip Tierno, Clinical Professor of Medical Microbiology, Ecology & Human Metagenomics, NYU