who we are
The AI Magic Team is comprised of professionals with decades of experience in delivering professional quality software, including 15 years in artificial intelligence.
The team include the founders of Voicebox Technologies, the inventor of the first Smart Speaker and Voice Assistant back in 2005. The Voicebox AI technology has been deployed in over 20 million cars and over 300 million mobile devices. The team pioneered advances in speech recognition and natural language understanding, supported by over a hundred patents issued in the US, Europe and in China.
Management Team
Mike Kennewick
Mike Kennewick
Mike Kennewick
Managing Partner at AI Thinktank
Mike Kennewick is an electrical engineer, tech industry veteran and serial entrepreneur. He started his career at Microsoft where he worked with Bill Gates and Steve Balmer to launch Microsoft’s seminal licensing business for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows.
Subject Matter Expert: Startups and Technology Entrepreneur
Ike Lee
Mike Kennewick
Mike Kennewick
Managing Partner at AI Thinktank
Ike is the CEO of LTC Innovations, Inc located in Seattle WA USA, which specializes in providing strategic management consulting, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory services to industry leaders as well as startup companies.
Subject Matter Expert: Startups and Technology Entrepreneur
Rich Kennewick
Mike Kennewick
Rich Kennewick
Managing Partner at AI Thinktank
Speech AI and Conversational Natural Language Voice Recognition market leader with hundreds of millions of users for auto, mobile, home and consumer electronic marketplaces. Provide embedded, cloud-based and machine learning Artificial Intelligence hybrid global solutions for North American, Europe and Asia
Managing Partner at AI Thinktank
Speech AI and Conversational Natural Language Voice Recognition market leader with hundreds of millions of users for auto, mobile, home and consumer electronic marketplaces. Provide embedded, cloud-based and machine learning Artificial Intelligence hybrid global solutions for North American, Europe and Asian countries. VoiceBox offices in North America, Netherlands, Germany, France, Japan, Singapore, Korea and China.
Subject Matter Expert: Enterprise Sales, Marketing, Business Operations
Peter Look
Dr. Jenq-Neng Hwang
Rich Kennewick
Managing Partner at AI Thinktank
Peter has over 40 years of finance and business experience in Mergers & Acquisitions, Tax and Treasury gained in senior officer roles at CareFusion, Motorola Mobility (Google), Nortel, Visteon, Ford Motor Company and as a Partner at Ernst & Young. His present focus is to help AI ThinkTank launch its AIT Health investment.
Samuel Menaker
Dr. Jenq-Neng Hwang
Dr. Jenq-Neng Hwang
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
15+ years of commercial software development for Windows and Linux platforms and while targeting multiple OSes/hardware. Experience in all cycles of software development - from prototyping to shipping to planning next releases.
Subject Matter Expert: Professional Software Development
Dr. Jenq-Neng Hwang
Dr. Jenq-Neng Hwang
Dr. Jenq-Neng Hwang
Scientific Advisor
Dr. Hwang joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of the University of Washington in Seattle, where he has been promoted to Full Professor since 1999. Associate Chair for Research from 2003 to 2005, and from 2011-2015
Subject Matter Expert: Data Science, Computer Vision