The May meeting of the Roundtable is at noon, Thursday, the 16th, at the Capital City Club downtown.
Our speaker is John Avery, the new Director of the Advanced Technology Development Center. Founded in 1980, ATDC has developed a global reputation for fostering technological entrepreneurship. Forbes named ATDC to its list of “Incubators Changing the World” in 2010 and 2013. The center has graduated 170 companies, generating $12B of revenue in Georgia.
John Avery is a serial entrepreneur who was part of four startups. With broad experience in data and wireless voice technologies, John was co-founder and chief technology officer of Convergence Corp., a maker of software that connects wireless devices to the Internet. Amazon acquired the company in 1999 and John then served as an engineering manager with Amazon. Before joining ATDC, he was engineering group manager of Panasonic Automotive Systems’ Panasonic Innovation Center at the Georgia Tech campus.
John is a Georgia Tech graduate with a bachelor’s degree in engineering. He holds six patents.