Daniel Lin, Founder
Prior to founding Oomble, Dan was Pay By Touch's first Intellectual Property Counsel where he was responsible for the growth and management of the company’s patent portfolio and was involved in the mining and development of innovation within the company. Prior to that, he was an intellectual property attorney at the law firms of Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP where he focused on private equity transactions and other intellectual property related transactions. Dan received his undergraduate degree from Amherst College, his master's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his law degree from the University of Chicago.
Christopher Hess, Founder
Prior to founding Oomble, Chris was an innovator at Siemens Technology-To-Business Center. There he developed a proactive desktop search application used to assist users in finding information relevant to their current task. The technology was bought by Siemens Enterprise Systems to be incorporated into several of their communications applications. Chris received both his undergraduate degree and master's degree in mechanical engineering from Tufts University and his master’s and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he specialized in ubiquitous computing. |