x Drake Smith Drake Smith has 35 years of experience developing hardware, software, and VLSI solutions for commercial and consumer electronics products. He has founded several companies throughout his career including a broadcast video company that was acquired by the National Captioning Institute in 2002, and an interactive television company called Mixed Signals Technologies that was sold to Sony Pictures Entertainment in 1999. Mixed Signals created and produced all of the early interactive TV content for Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, March Madness basketball, the Game Show Network, and more. Currently, he is involved in a cryptographic startup company that provides security solutions for the Internet of Things. Mr. Smith holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Lowell, and a Master of Software Engineering from Brandeis University. Drake Smith program-entrepreneurship-innovation-mentor