Gene Shkolnikov

CTO

Gene has spent his career operating at the forefront of emergent technologies. He brings over 20 years of experience translating creative ideas into innovative products and business innovations — developing breakthrough products in Internet of Things (IoT), healthcare, and wearable technology sectors.

His superpower is fostering collaborative, high performing cultures by empowering teams and individuals to share ideas, experiment, and iterate. As a result, he has built and led multiple successful technology teams in both startup and complex corporate environments.

While at J&J, he built and led a large global engineering team tasked with launching transformational Internet of Things (IoT) platforms that spanned cloud, mobile, big data, analytics, sensors, and devices. This service delivered multiple new product lines and new business models across different sectors

Prior to that, Gene co-founded and led a startup specializing in sensor technologies for mobile, wearable, and IoT devices, which pioneered the use of MEMS sensors for activity tracking and gesture recognition. Gene holds multiple technology patents and numerous awards in mobile innovation.