What Happened?
New York, NY-based Personal BlackBox Appointed Patrick Deegan as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Personal BlackBox (PBB) is a data relationship company that provides platforms and services to build transparent, productive and private data relationships between companies and people. Companies are freed of the liability and risks associated with consumer data because the PBB Trust puts ownership and control of personal data in the hands of people. PBB has built an enterprise scale platform that allows companies to build apps and campaigns that connect to consumer data for analysis through a series of APIs - without ever allowing the customer’s data out of the system. PBB, which is a Public Benefit Corporation, operates in tandem with the PBB Trust, an entity designed to safeguard personal data with personal data independence standards, security and new policies.
About the Person
Patrick Deegan earned a M.S. Ph.D in Computer Science and designed and implemented several humanoid robots. This work was subsequently utilized as the mobile dexterous base for the MIT Media Lab Nexi platform, named one of TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2008. He holds several patents and while at Rethink Robotics, helped to develop Baxter, a collaborative robot for workforce flexibility that was named one of TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2012. Patrick joined PBB from the Institute of Data Driven Design (ID3), a research non-profit collaborating with MIT’s Media Lab (Human Dynamics Group), where he was Chief Technology Officer. Patrick is also the Chief Architect of Open Mustard Seed (OMS), an open-source Trust Framework for developing and deploying secure, cloud-based platforms and mobile applications. Harnessing the latest advances in Trusted Computing, Internet of Things, and Blockchain technologies, OMS empowers its users with Self-Sovereign Identity, enables the governed exchange of digital assets, financial instruments, and personal information, and forms the basis for the next generation of transparent and responsive digital ecosystems. As PBB’s Chief Technology Officer, Patrick is leading the engineering and design of the Personal BlackBox™ platform and technology ecosystem.
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