Micha Breakstone

Micha Breakstone, PhD, is a repeat entrepreneur with broad experience designing Natural Language and Machine Learning systems, and holds a Masters in Math, and a PhD in Cognitive Science.

He co-founded Chorus.ai in 2015 backed by top tier VCs, and previously helped build two successful startups: Summly, an automatic summarization startup which was acquired by Yahoo!; And Ginger, where he founded and managed the VPA Platform Business Unit which was spun out and acquired by Intel. He is passionate about the marriage of language and algorithms, and believes that building human-quality NLP technologies is a critical step towards achieving AI’s ultimate goal of empowering, rather than replacing, humans.