Jeremy Wertheimer

Jeremy is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is currently incubating several startups in biotech, computational science, education and other fields. His philanthropy has been recognized by MIT, The Broad Institute, the Weizmann Institute, Cooper Union and other institutions. He serves on several boards at MIT and at other institutions. He is a board member of The Engine, and was a trustee of Cooper Union for the past 8 years.

He received a BE in Electrical Engineering from Cooper Union; and a Masters in Computer Science, and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, from MIT. He founded and was the CEO of ITA Software, which powers the airfare shopping for American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and many others. The company grew to over 400 employees and was acquired by Google. Jeremy served as VP of Engineering at Google for 8 years.