Ben Wild

Chief Technology Officer at Hubble Network

Ben Wild has a diverse work experience spanning a range of industries and roles. Ben is currently serving as the Chief Technology Officer at Hubble Network since October 2021. Prior to this, Ben worked at Amazon as a Product Manager in the Wireless, IoT, and Robotics division from April 2018 to May 2021. Before their tenure at Amazon, they held the role of Product Manager at Ring, a smart home security company, from September 2017 to April 2018.

Ben's entrepreneurial experience includes being the Co-Founder and CEO of Iotera, where they led a team in creating and bringing the world's smallest real-time GPS tracker to market. Ben also managed the engineering, contract manufacturing, and industrial design teams. Ben's role at Iotera lasted from August 2010 to September 2017.

During their time at Sensys Networks, Inc., Ben worked as a Member of Technical Staff from January 2011 to May 2012. Here, they applied distributed signal processing techniques and machine learning to develop a novel wireless weigh-in-motion IoT network capable of estimating truck weights.

As the Co-Founder and CEO of Wirama, Inc., Ben led a team in designing and building the world's first RFID reader capable of precisely locating passive tags in 3D space. Wirama was later acquired, and Ben's role lasted from January 2006 to July 2009.

Ben's earlier experience includes working as a Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman, where they developed image processing algorithms and implemented them in a small missile interceptor system. Ben also served as a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, where they taught a course on microelectronic circuits.

Ben began their career as an Engineer at Agilent Technologies from May 2000 to August 2000.

Overall, Ben Wild's work experience showcases their expertise in technology, product management, entrepreneurship, and engineering across various sectors.

Ben Wild has a strong education background in Electrical Engineering. Ben started their educational journey in 1996 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where they pursued a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Electrical Engineering. After completing their undergraduate studies in 2000, they continued their academic pursuits at the University of California, Berkeley. From 2000 to 2002, they obtained a Master of Science (MS) degree in Electrical Engineering.

Following their Master's degree, Ben Wild decided to further their expertise in the field and pursued a higher level of education. Ben enrolled in a Ph.D. program at the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. However, they left the Ph.D. program after completing the required coursework and passing the Qualifying exam, resulting in him being considered a Ph.D. candidate without obtaining a Ph.D. degree.

In 2022, Ben Wild participated in a program called Y Combinator, although no specific degree or field of study is mentioned for this experience.

Overall, Ben Wild holds a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a Master of Science (MS) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and is considered a Ph.D. candidate after successfully completing coursework and a qualifying exam at the same institution.

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  • Chief Technology Officer

    October, 2021 - present