Prior to founding OQO, Jonathan Betts-LaCroix founded Analog Design, an electrical engineering design-and-build firm with clients including IBM, Apple Computer, and Maxtor. In 1998, he was the founder and primary technical and business contributor for Unilinear, where he developed a snap-on PC-card/wireless adapter for Palm-compatible PDA's. Jonathan previously worked as a researcher at IBM's Almaden Research Center.
Jonathan has several patents issued and pending in the area of analog electronics, including the "floating triangle" A-D converter in the IBM TrackPoint pointing device.
Jonathan holds an A.B. from Harvard College in environmental geoscience, and an M.S. degree from MIT in earth, atmospheric, and planetary science. Jonathan has also worked as a researcher at Caltech, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, MIT and Harvard. He has published articles in major journals on electronics, computational biophysics and planetary evolution. |