Will McLeod

Live online courses, books, and videos on O’Reilly

Bio

Will McLeod is an engineer, inventor, and serial entrepreneur who founded a smart-glass technology company, SmarterShade, and cofounded a home automation hardware company, Keen Home. He has studied entrepreneurship and optics to complement his M.S. (technology commercialization), B.S.(Mechanical Engineering), and B.A.(Industrial Design) degrees from the University of Notre Dame. Will has been successful in winning more than a dozen business plan competitions, federal and local grants that have totaled more than $2M in funding. He has served as the Principal Investigator on three NSF grants and is the lead inventor on two issued patents. He has become an expert on hardware tech start-ups. Will is also a fellow of the Startup Leadership Program, a selective global training program and lifetime network for outstanding founders and innovators, a Techstars alumn, and MassChallenge winner.