Ben Hood has been an entrepreneur and digital product manager for the last decade, working mainly on web and mobile applications, at companies both big and small. He most recently worked in healthcare and cybersecurity, as a director of product management at Metabiota and Endgame. He also has extensive experience working with big data analytics for government customers. He has worked in the energy sector, providing customers with an app to track their home’s electricity usage. At the beginning of his career, Ben worked on music and video at AOL. Ben has undergraduate degrees in computer engineering and physics, and a Ph.D. in astrophysics.