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DAMION HÄNKEJH

Smithsonian Laureate CTO & Investor

New York City

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In the dark ages, Damion Hänkejh ( hon-kuh ) invented Internet customer service at ingk.com before IBM coined e-business. With Martin S. Rood, he founded InstantService.com (now Oracle / $1B rollup) - the first carrier-class chat/remote control telecom platform for secure real-time Internet support and the first enterprise SaaS, predating Salesforce, et al.

Every serious eCommerce company uses this tech today.

More recently, Damion won IBM's worldwide AI Watson Developer challenge among teams spanning 18 industries/43 countries, becoming the 6th granted access to IBM's cognitive supercomputer, Watson. His FANG toy (Friendly Anthropomorphic Networked Genome) is the first adaptive education service powered by cognitive computing. Its manifestation was a Watson powered plush toy prototype designed to hold a secure, adaptive educational conversation with kids, parents, and teachers.

An hour ago, Damion founded HRDN - uncomputable security beyond decryption embodied in a hardware appliance to immunize networks and data - in flight and at rest - from quantum decryption, man-in-the-middle hacks, and brute force/AI attacks.

Hänkejh was honored as a Smithsonian Laureate in 1999 for his work with surgeon Dr. Robert Lazzara as CTO of Virtual OR (now Swedish Medical), a pioneer at the nexus of telemedicine & minimally invasive robotic-assisted surgery. VOR set the stage for the first fully accredited virtual operating rooms worldwide (a permanent Smithsonian Museum of American History collection).

25% of all surgeries use minimally invasive robotic assisted surgery today

Damion has been a passionate advocate for amfAR since 1995 - volunteering to build the foundation's first website and then its first HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Directory Database - the only comprehensive online resource covering life saving global treatment research and clinical trials at the time. He has since served as advisor to the foundation's CTO for 30 years

Damion advises IBM, Bain & Co, McKinsey, Fidelity, et al.

Photo by Peter Bell @ NASDAQ CTO Summit