Jonathan Betts-LaCroix

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Jonathan Betts-LaCroix is the CTO of OQO.

Prior to founding OQO, Jonathan built Analog Design, an electronics design-and-build firm with clients such as IBM Corporation, Apple Computer, and Maxtor. In 1998, he was a founder and the primary technical contributor at Unilinear, where he developed a PC-card/wireless adapter for Palm 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.

Holding 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 academic journals on analog electronics, computational biophysics and planetary paleogeochemistry.