John Beane is chief executive officer of MemComputing, Inc. Before co-founding the company with Drs. Fabio L. Traversa and Max Di Ventra in 2016, Johnhad cofounded two previous companies. San Diego startup ecoATM, Inc., where he serves as VP of Engineering. ecoATM was acquired by Outerwall for $350M in 2013. Prior to that he was co-founder and vice president of strategic product development at San Diego-based startup Asteres, Inc., which remains private and is creating the market in automated ATM prescription delivery.
John has held executive management positions at both San Diego- and San Francisco-based companies, including Zoom Systems, CardioNow, Inc., Bridge Medical, Inc., and the Pyxis Corporation. CardioNow, Bridge Medical and Pyxis Corporation were all acquired as well. Most notably, Pyxis was acquired by Cardinal Health for $960M. John has come full circle from his first career position as a software engineer at XonTech Inc. working on top secret classified projects for the United States Department of Defense. At XonTech, John worked closely with PhD Physicists and Mathematicians, which is also the make up of the technical staff at MemComputing. John’s background is in the design and development of complex hardware and software systems. He has been awarded 16 patents as part of these efforts.
Additionally, John holds and has held numerous advisory and board positions. Further, appointed in 2016, John served as an entrepreneur in residence/visiting professor of practice at the University of California, San Diego, where he advised and mentored students, researchers and faculty on commercializing technology inventions.
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