Eben Frankenberg is CEO of Echodyne Corp which he co-founded in 2014 to bring metamaterials-based radar products to market. Before Echodyne, Frankenberg held executive leadership positions at Intellectual Ventures (IV) which included creating and incubating new companies like Echodyne, founded in 2014, Evolv Technologies, Inc., founded in 2013 to deliver security imaging products, Kymeta, founded in 2012 to deliver metamaterials-based satellite communication terminals, and TerraPower, founded in 2008 to deliver next generation nuclear power reactors. Frankenberg was COO of Intellectual Ventures as it grew from 50 to 550 people, and from $250M to >$5B of capital under management.
Prior to joining Intellectual Ventures, Frankenberg spent nine years at Onyx Software Corporation in various executive leadership roles. From 1995-2000, he led sales and marketing as the company grew from $2M to $160M annual run rate and went from basement start-up to 800 person publicly traded NASDAQ company. Frankenberg has a B.A. from Dartmouth, and a M.S. from Stanford.
Smart city leaders are rightfully concerned about cybersecurity. Securing smart digital cities with millions of IOT devices from rogue actors with easy access to Internet connections anywhere in the world requires constant vigilant effort. Unfortunately, away from all the headlines of cybersecurity lies a new, but equally concerning threat: rogue actors with easy access to inexpensive drones that can violate individual privacy, menace citizenry in public spaces, and deliver contraband or even lethal payloads.
