Eben Frankenberg is President & CEO of Echodyne Corp which he co-founded in 2014 to bring metamaterials-based radar products to market. Echodyne is a privately held company whose investors include: Bill Gates, Madrona Venture Group, NEA, Vanedge Capital, Vulcan Capital, Baillie Gifford, Northrop Grumman, and others.
Prior to founding Echodyne, Eben spent 9 years at Intellectual Ventures (IV) where he served in a variety of roles including EVP & COO, EVP Corp Dev and Invention Dev, and EIR. In these roles he oversaw creation and incubation of new companies including: Echodyne Corp™, Evolv Technologies, Inc.™, Kymeta, and TerraPower. He also oversaw the IV Lab and Global Good and was responsible for the day to day operations of the company as it grew from 50 to 550 people, and from $250MM to >$5B of capital under management.
Prior to joining Intellectual Ventures, Eben spent 9 years at Onyx Software Corporation in various roles including: EVP Americas, EVP Business Development, SVP Sales and Marketing, and VP Sales. From 1995-2000, Mr. Frankenberg led sales and then sales and marketing as the company grew from $2M to $160M annual run rate and went from basement start-up to publicly traded NASDAQ company.
Before he joined Onyx, Eben was a petroleum geophysicist and large capital project manager with Amoco.
Eben received his B.A. Magna Cum Laude with High Honors from Dartmouth College, and a M.S. in Geophysics from Stanford University.