Jeff Linnell is the founder and CEO of Formant, a cloud robotics platform for businesses. As a serial entrepreneur, Linnell has founded multiple companies spanning the domains of web technologies, 3D animation, post-production, and augmented reality. Before founding Formant, Linnell served as Head of Robotics at Google X.
He previously founded Autofuss, a design/production company, and Bot & Dolly, an engineering studio specializing in automation, robotics, and film. The latter was recognized with a technical achievement Oscar for its novel robotics application on the film Gravity, and its groundbreaking short, ‘Box’. Both Autofuss and Bot and Dolly were acquired by Google in 2013.