David Peters
Chief Executive Officer
David launched Universal Robotics in April of 2008, having raised private equity to capitalize operations. He is the Chairman of the Board. Before founding Universal, he was an entrepreneur in the motion picture industry, working as a producer for 17 years. He is a seasoned operations executive and fund raiser. David is a member of the Director’s Guild of America and the Robotics and Smart Device Committee of the World Economic Forum Network of Global Agenda Councils. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Alan Peters
Chief Technology Officer
As the principal architect of Neocortex, Alan supervises engineering and R&D. Alan is also an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University where he supervises research on a humanoid robot, ISAC, in the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory. He has over fifty publications and has secured research funding in excess of $4 Million. Well regarded among his peers in robotics, he has been a member of the NASA Robonaut research team which includes scientists from USC, MIT, and UMass. His academic work has been in four different areas: signal and image processing, mathematical morphology, electromagnetic scattering, and sensory-guided robotics.
Hob Wubbena
Vice President of Planning & Marketing
Prior to joining in August, 2009, he successfully planned, marketed and introduced engineering solutions (especially software) for Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies for 16 years, based on a technical background of over a decade of engineering. He has experience in aerospace & defense, telecommunications, test & measurement, electronic manufacturing, and the chemical process industries. He has three patents, won numerous marketing awards, and has published over a dozen articles in the US, Europe and Asia. He has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from University of Wisconsin, and an Executive MBA from University of Denver.
Eric Riseman
Vice President of Sales
Eric has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience, specializing in building and scaling emerging growth technology companies both domestically and internationally. Having been the VP of Sales and General Manager for both public and privately held companies, his focus is on providing quality experiences for customers, before and after the sale. Eric has a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Union College.