James Gentes

I'm a product manager, full stack developer, and growth marketer with a passion for intuitive design, pirate metrics, and hacking code. I'm currently co-founder and chief product officer of Tend.ai, a company changing the world with robots. Previously in my career, I managed a $100M global product line for 7 years while at Symantec. I built the official MTV News and People Magazine apps for the iPhone. I patented a method for clustering virtual machines (https://buff.ly/HsIXSG). I started a social media and SEO firm called The Social Business (@thesocialbiz), where I built a social business analytics app in Python and sold it to a NY venture firm called Innovation Garden (https://www.innovationgarden.com) in 2014. I was also chairman of the Tech Alliance of Central Oregon 501(c)3, I organized BendTech (https://bendtech.com), a co-working facility for startups, I have pitched at the Bend Venture Conference, and I am a mentor and alumni of the FoundersPad business accelerator program.