Brad Treat is a serial entrepreneur with deep Cornell roots. He is the founding CEO of Mezmeriz, a high-tech company making interactive projectors and reality capture cameras to embed into mobile phones. Mezmeriz is based on patented MEMS technology developed by company co-founder Shahyaan Desai at Cornell. Previously, Brad was the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Cornell University.
Brad is also the co-founder and CEO of SightSpeed, an innovative video and voice communications company. Together with co-founders Aron Rosenberg and Cornell professor Toby Berger, Brad grew SightSpeed from a university research project into the world’s premier video-calling software. SightSpeed was profitably acquired by Logitech for $30MM.
Earlier in his career, Brad worked for eight years in the automotive industry in both the U.S. and Spain at Bowles Fluidics and GKN Automotive. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State and an MBA from the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell.
Brad lives in Ithaca, New York. He is faculty at Ithaca College and at Cornell’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management teaching practical entrepreneurship. With the loving support of his wife Kristin, he competes in long-distance triathlons in the “Clydesdale” division, has done a few Ironman triathlons, and has finished a handful of marathons without walking.