Ryan Gariepy. He is the CTO and co-founder of Clearpath - the largest and fastest growing robotics company in Canada. He completed both a B.A.Sc. degree in Mechatronics Engineering and a M.A.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, and has over three dozen pending patents in the field of intelligent systems. He has expertise in everything from educational robotics to automated manufacturing to self-driving mining vehicles. He serves on the board of directors for the Open Source Robotics Foundation and is a co-founder of the first and only global conference for robotics software developers. He is also on the board of directors for Next Generation Manufacturing Canada, the NSERC Canadian Robotics Network, an associate with CDL-Space, and is an advisor for several startups and venture capital groups. http://RyanGariepy.com Twitter: @clearpathrobots or @OTTOMotors
