Lance Glasser is on his third startup and is an accomplished artist.
Lance Glasser, Ph.D., is co-founder and CEO of Kinetic Audio Innovations (dba Lyrekos), where he is building technology that lets people sing and play music together in real time over the internet. He previously founded ExXothermic (assistive listening; acquired by Listen Technologies in 2020) and GX3 Innovations (defense R&D).
At KLA he served as Chief Technical Officer, Group Vice President of the Wafer Inspection Group, and VP/GM of the Reticle and Photomask Inspection Division. Before KLA he was Director of the Electronics Technology Office at DARPA, and from 1980 to 1988 a member of the EECS faculty at MIT, where he co-authored The Design and Analysis of VLSI Circuits with Dan Dobberpuhl. He holds 35+ US patents, is an IEEE Senior Member, and is an award-winning bronze sculptor. He is the 1986 recipient of the ASEE Frederick Emmons Terman Award.