Meet The Team

CHET UDELL, CEO, CO-FOUNDER

After being inspired by Atsuhiro Ito’s original Optron, Chet Udell re-imagined and produced his first Optron in 2016, winning Best Performance at the Georgia Tech Margaret Guthman Competition, the X-Prize for new Musical Instruments. Chet has 20 years of experience in making electronic instruments and electronic music. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in Music Composition with Cognate in Electrical Engineering. Inventor on domestic and international patents for wireless sensor technology for musical expression, Chet is currently a professor in Biological and Ecological Engineering at Oregon State University.

He has taught students from 5th grade, to college, to industry professionals conducting STEAM workshops and hackathons throughout the country and the world on topics from creating new environmental sensors to devices for musical and artistic expression.

ANDREW MCGREGOR, COO, CO-FOUNDER

Andrew McGregor in a Grammy-nominated bagpiper with an background founding several not-for-profit and social enterprise companies drawing from his expertise as a filmmaker, inventor, writer, chessboxing champion, entrepreneur, frequent TEDx speaker, mentor, Highlands games athlete, photojournalist, magician, Curator of MindshareLA, and a founder of The Tiziano Project. He was named one of ‘LA’s 40 Most Interesting People’ by LA Weekly, was part of a team that won the SXSW Interactive Award for Activism, won the ‘Foreigner’ division of an Independence Day Chess Tournament in Kazakhstan, he was featured in the Sports Section of the ‘NY Times’, and he has even received a Certificate of Appreciation from Los Angeles' City Council!

He holds a B.A from Connecticut College and a master's from the University of Southern California.

ALAN G. SANCHEZ, CTO, CO-FOUNDER

Alan is a Ph.D. student working in the Personal Robotics Group at Oregon State University (OSU). His interests are in assistive robotics and human-robot interaction. He is currently researching how to improve Ultraviolet disinfection robots to combat infectious viruses.

Alan is passionate about educational outreach programs and volunteers at the Mariachi STEAM summer camp at OSU. His goal is to return to his community in the Coachella Valley and become a STEAM instructor for K-12 education.

He spends his free time dancing with his robot friend, Fetch, or working on DIY projects.