Frank Moss

Frank Moss is a serial entrepreneur and technology leader with a forty-year career spanning high tech, biotech, and health tech. He began at IBM Research before holding software leadership positions at Apollo Computer, Stellar Computer, and Lotus Development. He went on to serve as CEO and Chairman of Tivoli Systems, leading the company through a 1995 IPO and subsequent merger with IBM. He has since co-founded a portfolio of ventures including Bowstreet (acquired by IBM), Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Bluefin Labs (acquired by Twitter), and Twine Health, a patient-centric chronic care platform acquired by FitBit.

Moss previously served as Director of the MIT Media Lab, where he also founded the New Media Medicine group, shaping a generation of research at the boundary of digital technology and clinical care. He explored those themes and others in his book The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices: How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives.

Moss has been deeply engaged in academic and institutional leadership throughout his career. He served on the Board of Trustees of Princeton University and on a leadership council of the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation. He currently serves on the Leadership Advisory Committee of Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Executive Advisory Committee of Cincinnati Children’s Anderson Center, and is a Trustee Emeritus of The Jackson Laboratory. He holds a B.S.E. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton and a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT.

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