Chris Kasabach has served the Executive Director of the
Watson Foundation
The Thomas J. Watson Foundation is a charitable trust formed 1961 in honor of former chairman and CEO of IBM, Thomas J. Watson. The Foundation's stated vision is to empower students “to expand their vision, test and develop their potential, an ...
since 2011, and is a member of the Foundation's board. He previously co-founded Sandbox Advanced Development with three Carnegie Mellon alumni, and together they co-founded and grew the company into BodyMedia Inc., a
wearable health technology pioneer that was acquired by Jawbone for $100 million in 2013. He also currently serves on the board of directors at the Winterhouse Institute, a council of national design education. Previously, he received his BFA from Carnegie Mellon and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was named Lucius N. Littauer Fellow.
Design Awards
Chris Kasabach's work has won several
design
A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product, or process. The verb ''to design'' ...
awards, including two International Design Excellence Awards. His work has been exhibited by the
Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. He was also a recipient of the
Watson Fellowship in 1991, from the foundation he would later direct.
References
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Living people
Technology company founders
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Harvard Kennedy School alumni
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Place of birth missing (living people)
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