Stan Kugell is an American investor, entrepreneur, inventor, and computer scientist. He is current or former director of over a dozen corporate and non-profit boards. He remains active advising technology entrepreneurs privately and as a Mentor at the Harvard i-Lab. He was a research scientist at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, where he invented

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. At the

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he and Ed McCreight built the first voicemail system. He co-founded

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and was primary designer of its user interface. He is inventor or co-inventor of seven U.S. and international patents and applications. He co-hosted Kugell & McLaughlin, a nationally syndicated political talk radio program, and served as a commentator on the public radio show

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and on the

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