Raffi Krikorian

Raffi Krikorian (Armenian: Րաֆֆի Գրիգորեան; born 1978) is an Armenian-American technology executive, and the CTO of the Emerson Collective.

[11] He currently also serves on the board of directors of the Tumo Center for Creative Technologies in Yerevan, Armenia.

His work involved creating a new type of network for everyday devices called "Internet-0"[12][13] (an analogue to the Internet of Things).

Krikorian also was an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Communication at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Their goal was to allows users to calculate their total energy footprint by estimating their direct and indirect power consumption.

[24][25] After the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which he notes he "still [has] PTSD from", during which Twitter repeatedly had issues,[26] Krikorian lead the charge to strengthen the service.

[42] Krikorian joined Uber in 2015 in the research department to work on "massive scale data and software platforms”.

[46] He also worked on security,[44][47][48] nudging voters to vote[49] as well as the "cultural" elements of bringing engineering to the political world.

He serves on the board of the Tumo Center for Creative Technologies in Yerevan, Armenia where he taught classes[51] and given public lectures.