Barrett Comiskey

Barrett Comiskey (born September 18, 1975) is an American innovator. He is the founder and CEO of Migo.

Comiskey is known for being one of the "fathers of E Ink." At MIT, Comiskey invented the microencapsulated electrophoretic display, commercialized by E Ink, which he co-founded in 1997.

He began developing the E Ink display during nights and weekends at the MIT Media Lab in 1995, at the age of 19, after MIT professor Joseph Jacobson challenged him to create a technology that would mimic the appearance of ink on paper.

Comiskey ultimately conceived of the microencapsulated electrophoretic display, which overcame the many practical challenges faced by previous attempts at realizing workable particle-based displays. In 1997, after years of research and experimentation, Comiskey and fellow MIT undergraduate JD Albert realized a working prototype.

Over the next decade, Comiskey worked on the further development and industrialization of the technology at MIT and subsequently at E Ink, in both Cambridge, Massachusetts and Shanghai, China.

For its role in the evolution of the publishing industry, E Ink has been called “the greatest innovation since Gutenberg.”

While still an undergraduate at MIT, Comiskey was published as first author of the May 1998 cover article of Nature magazine, "An electrophoretic ink for all-printed reflective electronic displays".

Comiskey holds 72 patents. He was recognized as a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum, and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May 2016 for the invention and commercialization of E Ink, together with Joe Jacobson and JD Albert.

Comiskey founded Migo in 2009. Migo develops and deploys new technologies to close the digital divide in emerging markets.

Comiskey holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University, a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT and attended Regis High School in New York City.

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