Wendell Brown

Wendell Brown
Brown speaking at TIME in New York City, October 2012
Born	Wendell Brown
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Cornell University
Occupation	Inventor Entrepreneur Computer Scientist
Known for	Teleo LiveOps eVoice
Home town	Oneonta, New York

Wendell Brown is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur and inventor best known for his innovations in Telecommunications and Internet Technology, Cybersecurity, Smartphone app development, and the Internet of Things. Brown has founded multiple notable technology companies including Teleo, LiveOps and eVoice.

Brown is regarded as a pioneer of the gig economy and the work-at-home virtual workforce industry, having co-founded LiveOps as its chairman and chief technology officer in 2002. LiveOps designs call center solutions and social media management for companies such as Coca-Cola, Pizza Hut, and eBay. As of July 2016, LiveOps employed the world's largest work-at-home call agent workforce with more than 20,000 agents, and its cloud platform had processed more than one billion minutes of customer service interactions.

In 2015, Brown founded the cybersecurity company Averon, which develops frictionless identity solutions based on mobile technologies. Averon introduced its cybersecurity solution concept on the main stage of the global TED Conference in Vancouver, Canada in March 2016.Telefónica has announced a technology partnership with Averon.

Brown co-founded Nularis in 2011, a developer of high-efficiency LED lighting technology that supplies global franchises including Hyatt Hotels, Four Seasons Hotels and The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf.

In 2006, Brown co-founded Teleo, an early competitor of Skype, where he created VoIP applications enabling users to send and receive phone calls over the Internet. Teleo was acquired by Microsoft and became part of Microsoft's MSN group in 2006.