Nathan Myhrvold
Founder and CEO, Intellectual Ventures
After retiring from his position as chief strategist and chief technology officer of Microsoft, Nathan Myhrvold founded Intellectual Ventures, a company that is assembling a large body of patents and inventions. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge University and worked with Professor Stephen Hawking on research in cosmology, quantum field theory in curved space time and quantum theories of gravitation. Dr. Myhrvold himself holds more than 20 patents and has nearly 200 patents pending. He is currently working on a cookbook surveying the science, technology and techniques used in modern cuisine. It is expected to be completed in late 2009.
