Bio

Experienced CEO, COO, CTO, and Board Member. Publicly traded, Privately held, Large, small, and start-up technology-driven and industrial corporations. Arnie Kravitz is the ARM Institutes Chief Innovation Officer. He leads the effort of identifying innovative opportunities for increasing U.S. global competitiveness by accelerating innovative technologies that make robots more accessible to U.S. manufacturers. He builds the teams and raises the funds to support these efforts. His goal is to invigorate the US industrial base through the shepherding of an eco-system that develops and uses, ai enhanced robotic equipment to improve the safety, efficiency, proficiency and yields of supply chain operations, manufacturing facilities and distribution centers. With over 40 years of experience designing, developing, and manufacturing a large portfolio of products., Arnie can draw from a broad portfolio of experiences and relationships. These experiences include business: startups, growth companies, and recovery efforts. These efforts involved the envisioning, development and use of advanced technologies such as AI and expert systems, vision systems; mapping systems, for aquatic robots, autonomous vehicles, and industrial robotics, commercial consumer electronics, cyber secure communications and data handling devices, that serve the aerospace, space, security, military, automotive, textile, marine, renewable energy, mobile power-generation/distribution and the consumer electronics industries. In addition to his role at the ARM institute, Arnie serves on several corporate board of directors and corporate advisory boards of companies such as Involta, Walmart ,the Secure America Institute, and several startups. Arnie served as an Adjunct Professor at The Johns Hopkins University and has significant success rapidly transforming new ideas into manufactured products. Arnie holds a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.