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Jeffrey Krause

Title: Principal
Organization: Blacksquare LLC
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Member Since: 2013
Contributions: Judge
Website: Blacksquare

Jeffrey has pioneered work on the internet since 1994 and is the founder of five companies, including Blacksquare, America's Guide (sold 1996), Investment Instruments (rentometer, rentomatic sold 2011), IMO Entertainment, and Moovee.

Jeffrey has a unique ability to balance business needs, complex technology, and team culture.

He's the ideal sounding board for brainstorming, distilling concepts to their essence, or endless discussions about bleeding edge technologies.

He is a member of The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a juror for the Australian International Design Awards, and a mentor for Betaspring's startup accelerator.

His latest fascinations include "emergent" social media apps and realtime augmented reality multiuser mobile apps.

Jeffrey has a BArch from the USC and a SMArchS in Design & Computation from MIT. He was also a Professor of Architecture at the University of Hawaii teaching design studios, and advanced computational design classes.

Visit Jeffrey's research site at arch.blacksquare.com and follow his tweets at @geofree.