Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 4
Number of Founded Organizations 4

Damon Horowitz is a leading thinking at the intersection of technology and the humanities.

Horowitz recently served as In-House Philosopher / Director of Engineering at Google, heading development of personalization and privacy initiatives. Previously, Horowitz built several companies based on automated language processing, including

Aardvark (acquired by Google), Perspecta (acquired by Excite), Novation Biosciences (acquired by Agilent), and NewsDB (now Daylife).

Horowitz currently teaches Philosophy in the Core Curriculum at Columbia University; previously, he taught at Stanford, NYU, University of Pennsylvania, and San Quentin State Prison. He is a popular public speaker at venues ranging from TED to AAAI to O'Reilly conferences, and his work has been featured in media ranging from the New York Times to Discovery Channel to TechCrunch.

Horowitz serves on the Board of several arts and humanities non-profits and mission-driven for-profit technology enterprises. He earned his B.A. from Columbia, M.S. from the MIT Media Lab, and Ph.D. from Stanford.

Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 5
Damon Horowitz is the Philosophy Professor at Columbia University. Additionally, Damon Horowitz has had 5 past jobs including Co-Founder at Perspecta.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Perspecta
Co-Founder
Novation Biosciences
Co-Founder
Google
In-House Philosopher
Aardvark
Co-Founder, CTO2010
Daylife
Co-Founder, CTO
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 4
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 2
Damon Horowitz holds 4 board and advisor roles including Member of the Advisory Board at Slice Technologies, Member of the Advisory Board at Learner-Centered Collaborative, and Member of the Advisory Board at Versa.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Good Eggs
Board Advisor2013
Source4Style
Member of the Advisory BoardOct 2009