Primary Job Title Founder & Chairman Primary Organization Migo
Location Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC) Gender Male
Website www.migo.tv LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
Barrett Comiskey is the Founder and Chariman of Migo, a Temasek-backed company in Southeast Asia bridging modern digital services to hundreds of millions of previously unaddressed consumers.
Known for being one of the "fathers of electronic ink", as an MIT undergrad Barrett developed the technology behind the Amazon Kindle e-reader. He
then co-founded E Ink in 1997, which has since delivered billions of e-books and revolutionized the print industry.
Living in Asia since 2004, Barrett is focused on closing the Gigabyte Gap for emerging market communities. Migo's unique last-mile platform brings the cloud to neighborhood corner stores, allowing for offline delivery of digital content to consumers' pockets – all at sachet prices. On-demand video is the first product on Migo's platform, with the Philippines as its first market and an R&D center in Taipei, Taiwan.
With more than 70 patents to his name, Barrett has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer, and is an inductee of the US National Inventors Hall of Fame. He has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Wired, and was profiled by Esquire as “The New American”.
Barrett is an alumnus of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and holds a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT.
