Welcoming John Werner to the Team
Cogo Labs is excited to announce the addition of John Werner to the team as an Executive-in-Residence.
John Werner has created a career out of bringing ideas, networks and people together to generate powerful results. Currently, John serves as an executive-in-residence at CogoLabs, a startup accelerator in Cambridge, MA. Before joining CogoLabs, John’s deep curiosity and penchant for problem-solving led him to a diverse set of roles spanning many fields and interests.
Previously, John was a VP at Meta, a Y Combinator augmented reality startup based in Silicon Valley. John’s also served as the Head of Innovation and New Ventures at the MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture Group, and the Managing Director of Emerging Worlds SIG, where he led the launch of collaborative innovation centers in Mumbai, Nashik, and Hyderabad.
John also channels his passion and curiosity into cultivating platforms for thought and exchange. John is the Founder & CEO of ARIA, a community focused on the potential of augmented reality and the Blockchain+AI+Human, which takes place at MIT and the World Economic Forum with MIT Professor Sandy Pentland.
John also founded Ideas in Action Inc., a non-profit that creates and produces TEDxBeaconStreet, whose talks have accumulated 250+ million YouTube views. John was also a co-Founder of Citizen Schools, an advisor for PhotoButler and Vestigo Ventures, a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and a graduate of Hamilton College.
In his free time, John is a passionate photographer and an accomplished triathlete. John and his family live in Brookline, MA.
Please join us in welcoming John!
