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Leadership
Bill Townsend and Burton Doo lead Barrett's executive team.
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Bill Townsend
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Bill is Barrett's engineering-driven President & CEO. With the guidance of Barrett’s board of directors, he is realizing a people-centric vision of robotics. Bill assembled Barrett’s adept engineering team to attack the most fundamental challenges in robotics, resulting in patented innovations that will impact robotics for many years to come. Before founding Barrett, Bill created the world’s first haptic manipulator, dubbed WAM™ and designed to be user-centric, during his PhD’88 completed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He completed his PhD-minor at Harvard Business School and Sloan School of Management on Managing Technical Innovation. Beginning in the 1970s, Bill worked on a series of engineering development projects at GTE Laboratories, Bird Machine, Co., and NASA. Bill has won more than a dozen awards, including the Joseph F. Engelberger Award, for his technical leadership in robotics and has authored many papers and patents on the foundational technologies of robotics.
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Burton Doo
Chief Operations Officer
Burt Doo, a 10-year veteran of the GE-operations-management program, was one of the four co-founders of advanced contract manufacturer Altron, incorporated in 1970. As executive vice president, Burt helped Altron grow from an entrepreneurial startup to a NASDAQ-listed public company with $300m in annual revenues. By 1998 Altron was building the most complex circuit boards in the world, approaching 100 layers and 1 square meter, when it merged with Sanmina, taking the Sanmina name < NASDAQ : SANM>. Sanmina retained Burt as executive vice president where he assisted rapid growth through acquisition to $3.95b in sales by his retirement in 2000. Several months later Burt joined Barrett as its Chief Operations Officer, working closely with Bill Townsend since. Burt’s experience, leadership, and hands-on style are moving Barrett toward world-class products and manufacturing.
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