Ben Gilbert

Ben is the Co-Founder of Pioneer Square Labs In Seattle. Previously, Ben ran The Garage, Microsoft's Grassroots Innovation program for side projects and hackathons within the company. He also was the User Experience Program Manager on Office for iPad for v1 of the product. He works with UP Global as an international Startup Weekend Facilitator, and was a co-founder of Madrona Venture Labs.

You can read a profile in The Seattle Times here: http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2023317929_microsoftgaragexml.html

He has a BS in CSE and a minor in Entrepreneurship from The Ohio State University, and codes in Objective-C, Python, and Ruby.