Samad Tagoe

I studied engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, then began my career at ExxonMobil, where I led a team of engineers and worked in operations and global supply chains on some of the most operationally intensive projects in the industry.

I went on to earn my MBA from Harvard Business School, where I spent two years studying how teams and organizations are built. It was there, in a field course on launching new ventures, that I started building Sonify.

Today I'm the co-founder and CEO of Sonify, a hardware company that blocks noise where it enters a room so people can sleep and focus. We've completed Techstars, raised over $270,000 in pre-orders from nearly 1,200 customers, and taken our first product to mass production with a team of two.