Dr. Ron Suarez
Distance Traveled
Born 1950 Spanish Harlem -> 1998 Dot Com Millionaire
Paradigm Shifter
1970 spring student strike organizer
1971 West Bronx food co-op founder
1974 behavioral -> cognitive psychology
1980’s cognitive neuroscience -> artificial intelligence
1986 Mac Programmer worker owned cooperative founder
1990’s waterfall -> object oriented technology
1998 Object Insight, JVision, UML for the Rest of Us
2006 Only Hispanic ever elected to Ann Arbor City Council
2007 Created Tunecore tools: deliver artists music into iTunes etc
2011 developer #1 9,000 user Occupy Wall Street website
2016 DNC Pledged Delegate, Bernie Sanders, NY CD14 (AOC)
2022 founder Broadband Institute 501(c)(3)
2025 founder CommunityAgentsAI Seeking venture capital