Leadership Bios
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Rony Abovitz, President & CEO, Founder
About Rony
Rony Abovitz is a serial inventor and visionary leader known for introducing technology that pushes the boundaries on what is possible. Today, he is the Founder and CEO of SynthBee, building safe, scalable, and reliable Collaborative Intelligence™ that amplifies human innovation–accelerating breakthroughs across the most pressing scientific, engineering, and design challenges.
Passionate about imagining and creating, Rony has spent more than three decades turning ambitious ideas into entirely new technology fields and category-defining businesses. In 2004, Rony co-founded MAKO Surgical, where he built a manifestation of a new ideal of people and machines–pioneering robotic-assisted orthopedic surgery, now a field of study called Cobots. Since founding MAKO Surgical, the idea of intelligent systems being safe by design–safe to work with people, to be around people, and safe for our future–has remained a core principle for Rony. Following MAKO's acquisition by Stryker Corporation for $1.65 billion, in 2011 he founded Magic Leap, the world's most influential spatial computing company, where he helped advance the convergence of advanced intelligence, computer vision, graphics, sensing, and human-computer interaction through innovations. Prouducts launched there are currently in use at Fortune 500 companies, major universities, hospitals, developers, defense, and governments around the world.
A two-time World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Rony extends his entrepreneurship and leadership lessons well beyond his own organizations, inspiring the next generation of leaders and learners. He frequently speaks at renowned universities and technology conferences on the future of intelligence, and serves as a Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group, counseling CEOs, growth-tech founders and government leaders in areas of deeptech, medtech, biotech, telecommunications, games/media and overall innovation.
Rony holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Miami, where the earliest ideas behind MAKO Surgical took shape. Today, South Florida is home to SynthBee’s headquarters–the same backyard where his journey as an engineer and entrepreneur began. In 2025 SynthBee brought its Collaborative Intelligence platform into the University’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering curriculum, giving aspiring engineers early, hands-on exposure to the technology reshaping their field. This partnership reflects Rony and the company’s ongoing commitment to invest in top talent and to transform the community into one of the country’s most influential tech-hubs.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronyabovitz
John Clark, SVP Engineering Systems and Manufacturing Operations
About John
John Clark is the Senior Vice President for Engineering Systems and Manufacturing Operations for SynthBee, helping propel the company’s vision forward to change the world of engineering design and product manufacturing with the implementation of Collaborative Intelligence™ across the entire product lifecycle.
John brings nearly three decades of experience across advanced manufacturing, software systems design, hardware, electronics and product development–expertise established during his tenure at Lockheed Martin. Most recently he was the Senior Vice-President for Technology and Strategic Innovation for Lockheed Martin where he was responsible for establishing the future technology strategy working with all business areas to facilitate greater innovation across the business. Previously, he served as the company’s Vice-President and General Manager of their Skunk Works® division, where he focused on designing and developing the most advanced aircraft in the Department of Defense (DoD) ecosystem, leading all advanced development activities, engaging with a diverse customer community and setting strategic priorities for the growth engine of the Aeronautics business area.
John also continues to service the defense community directly, working part-time with the DepSecWar office in support of the Business Operations for National Defense (BOND) program, where he’s helping drive capabilities into the warfighter's hands more efficiently.
John is a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder, where he received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Texas Christian University, where he earned his M.B.A. His educational foundation and storied career built on rapid innovation, naturally aligns with SynthBee and its proprietary Collaborative Intelligence™ platform. His years of embracing the Skunk Works® model–'be quick, be quiet, be on time’–translates perfectly to the fast-paced challenges facing every industry today where he’ll help SynthBee, and its customers accelerate meaningful advances in human-computing collaboration.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johng-clark/
John Clark, SVP Engineering Systems and Manufacturing Operations
About John
John Clark is the Senior Vice President for Engineering Systems and Manufacturing Operations for SynthBee, helping propel the company’s vision forward to change the world of engineering design and product manufacturing with the implementation of Collaborative Intelligence™ across the entire product lifecycle.
John brings nearly three decades of experience across advanced manufacturing, software systems design, hardware, electronics and product development–expertise established during his tenure at Lockheed Martin. Most recently he was the Senior Vice-President for Technology and Strategic Innovation for Lockheed Martin where he was responsible for establishing the future technology strategy working with all business areas to facilitate greater innovation across the business. Previously, he served as the company’s Vice-President and General Manager of their Skunk Works® division, where he focused on designing and developing the most advanced aircraft in the Department of Defense (DoD) ecosystem, leading all advanced development activities, engaging with a diverse customer community and setting strategic priorities for the growth engine of the Aeronautics business area.
John also continues to service the defense community directly, working part-time with the DepSecWar office in support of the Business Operations for National Defense (BOND) program, where he’s helping drive capabilities into the warfighter's hands more efficiently.
John is a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder, where he received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Texas Christian University, where he earned his M.B.A. His educational foundation and storied career built on rapid innovation, naturally aligns with SynthBee and its proprietary Collaborative Intelligence™ platform. His years of embracing the Skunk Works® model–'be quick, be quiet, be on time’–translates perfectly to the fast-paced challenges facing every industry today where he’ll help SynthBee, and its customers accelerate meaningful advances in human-computing collaboration.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johng-clark/