Damion Hänkejh
Smithsonian Laureate CTO / Investor
- Role
- Counsel to CTO at Amfar
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Damion Hänkejh
73 65 6e 64••••••••46f 20 6e 61 70 6b 69 6e 40 69 6e 67 6b 2e 63 6f 6d - AI, Security, Defense, Fintech, eCommerce, Medical, Robotics, Veterans, Education, Energy, Earth, Space, Wetware - Resurrecting distressed VC & founder assets from the intellectual property graveyard for commercialization. In the dark ages, Damion invented Internet customer service and founded InstantService.com before IBM coined eCommerce in 1997 (exited to Oracle /$1B rollup)- the first and largest carrier-class telecom platform for secure real-time Internet support. Recently, Damion won IBM\'s Watson Developer challenge among teams spanning 18 industries across 43 countries, becoming the 6th granted access to IBM\'s cognitive supercomputer, Watson. His FANG toy (Friendly Anthropomorphic Networked Genome) is the first adaptive education service powered by cognitive computing. Its manifestation was a Watson powered plush toy prototype designed to hold a secure conversation with kids, parents & teachers. Damion founded HRDN - security beyond encryption embodied in a hardware appliance to immunize networks and data - in flight and at rest - from brute force attacks, man-in-the-middle hacks, and quantum decryption. Leading cloud computing companies have failed to hack HRDN. Hänkejh was honored as a Smithsonian Laureate for his work as the founding CTO of Virtual Operating Room (now Swedish Medical). His pioneering work with Dr. Robert Lazzara at the nexus of medicine, robotics & Internet set the stage for the first fully accredited virtual operating rooms worldwide (a permanent Smithsonian collection). Damion formerly volunteered in 1995 to create amfAR\'s first website & HIV/AIDS Treatment Directory Database - the first and only comprehensive online resource covering global treatment research & clinical trials. He continues to support the foundation today.
Experience
Counsel to CTO
Jan 1995 — Present · New York, NY, US
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