Christian Wentz
Founder & CEO , Gradient Technologies
Bio
Christian is the founder and CEO of Gradient Technologies, a secure identity company. Gradient’s flagship product, Stealth MFA revolutionizes identity security by providing the fastest and most secure authentication experience for users and entities across organizations of all sizes.
Previously, Christian was founder and CEO of Kendall Research Systems, a neural interface company acquired by Kernel.co in 2017. He was a member of the founding team at Misfit, Inc., acquired by Fossil Group (NASDAQ: FOSL) in 2015 for $270MM. Wentz received the inaugural Forbes’s 30 Under 30 award in Science & Innovation and was awarded the Hertz Foundation Myhrvold Family Fellowship to pursue a PhD at MIT. He earned an M.Eng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science under Profs. Ed Boyden and Rahul Sarpeshkar, and an S.B. in Electrical Science and Engineering, both from MIT.