About Us

CO-FOUNDER AND CEO

Co-founder and CEO, TechNext Inc. Christopher L. Magee is Professor, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Co-Director, International Design Centre, Singapore University of Technology & Design. He has more than 35 years of experience at Ford Motor Company beginning in the Scientific Research Laboratory and progressing through a series of management positions to Executive Director of Programs and Advanced Engineering. Prof. Magee is currently engaged in research on technological progress with emphasis on quantification and prediction. His interests in engineering education have focused on creativity, design and socio-technical systems; he has co-published two books and about 100 publications. Prof. Magee is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of ASM and SAE and a participant on major National Research Council Studies. Prof. Magee received his B.S. and PhD from Carnegie-Mellon University in that city. He later received an MBA from Michigan State University.

CO-FOUNDER AND CTO

Co-founder and CTO, TechNext Inc. Anuraag is a Fellow, MIT System Design and Management. He is a part of the MIT Work of the Future Task Force. He worked for Honda R&D Japan in Tokyo at Think Lab, which helped create long term strategy for the company. After completing his undergraduate studies in Mechanical Engineering at IIT Delhi, he joined as an automotive interior designer at the Honda R&D automobile headquarters. While at Department of Science & Technology Center for Policy Research, he did innovation policy research, particularly innovation assessment and incubators, for the Government of India.

DIRECTOR, CLIENT OPERATIONS

Cherif is Director of Client Operations at TechNext. After completing his Bachelor of Science at the University of California Berkeley, he worked as an Analyst, Associate and Vice President in Investment Banking in Paris, London and New York with Montety & Feral, Citigroup and Macquarie Capital. Cherif worked on sell-side and buy-side transactions, debt and equity raises and IPOs for a variety of companies. Before joining TechNext, Cherif worked in Private Equity in Shanghai on restructurings and mergers before transitioning to a SaaS Company in New York as Director of Strategy & Financial Planning directly reporting to the Board of Directors and the CEO.

DIRECTOR, ENGINEERING

Barry has over 20 years experience as a Software Developer, Architect, Product owner and mentor. He has experience working in large enterprises, and startups. At Intel, he was a Senior Software Engineer in the CAD R&D division for 8 years. In the recent past, he was developing software to design supersonic planes at a startup. He is now engaged in full-stack web development at TechNext Inc., building the next-gen data driven Technology Operating System for identifying fastest growing Technologies. He holds an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Pennsylvania, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and M.Sc. in Business Analytics from Imperial College, London.

NLP RESEARCHER

Kevin is the NLP Researcher at TechNext, and he is also an experienced Machine Learning Engineer. He was previously part of a team that developed ed-tech AI systems for the US Air Force, and he develops AI systems for psychiatric applications on his own time. In his past work, he demonstrated it is possible to accurately model and classify mental health conditions given a text monologue. Kevin also enjoys creating art with machine learning. Recently, Kevin developed a depressed GPT model which now lives on his computer.