Keri Waters

KERI WATERS is an engineer and founder who has spent three decades building hardware, from semiconductors to consumer electronics to water technology. She founded Buoy Labs, acquired by Resideo in 2019, and led its $320 million water business as Vice President and General Manager. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and has co-invented patented sensing technology. She advises DARPA-funded companies on commercialization through Capital Factory and runs Petrichor Labs. She came to this book the way she comes to any new product: she spotted where the world was heading and asked what was missing. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and two sons.