Ray Kurzweil | Director | United Therapeutics Leadership

Background

Mr. Kurzweil is an inventor, entrepreneur, and author, and has created several important technologies in the artificial intelligence field. He has received the National Medal of Technology, the MIT Lemelson Prize, twenty-one honorary doctorates, a Grammy award for his contributions to music technology, and honors from three U.S. Presidents. In 2002, Mr. Kurzweil was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Since 1995, Mr. Kurzweil has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Kurzweil Technologies, Inc., a technology development firm. Beginning January 2013, he also served as a Director of Engineering, and later as Principal Researcher and AI Visionary for Google, a global technology and Internet search company, until 2025. Beginning in 2025, he has served as Chief AI Officer for Beyond Imagination, a humanoid robotics company he co-founded in 2013. Mr. Kurzweil previously served on the boards of directors of Inforte Corp. and Medical Manager Corporation, both of which were publicly-traded.

Mr. Kurzweil has a B.S. in Computer Science and Literature from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.