Tom Lupfer
Advisory Council Member
GTSC Commissioner for Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, President & Founder at Clarity Design, Inc.
Tom Lupfer is the Founder and President of Clarity Design, a product design and manufacturing firm based in San Diego. Clarity Design has brought hundreds of products from concept to production in the medical device, health & wellness, consumer, industrial, retail, and defense markets. Lupfer is an investor, founder, and CTO of several US-based start-up companies. Tom serves on the board of trustees at the University of San Diego, where he is also a professor of practice in computer science. Lupfer received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and his MA in Engineering and Economics at Oxford University, where he studied on a Marshall Scholarship.
Trust is essential in business, all the more so when the exchange involves technological intellectual property that can easily be distributed without due compensation. Software and low-latency networking are the key enablers of advanced manufacturing and robotics and must be developed and deployed securely among trusted partners.