Jim Myrick
About Jim Myrick
Jim Myrick is a versatile professional with a diverse skill set, an inventor, serial entrepreneur, and open innovation co-creator. An angel investor and mentor. Jim is a founding partner of SeriousFun and Neue Labs, a no-code platform for hardware based in Malmo, Sweden. He's a member of Studio 45, a professional hardware-making lab, and at Shack 15. Jim recently held residencies at Autodesk Pier 9, EiR RocketSpace, EiR Aproe, and EiR Flex. Among the first cohort of 25 startups at Flex Lab IV in Milpitas. Organizer of the Corporate Innovation Outpost Silicon Valley Meetup group. Throughout his career, Jim has pioneered industries centered around high-performance computer graphics software, cutting edge technology, and networked infrastructure. He's recognized as a CAD/CAM trailblazer, having worked at the esteemed Xerox Color Graphics Lab in Rochester, NY, and Cambridge University, UK. Jim's leadership has led to a series of award-winning and best-selling user experiences featuring iconic brands like Mickey Mouse, Snoopy, Hello Kitty, and more. He's considered a founding figure in children's Edutainment, with the release of a CD-ROM title based on Snoopy and the PEANUTS gang in 1991. Jim also produced a best-selling generative art music game, The Groove Thing, in 1993. The founder of Xcelerator Incubators in Stockholm, San Francisco, and Tokyo. Jim's credits as an Executive Producer include the Clio-winning Amnesty.excite.com website, Amnesty International's 20th-anniversary concert, BBC radio shows, international broadcast television specials, shot in Paris in 1998. He also produced conferences for Mac Services in the 90s, The Connected Car, Women in Wearables, The Sensor Fusion Fashion Show, and the Now Moment Conference. Jim holds the LinkedIn member number 376,967. His specialties encompass rapid prototyping, computational photography, gamification, AI at the edge, new product innovation and introduction, character licensing, human interface-experience design, multimedia authoring tools, telecommunications, branding, marketing, international business, computer graphics, high-end color electronic publishing, and CAD/CAM.