Andrew Tauhert is Chief Impact Officer at XPRIZE. He has 30 years of experience in enterprise leadership and operations across Fortune 50 companies, startups and global nonprofits, with a focus on deep technology applied to value creation and sustainability. At XPRIZE he has also served as Chief Advancement Officer and VP of Strategy and Partnerships. He personally led the funding and launch of the largest incentive competition in history ($150M) and has capitalized over $300M in XPRIZE competitions. He created the programs that led to catalyzing over $12B in investment in XPRIZE ventures. These include XPRIZE’s first Accelerator and an innovator network of more than 1,300 startups. He also created the first impact framework for the prize industry, which demonstrated a 60X ROI and more than $32B in impact returns.

Before XPRIZE, Andrew was COO of Prodea Systems. He led product, engineering, operations, sales and corporate development there, and the company became the first global IoT platform company. He led acquisitions, including the largest consumer-products IoT SaaS platform in the industry, and led global engineering teams of more than 150 engineers. He started as Director of Engineering at Nortel Networks, where he was part of the senior technology leadership of one of the world’s largest telecom vendors. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and his experience includes patent portfolio development and management. He is an Unreasonable Mentor, Falling Walls jury member and holds multiple board and advisory positions in technology, innovation and sustainability.