IAM Robotics CEO and leadership

Lance was instrumental in the scaling of a Bain Capital Ventures tech startup, Kiva Systems that lead to its acquisition by Amazon for $775M in 2012. He became CEO of Aria Insights in 2016, a Drone business founded in 2008 by an iRobot founder. He sold the assets of the business to FLIR in 2019. He currently leads the commercial efforts of the Apollo Global Management affiliate Takkion Holdings. He is the independent board member for Diligent Robotics.

IAM Robotics announces that founder, Tom Galluzzo, will become the company’s Chief Technology Officer and names current Vice President, Joel Reed, as the new Chief Executive Officer. Reed, who joined IAM Robotics to build sales and marketing functions, will lead the company into a new phase of growth as the logistics market turns to robots that can both pick and transport inventory items to address industry worker shortages. Reed has nearly 25 years of leadership experience bringing innovative ideas and products to market. He began his career as a technology consultant at Ernst & Young (now Cap Gemini) but ultimately was drawn to an entrepreneurial track. His accomplishments include helping introduce the first mobile-based online storage solution at i-drive.com; developing and executing the commercialization plan of a 3D LIDAR data processing platform at Allpoint Systems, which was acquired by Autodesk; and establishing the market presence for a new class of autonomous AGVs (automated guided vehicles) at Seegrid, a leader of self-driving vehicles for material handling.

John Cameron is a Chief Robotics Engineer at IAM Robotics and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has worked as Principal Investigator at Harris Corporation, Undergraduate Researcher at Stony Brook University, and Graduate Research Assistant at Penn State University. John studied at Penn State University between 2003 and 2005, Udacity between 2018 and 2018, and Stony Brook University between 1998 and 2003.