Andrew Thompson is co-founder, president and chief executive officer of Proteus Digital Health. His vision for Digital Medicine is focused on expanding global access to care, dramatically increasing the value delivered by drugs and creating a sustainable model for innovation that leverages the cell phone in everyone’s pocket.
Andrew serves on the World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers selection committee and he is also a Co-Founder and Board member of Summit Schools, a leading Charter High School organization with a unique digital platform. Andrew is active in digital humanities innovation with Stanford University and Cambridge University and a Co-Founder of Parker Library Online – the leading destination for digital medieval studies.
He holds masters degrees in Engineering (Cambridge), Education (Stanford) and Business (Stanford GSB) and has a successful 25 year track record starting and building technology based healthcare companies in Silicon Valley.
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Why Digital Tech Will Create More Jobs than it Destroys
Many worry that new digital tools, robots and artificial intelligence are going to replace entry-level and middle class jobs. I appreciate the concern, but I disagree. Just as electricity created vastly more jobs than it destroyed in the 20th century, the mobile internet will do the same in the 21st.
