John Blackmon

CTO and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer , ELB Learning

As CTO/Chief AI Officer for ELB Learning, John Blackmon is responsible for the development and strategy of company products. Prior to ELB Learning, John was co-founder/CEO of Trivantis, where he created the flagship products, Lectora and CenarioVR. John was also co-founder/lead engineer at BocaSoft, which created various software utilities for the OS/2 operating system. His career started at Electronic Data Systems where he designed automatic identification systems for applications at General Motors, followed by time at IBM where he was awarded a patent for seamlessly running Windows applications under OS/2. He also has a patent pending for Responsive Course Design work.