Education
Ithaca College.
Ithaca College.
Hodosh previously led the Archon Genomics X PRIZE, which followed the Ansari Space X PRIZE. He has been a consultant to inventor Dean Kamen at DEKA Research & Development and also chaired Kamen"s FIRST Robotics competition within the Boston region. Earlier, Hodosh founded and sold Idaho One, which specialized in facial recognition technology for the United States Military and Intelligence communities. He also led business development at Viisage, a previously publicly traded, facial recognition company.
Hodosh"s first business and entrepreneurial endeavors began by inventing and importing a variety of consumer products from Asia, with distribution through Bed Bath & Beyond, Quality, Value, Convenience television, Toys-R-Us, and others
Hodosh graduated from Ithaca College in Ithaca, New New York He moved to Boston in 1995 for Boston University Medical School but after a year, he instead decided to focus on inventing & patenting consumer products. Marc Hodosh bought the rights to in 2008 from TED creator Richard Saul Wurman, although the event had not taken place for many years.
In 2009, Hodosh re-launched at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, California where it was held for the next three years and where Hodosh served as Host. Wurman co-hosted the event with Hodosh for the first two years.
