Tom Wolfe is the head of IP and defense legal at Kodiak AI, Inc. Kodiak provides AI-powered autonomous vehicle technology designed to help tackle some of the toughest driving jobs. Kodiak's vision is to become the trusted world leader in autonomous ground transportation. Kodiak serves the long-haul trucking, industrial trucking, and defense industries. At Kodiak, Mr. Wolfe has spent the last four years at Kodiak building its patent portfolio and helping to navigate the growth of the company from a series B startup to a public listing on Nasdaq. Mr. Wolfe previously worked at Medtronic, PLC and Smith & Nephew PLC, as well as law firms. Mr. Wolfe holds an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering and a master's degree in biomedical engineering where he used an artificial neural network (ANN) to discriminate control signals from electromyogram (EMG) signals in a neural prosthetic controller for spinal cord injured patients.