Brian Howell is the CEO, co-founder, and technical architect for Genwell. His career includes senior positions at SAP, Wells Fargo, Alcatel, Williams-Sonoma, and the State of California's Administrative Office of the Courts, as well as several start-ups.

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Brian taught himself programming when he was in grade school. In his early 20's he co-designed an MIMD hypercube supercomputer. He later designed and co-wrote AutoCore, an application to acquire and visualize data from a triaxial, robotic superconducting magnetometer, for the Berkeley Geochronology Center (BGC), a UC-Berkeley affiliated laboratory. BGC's worldwide reputation is very much attributable to the quantity and quality of the data it collected using AutoCore.

 

At Silicon Graphics (SGI), Brian designed and implemented the user interface for the company's multi-cast video platform, MediaBase’s. MediaBase won Internet World’s “Best in Show” primarily for its ease of use. Brian was also the first engineer hired and became System Architect for Match.com, up until its $50M acquisition by Universal.

 

At Genwell, Brian designed the user experience, designed, programmed, and manages the cloud deployment of, Eureka!, Genwell’s innovative sourcing platform. In his spare time Brian loves to read, travel, hike, backpack, sail, cross-country ski, photograph, and write. He is strongly committed to environmental awareness, fighting climate change and pollution, and minimizing loss of biodiversity.

 

Brian is the son of world-renowned biological anthropologist, archeologist, paleontologist, and author, F. Clark Howell, whose book, Early Man, is the source of the world famous image, The March of Progress.