Hemi Thaker is a successful entrepreneur, technologist and leader. He has co-founded four companies, including Anue Systems, which was sold to Ixia Communications in 2012 and Sybarus Technologies, which was sold to Lucent Technologies in 1999. An Inc 500 CEO and a recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Central Texas in 2011, he has seventeen patents granted. Hemi is also a co-founder of Waterloo Springs, a non-profit dedicated to creating self-sustaining ecosystems to continually better the lives of those in need using frugal engineering and design thinking. The Waterloo Springs team has designed, implemented and put into field trials a water transportation device drawing on "Build-Measure-Learn" principles to solve water access problems in developing countries. Hemi holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Alberta and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo.