Tim McConnell

Tim McConnell possesses over 25 years of experience developing systems for robotics and automated manufacturing. He is currently the head of product and engineering at Intrepid Automation. Previously, Tim served as President of Lattice Innovation, providing high-performance thermal solutions to the world’s largest chip manufacturers and achieving an exit through acquisition. He was VP Engineering at 3D Robotics, overseeing design, development and manufacturing of consumer and commercial UAV systems, EVP Engineering at Solekai Systems, running an 80-person engineering department in the consumer electronics and machine-to-machine areas, as well as several other San Diego startups in the automation and robotic space. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT. Tim mentors several startups locally in various robotic fields and also serves as a judge at the San Diego FIRST Robotics regional competition. He is a strong advocate of women in STEM, with a wife who recently retired from a computer science career, and three adult daughters – an engineer, a scientist and a mathematician.