Carl Vogel

Partner & Head of Research

2022 - Current

Angel Investor

2022

Select Angel Investments: - Monad (monad.xyz) - Jito: (jito.wtf) - Magna (magna.so) - Arcium (arcium.com) - Baxus (baxus.co) - Fantasy Top (fantasy.top)

Senior Product Manager

2020 - 2022

Head of Defi. Product Lead for Wallet, Tokenization, NFTs, and PAX Gold.

Product Manager

2018 - 2020

SMART HOME ECOSYSTEM, GOOGLE NEST - Ecosystem PM Lead for Lighting, Security, and Growth

Product Manager Intern

2017 - 2017

Develop product features for Google Voice and Google Dialer (i.e. “Phone” app)

Strategic Analyst

2014 - 2016

Electric Boat, a division of General Dynamics, designs and builds nuclear submarines for the U.S. Navy. Over 14,000 employees and $6.5B annual revenue. Strategic Analyst (Washington, DC) Presented recommendations quarterly to the executive staff based on the characterization of economic, warfighting, technology, and business competitor trends • Shaped company’s unmanned systems strategy by analyzing autonomous vehicle capabilities and trends • Oversaw 5-person team that prototyped a watertight connector designed to transfer power between the submarine and a large underwater object • Coordinated enterprise-wide innovation assessment to evaluate innovation processes and efficacy

On-Site Engineering Representative

2014 - 2014

Educated Navy engineers on submarine design decisions and identified new opportunities for General Dynamics • Secured acoustics configuration management work for select Government Furnished Equipment (GFE)

Principal Investigator: Technology Exploration Project

2011 - 2013

Led the Technology Exploration (Tech-X) project designed to identify and assess emerging technologies • Oversaw 11 different technology assessments, including swarm robotics and augmented reality • Developed investment theses and technology roadmaps to influence company’s R&D portfolio • Managed $500k annual budget and 10-12 engineers per year during their rotation into Tech-X • Conceived and implemented company’s first ever crowdsourcing event to identify nascent technologies

Senior Engineer

2010 - 2011

Calculated structureborne and airborne noise criteria for various submarine components and systems. • Eliminated $1,000 recurring monthly cost to certify finite element analysis (FEA) acoustic models by developing a Materials’ Properties Database in MATLAB • Managed $7,500 senior design project for University of Hartford acoustical engineering students to determine vibration transfer functions for a fluid filled tank

Adjunct Professor: Mathematics Department

2012 - 2012

• Responsible for all aspects of teaching M116 - Contemporary Mathematics • Course Topics Include: Voting Methods, Monte Carlo Simulation, Euler and Hamiltonian Graphs, and Recursive Sequences for financial applications • Received instructor evaluation of 4.35/5 during first semester teaching (Math Dept. average was 4.29/5)