Founder & CEO
Leo founded Viewpoints after 12+ years leading research at Vine, Google, Waymo, VMware and Toyota.
As a Stanford Ph.D. in Human Computer Interaction (Communication), his publications in media psychology have 2500+ citations. His research about how people interact with new media technologies has been published at top journals and has been covered in Sports Illustrated, Psychology Today, and CNBC.
Product
Jim is an experienced researcher specializing in human-computer interaction and the psychology of media. Holding a Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University, he has authored 50+ publications in top journals and conferences, generating over 3,600 citations from studies with 12,000+ human participants.
Over the last 11+ years, he has consulted for projects at major firms (Cisco, Meta) and start-ups alike, for products ranging from virtual reality to social gaming. He has also served as a UX researcher at Google X.
Strategic Advisor
Byron is a Stanford University Chaired Professor with appointments in Communication, Symbolic Systems and Graduate School of Education.
He has published over 200 scientific papers in media psychology with >30K Google Scholar citations; h-index=70. He is the author of award-winning books: The Media Equation and Total Engagement.
He holds three software patents in human-computer interaction with two patents pending for AI and media evaluations. He is co-founder of two early-stage startups in computational human-media interactions.
He spent two years at Microsoft Research developing automated dialogue systems. He has been a consultant to leading companies including P&G, Disney, ABC, Accenture, Google, Best Buy, SAP, Amazon, Toyota, Salesforce, State Farm, and United Healthcare.
Strategic Advisor
Avery served as SVP and General Counsel of AAA Automobile Club of Southern California and its affiliated Interinsurance Exchange from 2002-2019. In such capacity he supervised more than 100 in-house attorneys, paralegals and other staff handling a wide variety of transactional, regulatory, corporate governance, and litigation matters, including all class action, employment and insurance claims related litigation.
Previously, he was a partner in the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers LLP. He is a 1989 graduate of the UCLA School of Law where he served on the UCLA Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He received his BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 1986.
Avery previously served on the Board of Governors of the Tiger Woods Foundation and the Board of Trustees of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. He was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the UC Irvine School of Law from 2012-2015.