Ross Finman is the AR Strategy Lead at Niantic, the company behind Pokemon GO and Harry Potter Wizards Unite. Niantic is building a state-of-the-art, planet-scale augmented reality platform for current and future generations of AR hardware.

Ross joined Niantic through the acquisition of his AR technology company, Escher Reality. He started Escher Reality while pursuing his PhD in Robotics at MIT.

On the whole, Ross describes himself as an entrepreneur with over a decade of experience at the intersection of the digital and physical worlds through Augmented Reality and Robotics.