Mick Mountz

Michael C. "Mick" Mountz (born May 5, 1965) is an American entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Kiva Systems, which makes order fulfillment systems using mobile robots for warehouse automation. The company was bought by Amazon.com in March 2012.[1]

He is an MIT (1987)[2] and Harvard (1996)[3] alumnus, and part of the MIT Deans Advisory Committee for the School of Engineering.[4]

In 2008, Mountz won the IEEE/IFR Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award along with Kiva co-founders Peter Wurman and Raffaello D’Andrea,[5] as well as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the New England region.[6]

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  5. ^ "IEEE/IFR Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award". IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
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