Joe Mohen
Joe Mohen is chairman of Neocortex Robotics, a physical AI software company that automates warehouse and materials-handling work by directing standard industrial robots. He has founded four technology companies and has been a principal in more than thirty mergers and acquisitions, working with strategic and institutional investors.
He began his career at Chase and Citibank, spending six years as a software engineer before founding Proginet, which he bootstrapped and later took public; Microsoft became its second-largest shareholder, and its software ran across more than eleven operating systems. He later co-founded Election.com, which in March 2000 ran the Arizona Democratic presidential primary — the first legally binding public election ever conducted over the internet, where turnout rose more than 500% — and was then selected by ICANN to run the first worldwide internet election. Its board included Jack Kemp and former Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald, and Accenture later acquired its public-sector business.
He founded ParishPay, which automated the handling of collections with bank debits for dioceses across the United States; it was acquired by Yapstone in 2012 and again by Liturgical Publications in 2017, and is known today as WeShare. He also founded SpiralFrog, one of the first music streaming services and the first to license the major record labels’ catalogs for free, advertising-supported distribution — a deal the Financial Times led with in August 2006, years before Spotify. He later led the leveraged buyout of Nylon Media during its transition from print to digital and served as interim CEO. He subsequently built a platform for streaming 3D holographic media in tourist attractions.
Mohen testified before Congress on election modernization in a hearing introduced by Senator Charles Schumer. He has been interviewed by CNBC, CNN, CBS News, NBC News and Fox News, and internationally by the BBC, NHK in Japan and Globo in Brazil. His companies have been covered by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Reuters, Wired, Billboard, Variety and The Guardian, including a Bloomberg Businessweek cover story on internet voting. He has written for Fortune, Ad Age, Computerworld, Broadcasting & Cable, Network World and eWeek, and has spoken at Financial Times digital conferences. He majored in mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, where he also studied chemistry and biochemistry, and later studied engineering and business at Manhattan University.
