Entrepreneur Speaker Series Returns with Start-up Founder and Investor Alumnus

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Cody Sumter will kick off the 2024-25 Tru-Entrepreneur Speaker Series at 12:30 p.m. Sept. 11 in the Doug and Diane Villhard Innovation Lab in Pickler Memorial Library.

A start-up founder and investor based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sumter (’10) graduated from Truman with a degree in computer science. He received his master’s degree in technology policy from MIT where he researched using cellphones as a sensor platform to study social dynamics and human behavior. Sumter co-founded Behavio, a mobile sensing company acquired by Google in 2013. He has since led product teams at Google, Facebook and Uber.

While at Truman, Sumter was involved in the astronomy research program, working on and leading several projects at the Truman Observatory and Lowell Observatory, studying both near-Earth asteroids and Delta Scuti stars in eclipsing binary systems. In addition, he served for three years as the student representative on Truman’s Board of Governors and was a member of the University Foundation Board.
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