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Mick founded Kiva Systems in January 2003 after spending thirteen years in high tech product development, manufacturing, operations and marketing. Prior to Kiva, Mick worked on a business process team at Webvan designing a next generation distribution strategy for grocery home delivery, during which he experienced first-hand the high cost of order fulfillment and the inflexibility of existing technologies. Prior to joining Webvan, Mick spent three years in product marketing at Apple Computer as a Product Manager where he helped move many new technologies into the standard desktop platform including FireWire, DVD, Fast Ethernet, and 3D graphics acceleration. He began his career at Motorola, where he spent seven years working as both a Mechanical and a Manufacturing Engineer. Mick holds five United States technology patents. He earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School. | 