We’re Nest. We reinvent things.

We take the unloved products in your home and make simple, beautiful, thoughtful things.

Our people are Nest.

Our team.

We take what’s familiar and look at it in a new light. Our team focuses on making technology that’s simple, fresh and helpful.

At the end of the day, look at our product and you’ll see a reflection of the people who made it.

– Tony Fadell

Tony Fadell

Tony Fadell

Title

Founder & CEO

Bio

Tony led the team that created the first 18 generations of the iPod and the first three generations of the iPhone. Before Apple, Tony built the Mobile Computing Group at Philips Electronics. Tony has authored more than 300 patents. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelors in Computer Engineering.
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Matt Rogers

Matt Rogers

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Founder & Engineering

Bio

Matt was responsible for iPod software development at Apple, from concept to production. He is passionate about mobile products, loves team building and rapid productization. Matt earned his BS and MS degrees from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Shige Honjo

Shige Honjo

Title

Program Management and Manufacturing

Bio

Shige has more than 20 years of consumer electronics design, development, and execution experience on more than a dozen mobile phones and other products. Prior to Nest, Shige was the lead engineering program manager at Apple for several early generations of iPhone from concept to ramp. He received his BS in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Chip Lutton

Chip Lutton

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General Counsel

Bio

Chip spent 10 years as Apple’s associate general counsel for intellectual property, securing and protecting Apple’s innovations during the iPod-iPhone-iPad decade. He’s also worked at Sun Microsystems and for the current Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has a law degree from Columbia University and a BS in electrical engineering from Rice University.
Yoky Matsuoka

Yoky Matsuoka

Title

Technology

Bio

Yoky served as the Head of Innovation at Google and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington before joining Nest. She graduated from UC Berkeley and earned an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. She received the MacArthur Genius Award for her work in robotics and neuroscience.
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Doug Sweeny

Doug Sweeny

Title

Marketing

Bio

Doug has more than 20 years of experience leading marketing for iconic, global brands like Levi's, adidas and General Motors EV1. He was VP of Global Marketing for Levi's and architect of the Go Forth campaign in which he was selected by Advertising Age as one of the Top 50 Innovative Marketers today. Doug graduated with a BS from Syracuse University.
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Tom
vonReichbauer

Tom vonReichbauer

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Business & Finance

Bio

Tom joined Nest from Tesla Motors where he was the company’s Director of Finance. Prior to Tesla, Tom held several financial management roles at Ford Motor Company. He has a BS in economics and an MBA, both from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.