Jay LeBoeuf is a technology executive and entrepreneur in the media creation and production industry. He leads Business Development at creative platform Descript. Previously, Jay founded industry-education-nonprofit Real Industry. In only 5 years, Real Industry's network grew to support 10,000 students at over 40 top universities, partnering with Sonos, Bose, Facebook, Pandora, Autodesk, and over 100 private donors. In 2008, Jay founded Imagine Research, an early music technology startup that pioneered artificial intelligence in music / post production and content recommendation. In 2012, iZotope acquired Imagine Research and Jay joined iZotope's executive team leading research & development, technology strategy, and intellectual property. His career began with a decade serving as engineer and then researcher in the Advanced Technology Group at Avid, contributing to Grammy and Academy Award-winning Pro Tools software and hardware. For over 10 years, Jay has lectured on media technology and business at Stanford. He holds adjunct appointments at Carnegie Mellon and Univ of Michigan, and was honored as a Bloomberg Business Innovator.