Suzanne Borders

Suzanne is the CEO and Founder of BadVR. She studied psychology at University of Missouri, Kansas City and previously worked as Lead User Experience (UX)/Product Designer for over a decade at companies such as Remine (raised $48M) and CREXi (raised $54M) where she specialized in designing intuitive, high-performant data analytic interfaces. In 2019, Suzanne founded BadVR and was awarded a “Rising Stars” innovation award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). To date, she’s raised over $4M in non-dilutive funding for BadVR, via grants from the National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Magic Leap, Qualcomm, and more. Suzanne has grown the company from two to 25 people and was awarded four patents for innovations she created while leading the BadVR team. Over the past five years, Suzanne has been a thought-leader in the immersive data visualization and analytics space. She has been a keynote speaker at over 25 national and international conferences. In her spare time, Suzanne travels for inspiration (81 countries and counting) and is proud to be a published author and former punk. Suzanne thrives at the intersection of product design, immersive technology, and data; she’s a believer in the artistry of technology and the technicality of art and remains passionately dedicated to democratizing access to data through universally accessible products.