Dan Gardner

Dan Gardner started as CEO of ViewPlus in 2015, joining his parents and founders of ViewPlus, John and Carolyn Gardner. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego. He has a wide variety of experience in engineering, management, finance, and business strategy. 

By working collaboratively around the world, ViewPlus is asserting itself to improve opportunities in education and employment for blind and visually impaired students and professionals. While there is still much work to be done, the successful management transition to a second generation means ViewPlus can continue helping make information accessible to all. 

Dan lives in Corvallis, Oregon with his wife, Susannah, and their two children. Susannah joined ViewPlus shortly after Dan and both kids occasionally work there as well. While those closest to him claim he works all the time, Dan enjoys traveling, hiking and all kinds of sports.

John Gardner, Ph.D.

John Gardner is known as an expert in several fields of experimental solid-state physics as well as information accessibility. He lost his sight unexpectedly in mid-career as Professor of Physics and became interested in accessibility of complex information, including math and graphics. In 1996 he founded ViewPlus Technologies, which has grown into a multi-million-dollar company producing information-access hardware and software. ViewPlus is the leading manufacturer of tactile graphics and braille embossers in the world. He has received numerous awards and has given invited presentations on both physics and information accessibility on five continents.

Doug Schepers

Doug is the founder and director of Fizz Studio, a small startup focusing on making data visualizations accessible to people with disabilities. He began this work while working as a project manager for the W3C, organizing and authoring web standards for over a decade. Since then, he’s been doing consulting, software development, and research to make access to data universal. He uses his own adult-diagnosed ADHD as a tool to help synthesize ideas from across different domains, and as an intuitive gauge for cognitive load.

Peter Linss

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