Meg Withgott is known for technology assessment, invention and innovation and she assists start-ups and investors in Silicon Valley. She gained her entrepreneurial experience as a founder of Paul Allen's ePLANET, which created the first consumer products that allow computer-human interaction through machine vision. Mrs. Withgott was CTO and oversaw the engineering organization.

She guided and conducted research at Xerox PARC, Interval, and Stanford's CSLI. Her technology for summarization and presentation of media has formed the basis for new companies and businesses. She has published extensively on signal-based media and language, is co-author of Computational Models of American Speech, and is an inventor on numerous patents.

Meg first worked on signal-based media at MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics and its Cognitive Science Center, while earning her Ph.D. in Linguistics from U.T. Austin. She received a B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University.