registered dietitians to create the first personalized nutrition scoring algorithm leveraging machine learning and dietetics. Shopwell was acquired by HarvestMark in 2013, which was again acquired by Innit in 2016. Yummly In 2009, Witlin was appointed as a head of mobile & platform of the personalized recipe recommendations and search platform, Yummly by their board of directors. He handled day-to-day operations and opened its API to other companies as a paid service. By 2014, it has 15 million active users in the US and was named "Best of 2014" in Apple's App Store. He became the chief executive officer of the company in October 2016. Under his leadership, Yummly grew from 1M to 27M registered users, before acquired by the appliance manufacturer Whirlpool in 2017 for an undisclosed amount. Fine artist Witlin is a classically trained artist, claiming to be the first cyborg artist utilizing his classical training and AI. Brian has created hundreds of replications of his own artistic brain using computer vision and machine learning. He collaborates with these AI (artificial intelligence) models to create each composition which is then rendered in oil on canvas. His practice largely speaks to the growing relationship between human and machine while examining the role technology plays in everyday life. He is represented by Melissa Morgan Fine Art and JJ Harrington Gallery. Public speaking Witlin speaks frequently at conferences and industry events on the topics of artificial intelligence, marketing automation and user growth, such as SXSW, Growth Beat, VentureBeat Webinars, Smart Kitchen Summit and Health 2.0 conferences. He has also participated in the design forums and has given lectures at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. Others Witlin holds 8 patents that are registered in his name. He is the current advisor of startups, including Directly, Zeel and Upside, and has also served as an advisor 500 Startups, StartX, and the Designer Fund earlier. He is also the founder of Diamond MMA, a premium martial arts protective equipment manufacturer and an Apple Watch band company, Archr.co. Apart from business, Witlin is also a trained fine art artist and photographer. He is also a lecturer at the Stanford University's at Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, where he runs executive education programs and coaches students about entrepreneurship. References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Businesspeople from Chicago Lehigh University alumni Stanford University School of Engineering alumni American painters