The Biography of Kai Staats
Kai Staats is an entrepreneur now returning to his roots as an inventor and consultant through Over the Sun, LLC.
In 1999 Staats co-founded and for ten years was CEO of Terra Soft Solutions, developer of Yellow Dog Linux. Staats’ leadership helped to shape Linux for the Power architecture in the high performance computing space, with client projects ranging from helping to process images from the Mars rovers for the NASA / JPL Multi-mission Image Processing Laboratory (MIPL) to real-time sonar image processing for the Navy; from ground-based flight simulators for Boeing B1 bomber pilots to a bioinformatics cluster for Argonne National Lab. In 2009 Staats sold the largest Sony PS3 cluster in the world to the U.S. Air Force Research Lab in Rome, New York.
As a business development consultant, Staats returns to his work in the late ’90s where he used corporate story telling as a means to building brand identity, equity, and overall corporate prosperity through the telling of real success stories in both print and film.
Staats holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Industrial Design from the Arizona State College of Architecture & Environmental Design, more than a decade of experience in open source product development, professional and creative writing, intellectual property development, and a passion for learning, teaching, and problem solving in both the social and technology sectors.