Frank Canova is the creative force behind CanovaLabs. He previously created the first smart phone and several other breakthrough products. He is the author of 60 issued patents and has filed for a dozen others. In short, pioneering work is his passion. It is through that passion that he established CanovaLabs as an environment to help people create technologies that build better lives.

Frank has been a senior engineering manager at several successful companies in Silicon Valley and is a master at software, hardware, and wireless integration. He is the co-founder and CTO at Rithm AI, and recently managed AI Device engineering at Amazon Web Services. Previously he worked at Coherent to create ultrafast lasers, at Neato Robotics to create self-driving robots, and was also a senior executive at Palm to create the the PalmPilot and many of its successors.

Canova’s years as an innovator have also led him to manage engineering in several startups such as Steve Wozniak’s GPS tracking startup “Wheels of Zeus”, as a co-founder of Livescribe to create a successful line of "SmartPens", and to lead PlasticLogic engineering where he created a unique tablet with a flexible display that wirelessly shared newspapers, documents and books.

He holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology.