Charles Partee

Chief Technology Officer

Charles Partee is the CTO of Syght Inc. and the General Manager and Director of Engineering, Europe of Syght GmbH where he leads invention, research, and early development of Syght’s next generation technologies.

Prior to founding Syght Inc. and Syght GmbH, he was a project leader and architect engineer at Fortune 50 companies like Digital, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and HP, and has held C-level positions at 7 high-tech startups, 4 of which he founded. He has raised over $20 M in angel and venture funding. With Syght, he has received SBIR Phase I and II awards from the National Science Foundation, SBIR Phase I and II awards from the Department of Defense, and an SBIR Phase II award from the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate. The team he leads has also won awards in two Army xTech competitions. He has 30 issued patents, with more pending.

Charles has B.A. degrees in physics and math, an M.S. degree from Carnegie Mellon in electrical engineering, and took 5 years of post-graduate education in condensed matter physics at MIT. He splits his time between Boulder, CO in the United States and Küssnacht am Rigi in Switzerland, and enjoys playing ice hockey, telemark skiing, training for triathlons, open-water swimming, rock climbing, and hut-to-hut hiking.