Christopher Hoffmann

After appearing on multiple broadcast and Internet-distributed Tech Shows, and Hundreds of print and online media articles, Chris’ life has been defined by innovation and entrepreneurship. Hand-built childhood boats evolved into catapults, cross-bows, and ultimately to designing industrial robotics for fifteen years in the Detroit Auto industry. He then went on to six years in technology and consumer product design, with a three-year immersion in a skunk-works like innovation lab.

Fighting to continually outdo himself, Chris went on to build a globally-positioned personal-transportation technology start-up RYNO Motors. Born from an electric one-wheel motorcycle his then-13-year-old daughter saw in a video game, he embarked on an archetypal gladiator battle between man and machine that almost consumed Chris for seven years.

Today RYNO Motors is expanding its reach to a global business where it licenses technologies to other companies to allow them to thrive and create new jobs.
Currently, Chris is focused on writing and speaking to diverse audiences around the world on his main passions: innovation, the future of transportation and the human culture of successful teams. Speaking talk titles include; The Vulnerability of Innovation, The Future of Urban Transportation and How Our Hands, Create our Reality.