Co-Founder
Apple Computer Company
RONALD G. WAYNE – Born in Cleveland, Ohio on May 17, 1934 is a true “Renaissance“ man. He is best known as one of the co-founders of the Apple Computer Company, along with the principle movers of that enterprise, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. It was an adventure that occupied only a small part of his life – as compared to the times he was engaged in the designing and building of slot machines, and other professional gaming products. He’s a well-credentialed inventor, holding nearly a dozen U.S. Patents covering a range of fundamental concepts.
He graduated from the School of Industrial Arts, New York City in 1953, and then conducted a program of self education that supported a life-long career in electro-mechanical engineering and product development. In the mid 1970s he developed a friendship with Steve Jobs which eventually led to their joint founding of the Apple Computer Company – an enterprise based on the inventive genius of Steve Wozniak, combined with the astounding organizational skills and dynamic drive of Steve Jobs.
He is also an exceptional illustrator, a whimsical writer, a compulsive model-builder, a skilled machinist and a ravenous researcher into the nature of socio-politics and socio-economics. Some of these skills were combined to support his fifty-year career in electro-mechanical engineering and product development.
He now lives in semi-retirement in the small town of Pahrump, Nevada.
Ron has spoken at the Emerging Media Conference in San Francisco – January 2012 and is slated to Keynote at the Emerging Media Conference in Seattle, WA this June 2012.
