James Green

CEO

James is passionate about bringing meaningful change to the world. When he first discovered what Dr. Mirhaji had built he jumped at the opportunity to bring Cognome to life. In addition to being CEO of Cognome, he’s also a co-founder and a board member of Open Squash a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose mission is to make the sport of squash more accessible. 

Fun Facts

• At Magnetic (which James ran from 2011→2017) he grew revenue from $1 to $100 million before it was sold to Deloitte.
• He ran PVI which is now owned by ESPN and is the technology used to show the first down lines in (American) football.
• James was CEO of the World Series of Video Games, one of the pioneers of e-sports.
• He got his entrepreneurial inspiration from Steve Jobs whom we worked for at Pixar Animation Studios where he ran marketing and new business development for Steve.
• James is happily married with two children despite having made his family live on a boat for a year while they sailed around the world (2010-11). 
• James started his career as a musician and graduated from McGill University with a B. Music – ‘cello
• James also holds an MBA from the Anderson school @ UCLA.