Mat Chacon

Mat Chacon is CEO and co-founder of virtual reality company Doghead Simulations, which makes the VR education and training platform named rumii. Mat started his company to fundamentally improve how people around the world educate and train using VR. Named a top 20 VR executive, Mat helped grow his company to a global leader with over 7,000 educational institutions, enterprise companies, and government agencies using rumii every day. Growing up in poverty, Mat couldn’t afford college, so he helped start a website development company in 1994 and took part in the $63 million USWeb IPO when he was 25. By 35, he was a successful software startup executive and by 45 Mat was named a top 20 VR executive. He eventually attended college when he could afford it and now teaches online education for free inside rumii. Virtual Reality is Mat's passion, but education is his purpose. You can follow Mat on Twitter @TheVRCEO