Nate Bolt

Nate Bolt is an entrepreneur and artist living in San Francisco. Currently serving as El Presidente of Bolt | Peters, he has overseen more remote research studies than anyone on the planet, for clients including Sony, Oracle, HP, Greenpeace, Electronic Arts, and others. Beginning in 2003, he masterminded Ethnio - the very first moderated remote research app, which is now being used around the world to recruit hundreds of thousands of live participants for research.

Nate regularly gives presentations on native environment research methods in both commercial and academic settings, and is currently co-authoring Remote Research, a book on remote testing. Working with faculty at the University of California, San Diego, he created a degree titled "Digital Technology and Society," which focused on the social impact of technology. He also completed a year of communications studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he was jailed briefly for playing drums in public without a license.