Lars Dyrud
CEO and Executive Board Member at EarthOptics
Lars Dyrud has founded three companies. He enjoys advising engineers and scientists on innovation and entrepreneurism.
Prior to EarthOptics, Lars founded, developed, and led OmniEarth to a successful exit through acquisition by EagleView Technologies, where he most recently served as the Senior Vice President of Business Development. OmniEarth developed and provided machine-learning-based imagery analytics tools to the insurance, public utility, and land management industries. In his career as a scientist Lars has served as PI on R&D grants and contracts from NSF, DOE, NASA, AFOSR, Air Force SMC, and industry in range of Earth and Space Science and engineering applications.
He was the founder of the APL Center for Public/Private Partnerships and has led space-related missions and projects as head of the Earth and Space Science group at Draper Laboratory and previously as senior scientist and section lead at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in the areas of space physics, GPS tomography, Novel Earth observation missions, and mobile applications.
Lars is from Minneapolis MN, received a BA in Physics from Augsburg College. He was a Fulbright Scholar in space and plasma physics at the University of Oslo and received a Ph.D. from Boston University.
