Peter Shann Ford

Peter is the founder and chairman of Control Bionics, and the inventor of NeuroSwitch: wearable bionic technology that restores communication for people with profound disabilities.

He Beta tested it with Professor Stephen Hawking from 2002 to 2007.

A former infantry officer in the Royal Australian Regiment, he was the first Australian news anchor at CNN, covering medicine, the military, and NASA’s Space Shuttle program, and for NBC from Moscow, The Vatican, the Gulf War, Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier and Afghanistan.

He was a founding coder in one of the first US government R&D labs to develop computer systems for severely disabled people.

Peter’s first novel, The Keeper of Dreams, is published by Simon & Schuster, New York, and is on Kindle as Dreaming Country.

He was a subject of ABC TV’s “Australian Story”, a NSW Senior Australian of the Year, and a winner of the Australian National Disability Award for Accessible Technology, and of the first Pitch@Palace Commonwealth.