Bruce McWilliams
Bruce Marshall McWilliams (June 19, 1956 – September 26, 2023) was an American business executive and serial entrepreneur specializing in technology. He co-founded and managed multiple companies in the field of electronics, semiconductor, packaging and display. At the time of his death, McWilliams was Chief Executive Officer of Bossa Nova Robotics, the leading developer of service robots for the global retail industry and Chairman of TetraVue. Early life and education Bruce McWilliams was born on June 19, 1956, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in St-Louis, Missouri. McWilliams became interested in physics at an early age. Playing with electronic kits and taking electronic equipment apart, he built circuits and discovered the transistor. He wanted to understand how it was working. Later in high-school he studied The Feynman Lectures on Physics and knew that Physics was his passion. As a teenager, McWilliams was inspired to submit the solution to a complex math problem to a professor at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He was quickly admitted with a full scholarship to Carnegie Mellon, where he finished his undergraduate and doctoral studies in physics in just seven years. McWilliams obtained a B.S. (1978), M.S. (1978) and Ph.D. (1981) degrees in physics from