Jacob Boyle is the founder of MARCo Health - the world's leading company in affordable and accessible mental health care through compassionate social robots. Jacob founded MARCo Health in 2018 after years of struggling with his own mental health and seeing close friends and family members struggle to get care. Leveraging his 8 years of experience in advanced robotics and 4 years in medical devices, Jacob developed "MARCo: the Mental-Health Assisting Robot Companion" from scratch and brought it from a dorm-room prototype to a globally recognized, cutting edge mental health support tool worldwide.

Outside of MARCo Health, Jacob has also led a team of engineers at the military robotics startup GuardBot Inc. and John Hopkins' Applied Physics Laboratory in developing an advanced amphibious explosives ordinance and disposal robotics system for the US Navy's AEDORS initiative. He's also a published biotechnology researcher, accredited psychiatry and AI speaker, and has spearheaded the 510(k) applications of numerous medical devices in the physical and nuclear medicine spaces. He currently also serves as an AI business consultant for several startups and small businesses ranging from healthcare, education, and home services, and runs courses around implementing AI into small business applications.