Our Story

Tim Rosa joined Somnee as our new CEO in November 2023. Tim has over 20 years of experience in consumer and enterprise marketing, business management, and launching world-class brands, products, and services. Previously, Tim served as the Chief Marketing Officer at Fitbit, where he was pivotal in establishing the category of connected health and fitness wearable products. He built the organization’s global marketing function, growing it from 5 to more than 120, and in turn, helped Fitbit IPO and become a beloved top 20 consumer brand with more than 140M devices sold in over 100 countries and 40,000 retailers, and ultimately selling to Google for $2.1 billion. Tim has advised or worked for brands, including Electronic Arts, 2K Sports, ESPN Videogames, and Jasper Health. Tim attended the University of Michigan-Flint and enjoys sleeping 7.5 hours each night and being active, whether surfing, mountain biking, trail running, CrossFit, or Yoga.

Dr. Matthew Walker earned his PhD in neurophysiology from the Medical Research Council in London, UK, and subsequently became an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School in 2004. He is currently Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley, where he directs the Center for Human Sleep Science. Walker is the recipient of funding awards from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and in 2006, became a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. He investigates the role of sleep in human health and disease. He does so using brain imaging methods (MRI, PET scanning), high-density sleep EEG recordings, genomics, proteomics, autonomic physiology, and cognitive testing. Walker addresses issues of both wellness and disease. Disorders that he currently tackles include Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, cancer, depression, anxiety, insomnia, cardiovascular disease, drug abuse, obesity and diabetes. His Center's goal, unachievable as they may be: to understand everything about sleep's impact on the human being, from birth to death, in health and in sickness. Walker is the author of the International Bestseller, Why We Sleep. The book has been translated into over 40 different languages, and was listed as one of Bill Gates's top 5 favorite books of 2019. Walker has also given a main-stage TED talk, viewed over 13 million times. Dr. Walker is on the Somnee founding research team that drove the published study validating our technology.

Dr. Rich Ivry is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at UC Berkeley. He earned a BS in Psychology from Brown University and a PhD from the University of Oregon. He has served as the chair of Psychology and director of the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Prof. Ivry heads the Cognition and Action lab, using various tools of cognitive neuroscience to explore human performance in healthy and neurologically impaired populations. He is a co-author of Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind, a textbook that has helped train a generation of students. His research contributions have been recognized with major honors including the Troland Prize from the National Academy of Sciences and the William James Award for lifetime achievement from the Association for Psychological Science. Prof. Ivry is a fellow of the APS, the Society of Experimental Psychology, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Health for over 30 years, including a recipient of the Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Ivry is a world-renowned expert on using non-invasive brain stimulation to enhance human performance and is on the Somnee founding research team that drove the published study validating our technology.