Thomas Reardon

Thomas Reardon is a computational neuroscientist and entrepreneur who currently serves as co-founder and co-CEO of Flourish, an AI startup, and as a venture partner at Lux Capital. He previously co-founded CTRL-labs, a neural interface company acquired by Meta in 2019, where he served as Vice President of Research until late 2025. He is best known for creating the Internet Explorer project at Microsoft in the 1990s and for his foundational work on early web standards including HTML4, CSS, and XML as a founding board member of the W3C. He earned his PhD in Neuroscience and Behavior from Columbia University in 2016 and was elected to the Columbia University Board of Trustees in 2026.