I've spent 40 years trying to make things better.

Innovator, entrepreneur, mentor, and investor - and apparently a man who needs four words to introduce himself.

My name is Thomas Leiber. Most people call me Dr.T, which sounds more impressive than it is. It started as a family joke involving a Richard Gere film, two fabulous women, and a cat who outranks all of us.

I'm an engineer by training, an inventor by instinct, and an entrepreneur because I simply cannot look at a broken system without wanting to fix it. That's both a gift and a personality flaw, depending on who you ask.

I grew up watching my father work. He invented the ABS braking system, the technology that stops your car from skidding on ice. I didn't understand what he was doing when I was a child. I just knew he was trying to make something that kept people from getting hurt.

Turns out, that's what I've been doing my whole life, too.

I studied aerospace engineering, did a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT, earned a doctorate in electrical engineering, and spent time at McKinsey learning how to turn complexity into clarity. Then I started building.

The technology my team and I developed — a brake-by-wire system that replaces mechanical and hydraulic components with electronics — is now in roughly one in three new cars on the road. Every time that system activates, somewhere between panic and a crash, it does its job quietly and goes unnoticed. That's exactly what good engineering is supposed to do.

Nearly 500 patents later, I'm still at it.