Lance Glasser, CEO, Co-founder
Lance brings together deep technical innovation and proven business leadership to solve one of music's most stubborn challenges: enabling groups to perform together across distance.
He founded Kinetic Audio Innovations in 2025 alongside Lloyd Dickman to eliminate internet latency for synchronized group singing and music performance. This follows a career launching successful technology companies including ExXothermic Inc. (dba Audio Everywhere) and GX3 Innovations.
At KLA, Lance served as Chief Technical Officer and Group Vice President, leading organizations of up to 1,400 people with over $1 billion in annual revenue. Earlier, as Director of the Electronics Technology Office at DARPA, he oversaw the agency's entire electronics technology portfolio (over $1 billion annually in today's dollars) and co-founded iNEMI, the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative.
Lance was a faculty member in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT from 1980-1988 and spent a year as Visiting Senior Researcher at Hitachi Central Research Laboratories in Tokyo. He authored The Design and Analysis of VLSI Circuits with Dan Dobberpuhl and received the ASEE Frederick Emmons Terman Award in 1986.
With over 35 granted US patents, Lance combines inventor-level technical insight with the business experience to bring breakthrough technologies to market. Lance is also an accomplished sculptor whose work can be seen at lanceglasserart.com.
Lloyd Dickman, CTO, Co-founder
Lloyd brings knowledge in computer systems architecture to Kinetic Audio Innovations, with deep expertise in the high-performance computing and real-time audio technologies essential to solving musical latency at scale.
He co-founded Kinetic Audio Innovations in 2025 with Lance Glasser to build real-time audio systems that enable musicians to perform together over the internet. Lloyd previously worked alongside Lance at ExXothermic (acquired by Listen Technologies in 2020), where he served as Engineering Director developing WiFi-based audio distribution technology deployed worldwide in venues ranging from houses of worship to stadiums.
Lloyd served as CTO of InfiniBand Products at QLogic, leading technical strategy for high-performance computing interconnects. The technology he helped develop there was later acquired by Intel. He represented QLogic on the boards of the InfiniBand Trade Association and OpenFabrics Alliance, chairing the OpenFabrics Technical Advisory Group. His work on the Performance Scale Messaging (PSM) networking stack—designed to handle millions of messages per second—laid groundwork for the low-latency techniques now being applied to real-time audio.
Earlier, Lloyd spent over a decade at Amdahl Corporation as Senior Director of Architecture and Planning, directing the architecture of several successful mainframe computer lines. He pioneered virtual machine architectures for server virtualization and consolidation and negotiated joint development agreements with Fujitsu. Prior to Amdahl, he headed the Computer Systems Architecture research group at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), where he led research in multiprocessor structures, secure computing, and instruction set design.
Lloyd organized and served as General Chair of ASPLOS I (Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems), founding what has become one of the premier conferences in computer systems research. He has held adjunct teaching positions at UC Berkeley, Northwestern, San Francisco State, University of Lowell, and Northeastern, teaching computer architecture and systems programming.
Lloyd holds a BSEE and MSEE from Lehigh University, where his master's thesis focused on VLSI systems design and high-performance pattern matching. He completed graduate coursework in computer science at Harvard, focusing on virtual machine architectures. He is a Senior Member of ACM, past officer of ACM SIGARCH, and holds six US patents in computer architecture.