title: Stan Kugell
text: # Stan Kugell
  
  Stan Kugell is an American investor, entrepreneur, inventor, and computer scientist. He is current or former director of over a dozen corporate and non-profit boards. He remains active advising technology entrepreneurs privately and as a Mentor at the Harvard i-Lab. He was a research scientist at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, where he invented Dired. At the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center he and Ed McCreight built the first voicemail system. He co-founded Javelin Software and was primary designer of its user interface. He is inventor or co-inventor of seven U.S. and international patents and applications.
  
  He co-hosted Kugell & McLaughlin, a nationally syndicated political talk radio program, and served as a commentator on the public radio show Marketplace and on the Pacifica Radio Network.
  
  