Caitlin Kalinowski has served as a director of Axon Enterprise, Inc. since 2019. She most recently served as a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, where she focused on AI and robotics, from November 2024 to March 2026. Previously, she was head of the AR Glasses Hardware team at Meta's Reality Labs division from March 2022 to July 2024 and, before that, led the VR Hardware team from February 2013 to March 2022, where she played a key role in the design and engineering of Oculus' award-winning VR devices.
Before working at Meta, Ms. Kalinowski was a Product Design Engineer at Apple from October 2005 to January 2013, where she was a technical lead on the Mac Pro and MacBook Air products and was part of the original unibody MacBook Pro team.
Alongside her role as a Director at the Institute of Contemporary Art in San Francisco, Ms. Kalinowski is a past and present strategic advisor at numerous start-up companies and is on the strategic board of Lesbians Who Tech & Allies, the largest LGBTQ technical organization in the world. She advises startups working with physical products, drawing on over 20 years of experience in high-tech hardware development. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.