
He joined Boise Cascade in a sales job in 2006. Twenty years later, Jeff Strom is running the company, with a career built around the unglamorous art of getting building materials to the people who need them.
RIOS Intelligent Machines was a Menlo Park robotics company building AI-powered dexterous robots for factories, warehouses, and supply chains. Founded in 2018 by former Xerox PARC engineers, RIOS pioneered haptic intelligence and tactile sensing for industrial robots, deploying systems across e-commerce, manufacturing, food processing, and wood products before archiving the company in 2026.