Michael J. Callahan (entrepreneur)


Michael Callahan is a tech entrepreneur, developer, and inventor. He is the co-founder and CEO of ONE, Inc., creators of the After School App, an anonymous social network for high school students, and Quickey, a mobile keyboard and chat tool.
Prior to co-founding ONE, Inc. with co-founder Cory Levy, Michael and Thomas Coleman created the Ambient Audeo, a voice synthesizer that gives back the ability to speak to those with vocal cord or neurological damage, and allows thought-controlled wheelchairs.
In 2007, Michael became the first student from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to be awarded the MIT-Lemelson Foundation award for Outstanding Innovation.
On February 26, 2008, Michael made the first live voiceless phone call at the Texas Instruments Developer Conference.
In November 2016, Michael gave a TEDx talk at TEDxNormal titled “Why Your Teen Needs Anonymity.”