Nathan Seidle is the CEO of SparkFun Inc. in Boulder, Colorado, a company he founded in 2003 as an undergraduate student in electrical engineering. He also invented a system for printing small runs of circuits boards efficiently with BatchPCB, a sister company within SparkFun. Nathan is an electrical engineer and continues to build, hack, and design many of the companies'products. He was the first distributor of the Arduino and the manufacturer of the LilyPad.