Remington Tonar
Adjunct Professor
Remington Tonar is the Co-founder of Cart.com, a pre-IPO stage commerce and logistics unicorn that grew to over thousands of employees, hundreds of millions in revenue and a multibillion-dollar valuation in under four years, recognized by the Financial Times and Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the Americas. He has served as the company's Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Growth Officer, and leader of the company’s Cart Government Solutions subsidiary.
Prior to launching Cart.com, he served as Managing Director of The Cannon, the Greater Houston Area's largest startup incubator and co-working space, and spent several years in the corporate innovation consulting space in New York City advising multinational organizations and Fortune 500s across industries. He also previously managed a seed stage food and beverage venture fund and wrote on infrastructure innovation and smart cities as a Senior Contributor for Forbes.com. He serves as an advisor to a variety of organizations and companies from Fortune 500 engineering firm Fluor to the Global Brain Economy Initiative to startups across industries. He is a frequent speaker on innovation and entrepreneurship in university classrooms and at conferences such as SXSW, WebSummit, SpaceCom, Shoptalk, and the Defense Logistics and Support Summit. He is also a General Partner at Flyleaf Capital, an independent sponsor platform that acquires lower and lower-middle market owner-operated businesses.
Remington holds a Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen, where his research focused on AI and society. He is the author of AI Theism: Technology, Divinity, and the Emergence of a New Religious Myth (Routledge, 2026). He also holds Master's degrees from New York University and Loyola University Chicago, and his Bachelor's from Marquette University.