About Us
Low Cost Eyeglasses is a for-profit social enterprise whose mission is to correct uncorrected refractive error. Our business plan won the first place prize in the social enterprise track of the 2001 HBS Business Plan Contest.
Attending the award ceremony from the Harvard Business School's Business Plan Contest this spring are (from left to right): Marcel Acosta, Loeb Fellow a the Harvard Design School and a senior vice president at the Chicago Transit Authority; Ashley Magargee, HBS MBA 2001; Kim Clark, Dean of HBS; Naomi Weinberg, HBS MBA 2001; Neil Houghton, HBS MBA 2001. We are an early stage company. We are in the process of refining our strategy, seeking partners, managers, and other resources needed to execute on our business plan. If you wish to contact us, please contact Neil Houghton directly:
Neil Houghton
Email: neil@lowcosteyeglasses.netBios
Low Cost Eyeglasses is being founded by Neil Houghton and Saul Griffith.
Neil graduated from the Harvard Business School in 2001, having received Honors his first year there. Prior to HBS, Neil was an Associate at Bain Capital, a top-tier leverage buy-out firm. Prior to Bain Capital, Neil worked as an associate at Corporate Decisions (CDI) as a strategy consultant. Neil graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College.
Saul Griffith is finishing his PhD in Programmable Cellular Assembly at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Laboratory. He graduated from the University of New South Wales in Metallurgical Engineering, Honours First Class, and with Masters in Mechanical Engineering (Composite Materials Processing) from the University of Sydney. He has worked in the metals industry for BHP and Comalco, and with Maunsell in Civil Engineering Infrastructure. He is responsible for technology development for Low Cost Eyeglasses including two patent pending technologies in low cost eyeglass manufacture and prescription testing devices.
