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Strategic visionary, conceived and built technology organizations that have been acquired by Boeing, Motorola, Qualcomm, etc. Born at atmospheric CO2 level 315.34 ppm.
• Worked in industries: computing, aerospace, telecom, logistics, supply chain, manufacturing, telecommunications, medical devices, biopharma, synthetic biology, advanced materials
• Admired leader and mentor, built and effectively managed high-performance teams
• Empathetic and collaborative team member now practicing vanaprastha.
Intentionally pivoted career from technology entrepreneur and CEO to helping other entrepreneurs, with a focus on academia. Began teaching Entrepreneurship at Boston University and subsequently led the Office of Technology Development (OTD) from 2010-2016 (published a peer reviewed paper on that experience: Maximize Collisions, Minimize Friction). Applying the success of launching 8 VC backed spinouts from BU to all of Massachusetts at MassVentures, the Commonwealth's venture organization.
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MassVentures, a quasi-public entity was founded in 1978 and is focused on Deep Tech non-dilutive and dilutive funding with an added focus on diverse founders.
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MTTC enables Massachusetts public and private research universities and medical centers to lead the nation in translating basic research to the market, creating jobs and economic development. Merged with MassVentures.
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Launched eight venture-backed spinoffs (who have cumulatively raised over $350M) and generated more licensing royalty income than 34 years cumulative prior. Successfully asserted on Fetal DNA and LED patents. Member of Coulter Oversight Committee at Biomedical Engineering. Member of BU CTSI Internal Advisory Board. Member of the Fraunhofer Alliance. Past member of the Conflict of Interest Committees for BU and BU School of Medicine.
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Truly fantastic group of speakers: MA Secretary of Economic Development Eric Paley, Emily Knight, Tim Menke, Woody Sherman, Vinit Nijhawan (he/him), Tyler Fohrman, Sella Brosh, Wil Ngwa, Sanjoy Ray, Varun Ramdevan, Alexey Galda, Jeffrey Philip, Ramani Varanasi, Mark Adams, Vinny Beranek, Kristina Kitko, Stacy Swider, former Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns, Travis Scholten, Larissa Bifano.