Drew Mouton

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CEO and Managing Director @ Argo Chasing LLC
Shreveport, LA, US
About Drew Mouton

With a broad base of leadership, development, policy and management experience gained through diverse roles in industry, government and education, I have developed the skills to create consensus and effectively lead, mentor and develop both internal and constituent teams that produce successful and outsized outcomes.Key achievements and skills include:• Demonstrated expertise in small business development, finance and managerial operations.• 20 years in leadership of Government,Technology, Biotech, Defense & Management Consulting.• 25 years managing the process of innovation, in commercial and university environments.• Strong record of achievement in policy and program development within government, highereducation and business, including extensive tech transfer, product and M&A experience.• Strong deal-closing & revenue generation history with both foreign and US (Fed and State) contracts.• Team builder and developer of 2 to 120 people, managing contracts to $40MM annual direct revenue.• Globally Acclimated, with extensive travel, work and personal networks across North America as well ascentered on Columbia, Mexio, Peru; England, France, Turkiye; Israel, Dubai and Doha; India, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China and Australia.+++As an entrepreneur, founded, led and sold multiple technology companies during the DotCom boom; developed and ran defense contractors in the years post-9/11; led a publicly traded Detroit-based manufacturer and auto industry supplier during the subprime crash; and built an advisory practice assisting companies on five continents as a growth-focused management consultant during the recovery years of the 2010’s. Served on corporate boards and mentored or helped start dozens of entrepreneurial ventures and university spin-outs across the technology industry, Federal contracting, biotech, and the hospitality sector. In the years 2010 to 2022 I directed much of my attention to higher education and public service, in particular within technology transfer, university innovation and support of early stage ventures. While collaborating with universities across the State and around the country, I have been an advisor, Lean Startup SME, a member of the Lean Launchpad community; served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence; as an Industrial Mentor within the NSF's I-Corps program; created courses, served as Technology Architect, as Chief innovation Officer; led campus seminars and taught university classes in management, strategy, new venture planning, applied innovation and management of entrepreneurial ventures.

Drew Mouton's Current Company Details
Argo Chasing LLC

Argo Chasing Llc

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CEO and Managing Director
Shreveport, LA, US
Website:
ArgoChasing.com
Employees:
2
Drew Mouton Work Experience Details
  • Argo Chasing Llc
    Ceo And Managing Director
    Argo Chasing Llc
    Shreveport, La, Us
  • Equulus Therapeutics
    Board Director; Chief Business Officer
    Equulus Therapeutics Nov 2023 - Present
  • Argo Chasing Llc
    Executive Director
    Argo Chasing Llc Jan 2023 - Present
    www.ArgoChasing.com--> Managing Director; Chief Innovation Officer; Manager, ArgoEarly Ventures.Cross-functional leader of corporate operations, strategic initiatives, and key client programs. Senior Executive Advisor to agency and commercial clients, liaison to federal, state and municipal agencies.ArgoChasing delivers project management services characterized by Leadership, Experience, Innovation & Execution. More than just an advisory firm, Argo is focused on defining, developing and executing meaningful projects for its partner-clients.• We help lead projects into existence: with decades of experience in conceiving and chartering successful projects, the Argo team knows what it takes to create something from nothing.• We help steer your project to a successful completion: studies show the best predictor of future success is past performance - here's where experience matters.• We help manage the process of innovation: successful innovation is a process, not a pipe dream: solving complex problems and translating core concepts requires the right people and the right approach.
  • City Of Shreveport
    Director, Office Of Economic Development
    City Of Shreveport May 2021 - Nov 2022
    Shreveport, Louisiana, Us
    Reporting to the Mayor, tasked to transition a decades-old economic development coordinator role into an economic development team and office, as a comprehensive function implemented across all of city government, for the largest municipality in the northern half of the State. Serves as Cabinet-level staff member and Senior Advisor to the Mayor, CAO and City Council with regard to business and economic policy pertaining to an approximately $500MM municipal spend and nearly 3,000 city employees. Subject-matter expert for organizational change initiatives, industry engagement, corporate operations and commercial best practices. Performs Deputy Mayor functions when needed as a stand-in for the Mayor, with regard to constituent engagement, public speaking and representation. • Established Analysis, Project Management and Grants Management Offices within the Department • Led City engagement team on $200MM Amazon fulfillment center project, $100MM AEP/SWEPCO project, Millennium Studios acquisition and campus redevelopment, other projects. • Founding Chair, Shreveport-Caddo Economic Development Consortium • Founding Chair, NWLA Film Working Group • Lead, City Planning Committee • Lead, Healthcare Corridor Redevelopment Committee • Ex-officio Board Member, Shreveport Regional Airport Authority • Airport Authority Noise Lands Technical Advisory Committee
  • Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
    Chief Innovation Officer
    Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center May 2019 - May 2021
    New Orleans, Louisiana, Us
    On a daily basis served as Chief Business Officer to the Office of Research; as primary point of contact for industry engagement; as a startup leader for new initiatives; and as lead subject matter expert on innovation for benefit of clinical and scientific faculty. Provided programmatic support in the management of the process of innovation, identifying and introducing best practices from within both academia and the business community; and served as onsite subject matter expert for change management, business development and corporate best practice initiatives.2019-2021 projects include:• developed team, plan, budget and won a $XMM State appropriation for a new Large Animal Medical Research Facility, currently entering pre-construction• packaged, marketed and closed a major multi-$MM license for a new PAD therapy, moving to Phase IIb clinical trial• conceived and co-founded the new Louisiana Addiction Research Center• conceived, co-founded and led the LSUHS Emerging Viral Threat Lab, and ensuing creation of the Center of Excellence for Emerging Viral Threats• developed a multi-point state-wide Population Health Monitoring program and $XXMM funding plan based on CARES and ARPA funding, through Louisiana OPH• led engagement with a new Cell Therapy collaborator, based on our out-licensed IP, and of the formation of a Cell Therapy Working Group• led Federal engagement for appropriation funding of numerous research programs• produced white papers and proposals to the LA Office of Public Health for pandemic response programs that are on track to *double* prior year total campus research expenditure.• currently leading development and prelim stages of a major roll-out of a new campus-wide Clinical Trial Management System• created and led a new Research Data Management Team: an internal IT group staffed by experts in big data, analytics, DB admin, app admin and development• daily: reviewed disclosures, managed IP portfolio, led prototype-product development
  • Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
    Senior Advisor, Innovation Ecosystem
    Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Oct 2018 - May 2019
    New Orleans, Louisiana, Us
    With a foundation based in transformative research led by world-class faculty, in conjunction with Louisiana State-designated Centers focused on biomedical and clinical research involving cancer, cardiovascular disease, inflammatory disorders, brain health, tissue engineering, addiction and viral threats, LSU Health Shreveport is ranked #1 in the LSU system for patents issued and is North Louisiana's only academic medical center. From within the Office of Research, at the direction of the AVC-RD and Vice Chancellor for Research, I originated this staff tech transfer and commercialization role as subject matter expert, community lead and head cheerleader for the emergent HSCS Innovation Ecosystem. I worked directly with faculty and support staff to improve the market readiness of internally developed technologies; develop alternate and additional sources of Phase0 developmental funding; identify organizational change initiatives that advance the research mission; while also helping to build and support commercial partnerships and community resources; all with the specific aim of substantially increasing the velocity of IP development and market value of outcomes.
  • Lsu Shreveport
    Technology Architect, Executive Advisor
    Lsu Shreveport Sep 2019 - Apr 2021
    Shreveport, La, Us
    As principal strategist and subject matter expert, led development of a campus-wide curricular overlay to better train students for participation in the 21st Century workforce, by embedding digital dexterity in all aspects of the curriculum. This over-arching initiative - inclusive of new faculty roles, new courses, new research programs and projects by students, faculty and industry - is based on a central physical space known as the Collaboratory, with service centers for prototyping, visualization and biofabrication, and "sandboxed" immersive industrial environments representing government, military, industrial operations, education, consumer tech and healthcare. These environments are built to allow students to serve as apprentices, while student, faculty and commercial collaborator projects are deployed and tested as if in the real world. With full participation from faculty across nearly all major disciplines on campus, the Collaboratory initiative is changing the way LSUS recruits, educates, trains and engages the community.
  • Tulane University
    Entrepreneur-In-Residence; Executive Advisor, Office Of Tt&Ipd
    Tulane University Dec 2014 - May 2019
    New Orleans, La, Us
    Adjunct staff member and consulting advisor to the Executive Director. Co-developed the Tulane Novel Tech Challenge, various other innovation-related programming; co-wrote successful NSF I-Corps Node application for Tulane, successful I-Corps (National) project grants (as Co-PI), participating as IM at National programs; led multiple seminars each year on Lean Startup Methodology and related topics; evaluated newly disclosed IP, coached startup teams, consulting with inventors across all basic science, engineering, medicine and liberal arts disciplines.
  • Tulane University
    Lead Instructor, Engineering
    Tulane University Dec 2015 - Sep 2018
    New Orleans, La, Us
    Creator of the Applied Innovation Pathway series at Tulane University; designer and lead instructor for SCEN-6060. Evaluator and Judge, Senior Design and other student projects in Biomedical Engineering. Instructor, Lecturer or Panelist for New Venture Creation, New Venture Planning, New Venture Management, Entrepreneurial Management, Management of New Ventures, Competition and Strategy and other courses associated with A. B. Freeman School of Business.
  • Board And Esv Advisory
    Levisonics: Board Director, Former Collaborator And Pi
    Board And Esv Advisory Dec 2016 - Apr 2019
    Collaborator on NSF Award #1725033, "Acoustic tweezing elastometry," and NSF Innovation Corps industry advisor. Principal Investigator, NSF 17-545 submittal, "Innovative Platform for Low Volume Blood Coagulation Analysis and Rheological Control."Using acoustic levitation technology original funded by NASA, and developed in a collaboration between Boston University and Tulane University, Levisonics has developed a novel platform for the real-time analysis of fluid samples: faster, and using sample volume as much as 1/100th the size required by current technologies in the market. The initial application focus is blood coagulation analysis, with a particular emphasis on pediatric critical care, where no current device is capable of providing the critical data that care providers need for these most vulnerable patients.
  • Board And Esv Advisory
    Southern Development Center: Board Director, Formerly Executive Director
    Board And Esv Advisory Sep 2015 - Apr 2019
    www.SouthernDevCenter.com
  • Board And Esv Advisory
    Bacchanal Llc: Board Director; Lead, Finance And Growth
    Board And Esv Advisory Apr 2015 - Oct 2018
    www.BacchanalWine.com
  • Board And Esv Advisory
    Novocomm: Board Director; Corporate Strategy
    Board And Esv Advisory Feb 2016 - Nov 2017
    Chief strategy officer for this electrical, security, communications and general construction firm active in the regional, municipal and Federal sectors. The company is certified by LA DoT as a regional DBE, and Federally as a HUBZONE, WOSB and EDWOSB, providing management, direct performance and procurement services to commercial and government clients across North America.
  • Board And Esv Advisory
    Axosim: Founding Board Director
    Board And Esv Advisory Jun 2015 - Jun 2017
    www.AxoSim.com
  • Board And Esv Advisory
    Fluence Analytics, Formerly Apmt: Executive Advisor
    Board And Esv Advisory 2016 - 2017
    www.FluenceAnalytics.com
  • Board And Esv Advisory
    Bioceptive: Executive Advisor
    Board And Esv Advisory 2015 - 2017
    www.Bioceptive.com
  • Board And Esv Advisory
    Hermes Management: Founding Director
    Board And Esv Advisory Jan 2006 - Dec 2015
    Closely-held private equity and asset management firm. Led opportunities in venture capital, real estate, program trading; built algorithmic trading strategy and blackbox tools.
  • Board And Esv Advisory
    Tympanogen: Founding Advisor
    Board And Esv Advisory 2014 - 2015
    www.Tympanogen.com
  • Board And Esv Advisory
    Tutti Dynamics: Board Director
    Board And Esv Advisory Oct 2012 - Sep 2014
    Founding Member of the Board of Directors. Tutti is an education technology company, creator of the new standard for learning to play and experience music. With close ties to Berklee School of Music, Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center, as well as a growing list of the finest music educators in the world, Tutti is bringing a long-needed refresh to the $2Billion music education market.
  • Board And Esv Advisory
    Orbitform: Management Advisor
    Board And Esv Advisory Nov 2008 - Nov 2011
    Transaction and Special Projects Leader
  • Board And Esv Advisory
    Materials Mangement: Founding Director
    Board And Esv Advisory Dec 2009 - Jun 2011
  • Board And Esv Advisory
    Offshore Systems: Founding Director
    Board And Esv Advisory Nov 2009 - Jun 2011
  • Board And Esv Advisory
    Mantco: Director, Development Office
    Board And Esv Advisory Aug 2009 - Jan 2011
  • Caerus Management Llc
    Managing Director
    Caerus Management Llc Feb 2014 - Mar 2019
    Founder and Managing Director. Caerus is a mid-market advisory and management firm with an opportunity-driven, growth-equity focus built on deep operational expertise and the ability to take an active, strategic and operational role in client engagements and managed projects. Developed and led this advisory and management firm, including units focused on 1.) Growth, 2.) Education Finance & Operations, 3.) M&A, 4.) International Projects and 5.) Early Stage Ventures. Internal Project Management Organization leader; client-lead and PM of growth and change initiatives in education, SaaS, defense industry and hospitality. Co-developed and managed certification process for multiple SBA 8A-certified companies (EDWOSB, Tribal 8A). Co-wrote numerous successful SBIR/STTR grant applications. Notable clients include Bacchanal (Louisiana); AxoSim (Louisiana); Fluence Analytics (Louisiana); Tulane University OTTIPD; Formulated Polymers Ltd (Chennai, India); Pacheriwala Family Enterprises (Mumbai, India); IS Nido de Aguilas (Santiago, Chile); Newark Public Schools.
  • Carrollton Group, Llc
    Ceo
    Carrollton Group, Llc Sep 2010 - Nov 2013
    New Orleans, Louisiana, Us
    Carrollton is a vertically-integrated technology services company. From dirt to development, the company provides complex commercial services including technical construction, enterprise IT support, software development and project management for Federal and Enterprise clients, across North America and abroad. From its Gulf South headquarters the company serves commercial, Federal, military and international clients, operating across North America and numerous countries abroad. Led this vertically integrated tech service company. Personally led infrastructure, security and Defense projects as Senior PM to Siemens, Sprint, FAA and other clients. Acquired commercial, State, Fed and Port projects in excess of $10MM within first 90 days of operation, and later $MM’s in contracts with USACE, USAF, NASA, Ports of Mobile and New Orleans, many others. Served as a member of “Team Australia,” through AUS Embassy in D. C., as direct liaison to AUS Ministry of Defense (DEU/DMO divisions) and AUS Defense contractors. Served the President of Haiti (Port au Prince), his staff and the Banque République d’Haiti in numerous projects related to recovery from the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
  • Global Safety Solutions & Management Pty Ltd
    Director, North American Markets
    Global Safety Solutions & Management Pty Ltd Mar 2010 - Jan 2012
    Au
    Member "Team Australia," Defense Export Unit, Defense Materiel Organization, Australian Ministry of Defense. Liaison to the Australian Embassy, Washington DC. Represented GSSM to Federal, Military and commercial prospects as it entered the US market.Headquartered in Australia, GSSM is a global provider and leading manufacturer of PPE and purpose-built solutions for military, law enforcement, petrochem, transportation and manufacturing industries.
  • Americhip Int'L Inc [Otcbb:Acii]
    Ceo; Board Director
    Americhip Int'L Inc [Otcbb:Acii] Jan 2009 - Aug 2009
    Turnaround and recovery leader for publicly-traded company. Led KSI divestiture; sourced, drove $30MM Orbitform joint-venture and acquisition*; led drastic expense reduction, during the Global Financial Collapse; settled claims; built a Shareholder Advisory Group; liaised to SEC and FINRA for investigation of former management; liaised to institutional funding, drove investment banking activities, patent development and preparation. Key customers: Ford, GM, Chrysler, AM General, Boeing and other Fortune100 companies. (*And led reversal as 2008 GFC threatened continuing operations and hundreds of jobs.)
  • Americhip Int'L Inc [Otcbb:Acii]
    Advisor; Director; Vice-Chairman Of The Board
    Americhip Int'L Inc [Otcbb:Acii] Jun 2008 - Jan 2009
    Turnaround leader of small publicly traded company. Direct liaison to SEC and FINRA.
  • Bivium Corp
    Founder, Managing Director
    Bivium Corp Sep 2002 - Oct 2006
    Founded and led this developer, systems integrator & telecom construction firm, largely serving the US DoD.• Developer/operator, Lead SysAdmin of the Etool.Net collaborative messaging, IP-Telecom and SaaS provider, up to 30,000 seats;• Delivered campus-wide integrated data, voice, video deployments in numerous States;• Built the CallerSupportSuite IVR Platform on the nascent Altigen IPTel platform;• Led deployment of numerous Federal campus and E-Rate programs, including design, proposal and sale of multi-faceted, fiber-based, multi-million dollar network deployments to military campuses in LA, MS, GA, MI, WI, VA, NC, SC.
  • Appliedbioscience Inc
    Managing Director
    Appliedbioscience Inc Feb 2004 - Jun 2005
    Co-founded this biotech startup in tissue regeneration and healing (the AccelaGel growth-factor enriched wound regimen). Led formation of the company, recruitment of scientific advisory staff, codification of platelet and IGF prep process, Federal grant applications (for example NIST Advanced Technology Program). Also led sale of the IP to a PE Group.
  • Irev2, Inc
    Founder, Ceo
    Irev2, Inc Sep 1999 - Feb 2003
    Founded/led this team of 60, developing or acquiring new tech assets.• Acquired MicroAdvisors, Custom Design Systems, Baseline Computing, GlobalLinkCommunications, SatVision, ExxonMobil and Verio-Nola datacenters;• Developed BetterClicks (adserver software), TechOnsite (“packaged tech” service provider),HyperChrome Design (interactive studio), Etool.Net (application service provider); UltimateGalaxy (Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing Game).
  • Etool
    Founder, Ceo
    Etool Sep 1995 - Dec 1999
    As a recent college graduate, founded and led this early Internet app developer, building commercial web-enabled DB and security-hardened apps, and a team of 50.• Contributed to the nascent Linux OS; built a 5000-seat Application Service Provider practice; and built software libraries as the foundation of numerous commercial applications;• Developed, built and ran one of the first real-time commodity price distribution systems for Wallstreet firm CPM Group;• Developed the Environmental Accounting Initiative for the US EPA (Lead EPA project manager Kristin Pierre, WashDC);• Developed interactive property and a brand (still in use) for the LA Office of Tourism;• Built the Showtimes distribution system, for mobile (Palm) app use (spun out and sold to Sony Pictures Entertainment);• Sold company to Private Equity group.

Drew Mouton Skills

Start Ups Entrepreneurship Business Strategy Strategy Strategic Planning Mergers And Acquisitions New Business Development Management Executive Management Competitive Analysis Business Development Negotiation Strategic Partnerships International Business Financial Analysis Project Management Having Great Shoes Management Consulting Enterprise Software Consulting Public Speaking Organizational Development Cross Functional Team Leadership Managerial Finance International Sales Risk Management Real Estate Business Analysis Team Building Business Process Improvement Analysis Contract Negotiation Business Planning Investments Operations Management Team Leadership Entrepreneur Change Management Problem Solving Mergers Manufacturing Strategy Development Planning Business Management Financial Management Team Management Government Coaching

Drew Mouton Education Details

  • Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School Of Business
    Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School Of Business
    International Business
  • The University Of Southern Mississippi
    The University Of Southern Mississippi
    International Development
  • Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School Of Business
    Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School Of Business
    Finance. Additional Concentration In Chinese Business Studies.
  • Tulane University
    Tulane University
    Molecular Biology; French
  • Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (Citi Program)
    Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (Citi Program)
    Responsible Conduct Of Research
  • Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (Citi Program)
    Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (Citi Program)
    Citi Health Information Privacy And Security (Hips)
  • Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (Citi Program)
    Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (Citi Program)
    Conflict Of Interest
  • Pfizer Investigator Training Program
    Pfizer Investigator Training Program
    Clinical Trial Practices
  • American Bar Association
    American Bar Association
    Trial Skills
  • Donaldson College
    Donaldson College
    Real Estate Law
  • Highland High School
    Highland High School
    Fine Arts

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