The Director plays a pivotal role in driving entrepreneurial and innovative initiatives within the Health Sciences at Northeastern University’s global system and in partnerships with corporations and philanthropy. The Director works closely with key stakeholders of NU’s global network to contribute and advance the health sciences components of the entrepreneurship ecosystem by promoting the development of health-related startups, entrepreneurship lifelong learning and training, commercialization and translational research, an entrepreneurial culture/mindset across the College stakeholders, and through collaboration with industry partners, corporations, friends and donors.

The EIR is responsible for supporting innovation teams, evaluation of a venture’s feasibility, serving as a liaison with other entrepreneurship entities at Northeastern University, driving collaborative strategic initiatives to improve / grow Health Sciences Entrepreneurship program, and being a strong positive ambassador for the program through engagement in other relevant activities.https://www.northeastern.edu/hse/

New type of innovation management and business development firm. Thought leadership, advisement and execution directed towards growth by open innovation.Introducing customer driven approach and universal suite of services - Innovation Navigator (TM).

GE5010 “Customer-Driven Technical Innovation for Engineers” is a Required Core Course for Entrepreneurial Engineering Minor: This course is focused on analyzing common shortcomings of early startups and creating understanding for successful innovation design and commercialization strategy. Particular emphasis is made on understanding real market needs and how to gather relevant information to make the educated decision early on. The course demonstrates through a series of practical projects how to assess your capabilities, find and communicate with your end users and clients and correspondently develop your product to fit their needs. The Michael J. and Ann Sherman Center for Engineering Entrepreneurship Education. (http://www.northeastern.edu/sherman/) ENTR2301 “Innovation!” Designed for students across the entire University who wish to learn about innovation—the creative process, the different types of innovation, how innovations are created, and how innovations can be transformed into commercial reality either as new products or new services and either in startups, existing corporations, and nonprofit entities. Offers students an opportunity to obtain the fundamental insight needed to understand the innovation process and to become a player in it. D’Amore-McKim School of Business. (http://www.damore-mckim.northeastern.edu)

NeuroLight, Inc. has developed a novel and proprietary neuromodulation technology for transplanting mental statesTM. The process involves replicating brainwaves from a “donor,” who is in a desired mental state (such as sleep, the states of flow, hyper-focus, relaxation, etc.), to induce this state in the recipient. This revolutionary technology can be used to address diseases of the brain (such as sleep disorders, dementia, epilepsy, depression, anxiety, PTSD, phobias, addictions, ADHD, etc.) as well as for non-medical applications, such as emotional enhancement (for cinema, media, computer games, VR, advertising, etc.) and accelerated learning. The company is presently working on its first application to treat insomnia.

MG335 “Entrepreneurial Thinking” focuses on all aspects of starting a business: selecting promising ideas, initiating new ventures, and obtaining initial financing.MG336 "New Venture Planning and Financing" covers a broad range of planning and financial activities that occur throughout the life of an entrepreneurial venture.MG338 "Launching Your Business" provides the students with the knowledge and skills necessary to (1) select the businesses that are right for them and (2) execute on their business plans and successfully launch their businesses. GB410 “Global Strategy” focuses on the role of general manager or top management team in formulating and implementing short- and long-term business and corporate-level strategies.

SDOs are former Fortune 500 executives, angel investors and serial entrepreneurs with extensive knowledge and experience in startups development, who will sit on boards of directors and boards of advisers to help guide companies from startup through successful milestones to a significant market event.

UsTech Discovery is a boutique business development and technology transfer consulting firm with focus on developing economies, such as Israel and countries of Former Soviet Union. UsTech is providing commercialization and business development services to Universities, small and large corporations as well as individual inventors and entrepreneurs. After 2016 all activities merged into Primary Care Innovation Consulting.

yet2.com is a global leader in intellectual property (IP) licensing and consulting. We provide full range of services that assist clients in finding and delivering licensing value and new revenue opportunities.Responsibilities include:• identification and management of projects for yet2.com clients on Licensing and Open Innovation (both technology licensing and technology acquisitions)• management and supervision of project delivery teams• deal negotiations for yet2.com clients• outsourced Business Development function for small/midsize yet2.com clients• developing and delivering yet2.com professional services• training and mentoring

Building up technology transfer consulting service as the company was moving away from being a "portal" and an "internet bubble survivor".

Responsibilities: - Management of clients and analysts, work assignments, quality assurance- Business and new product/service development- Training and mentoring- Assessment and Consulting work for clientsAlso served as Project Director for Foresight's SBIR commercialization assistance programs (US EPA, US Department of Agriculture, US Department of Energy) and on major projects for universities, corporate and civilian agency accounts.

Senior postdoc, independent researcher.

Research Fellow

Postdoctoral researcher.