Mark Fasciano Email & Phone Number

End-to-end, high-capacity diagnostic lab serving municipalities, pharmacies, assisted living facilities, medical practices, and private organizations.

Fast, inexpensive, point-of-care PCR instrument. Also CEO, co-founder Rover Labs, end-to-end diagnostic testing lab for municipal and private populations.

Woodbury, New York, US

• Serve on Board of Directors of private, international auto distributor with sales primarily to military personnel overseas. Act as regular sounding board for CEO.
• Led executive search to hire retired two-star army general as full-time company executive.
• Regularly mentor executive team member on career development.
• Support strategy and data working groups within company.
• Serve on compensation, strategy, and executive committees.

• Led the creation of a biotechnology start-up to automate and digitize the medical field of histopathology.
• Negotiated a technology transfer license with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a leading cancer research center.
• Raised $3.6 million in seed capital from private investors.
• Built and led an engineering team to produce a human tissue processing device that improves the accuracy and efficiency of medical diagnoses.
• Oversaw the development of five patents and co-authored three of them.
• Developed and supervised profitable laboratory services business to support R&D.

• Funded and developed a quant hedge fund based on a large-scale natural language processing platform (Hadoop architecture) that measures consumer demand and company sentiment as expressed across 30 million news and.
• Achieved an annual return of +18% with live trading (1.9 Sharpe ratio, <10% max drawdown).

Jericho, NY, US

• Co-founded $20M early stage venture fund that invested in and built tech startups.
• Backed a variety of successful companies, including Clearpath Robotics (robotic bases), TouchBistro (tablet-based POS systems for restaurants).

Brookville, NY, US

• Helped develop one of the earliest crowdfunding platforms that has processed over $60 million in donations.
• Built original team of engineers and customer support staff that grew to help over 300 nonprofit organizations launch online peer-to-peer campaigns.
• Raised over $4M in investments into company.
• Recruited influential business and nonprofit leaders for board of directors.

Mineola, New York, US

• Launched development of the earliest-to-market web enterprise content management system.
• Raised over $30 million in startup and growth capital.
• Drove financial modeling for capital raising and operating budgets.
• Led $6.5 million acquisition of distressed, larger competitor (OpenMarket), successfully retaining over 95% of its customer base, and turning it profitable.
• Grew business to over 400 customers across 9 countries, including General Motors, Ford, JPMorgan Chase, the New York Times, Best Buy, Banco Santander, the University of Utrecht, the Jerusalem Post, and Hitachi.
• Personally closed the company’s largest licensing deals: $3 million from CA Technologies and $4.5 million from General Motors.

Chicago, IL, US

• Wrote pioneering AI thesis on real-time planning in fast-changing worlds.
• Conducted research on machine learning, sensor fusion, autonomous robotics, and computer vision.

Ba, Computer Science And English

Phd, Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence