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.• Assembled a clinical advisory board consisting of top scientists from Harvard University, Columbia University, and Northwell Health.• Cultivated relationships with high-profile clients including Biogen, Massachusetts General Hospital, Target ALS, and New York University.• Earned a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the US Department of Defense. Served as Principal Investigator on the grant.

• 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 social media sites. • 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.• Led global sales team’s annual seminar on consultative sales training.• Positioned company for highly successful exit; Oracle purchased FatWire in 2011 for $163 million.

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