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• Lead initiatives and services aimed at promoting technology translation, commercialization, and entrepreneurship throughout SUNY’s extensive research enterprise, supporting SUNY affiliated companies in their growth, telling and selling the story of SUNY, and fostering partnerships and joint ventures with industry and government to bring SUNY technology to market.• Oversee SUNY Research Foundation’s business units that handle intellectual property and licensing, new ventures, marketing, communications, and external relations and partnerships.• Serve on SUNY Research Foundation's leadership team, which is responsible for the corporation's strategy, finances, and management and its overall success in supporting SUNY's research and innovation.

• Led a portfolio of initiatives focused on promoting entrepreneurship and commercialization across the $1+ billion annual research enterprise, helping SUNY companies start strong and scale, and building partnerships with investors and development partners to get more SUNY technology into the market.• Managed SUNY’s growing portfolio of equity positions in affiliated companies, which have a collective fair value of over $500 million, as well as oversee all equity administration strategies and policies across the enterprise.• Partnered with campuses and SUNY System Administration to develop, implement, and manage entrepreneurship, technology commercialization, venture development, and industry engagement support for faculty, students, staff, and SUNY-affiliated startup companies.

• Co-founded and serve on the investment committee of Upstate Biotech Ventures, a $6M early-stage venture capital fund focused on high-potential life sciences and health tech startups and small businesses affiliated with Upstate Medical University to drive research and technology innovation.• Upstate Biotech Ventures is a partnership between Empire State Development, Upstate Medical University, Excell Partners, and SUNY Research Foundation.

• Serve on the board of directors of Upstate Capital, which is a statewide non-profit organization that connects capital providers, entrepreneurs, and professional advisors to opportunities across New York State.• Board responsibilities include developing and planning the overall strategic vision and direction of Upstate Capital as well as identifying and engaging potential new member and sponsor organizations.

• Serve on the board of directors of Long Island High Technology Incubator (LIHTI), which is a non-profit organization that supports and accelerates early-stage, high-risk, high-tech businesses.• Board responsibilities include helping guide the overall strategic direction of LIHTI as well as serving on both the finance and audit committees.

• Had direct responsibility for $130 million portfolio of innovation, technology development, and investment initiatives targeted to entrepreneurs, innovators, and early-stage companies in the energy space.• Managed 12-person team of highly accomplished professionals with a combined 300 years of experience in innovation, entrepreneurship, technology transfer and commercialization, product development, investing, sales and marketing, and manufacturing.• Oversaw statewide network of more than 40 venture development professionals, which provided commercialization assistance and business development support to over 250 portfolio companies.

• Managed NYSERDA’s $25 million clean energy incubator initiative, one of TBI’s most successful and impactful programs in terms of return on investment, which supported six incubators across the state that assisted over 200 early-stage companies raise more than $405 million in private capital.• Led the development and deployment of NYSERDA’s investor engagement activities, which aimed to better connect TBI portfolio companies with the full spectrum of investors, improve the environment for clean energy investing and syndication of deals, and attract more early-stage capital to New York State.• Served as a Technology to Market (T2M) advisor, the first official T2M staff member at NYSERDA, to ramp up commercialization for TBI’s portfolio of over 250 research, development, and demonstration projects as well as accelerate the time to market for clean energy technologies and solutions that benefited New York State.

• Served on the board of directors of Clean Energy Alliance (CEA), which was a national non-profit organization of over 40 incubators and accelerators with a focus on clean energy technology commercialization and deployment.• Board responsibilities included setting and implementing the overall strategic vision and direction of CEA as well as identifying and engaging potential partner and funding organizations.

• Oversaw portfolio of entrepreneurship programs and commercialization partnerships totaling more than $3.4 million, including the NYSERDA-sponsored iCLEAN incubator, Innovation Center for Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneur-In-Residence Program, New York Business Plan Competition, New Energy Symposium, and Tech Valley Innovation Pipeline.• Developed and scaled R&D, entrepreneurship, and commercialization programs as well as collaborated with scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, investors, corporate/strategic partners, government officials, and business leaders to effectively bridge the gap between the laboratory and the boardroom.• Succeeded in obtaining funding of over $5 million from federal and state agencies, primarily for projects focused on commercializing energy storage, solar photovoltaic, energy efficiency, buildings, and smart grid technologies.

• Managed all aspects of technical and commercialization support services for iCLEAN client companies, in addition to providing access to early-stage investors and corporate/strategic partners.• Led iCLEAN’s day-to-day operations from inception, including managing relationships with funders, identifying and screening potential clients and technologies, preparing go-to-market plans and investor presentations, and conducting market opportunity assessments.

• Conducted research focused on the clean energy and nanotechnology markets to assess the economic feasibility of emerging technologies and identify related investment opportunities for sophisticated investors and E2TAC partner organizations.• Collaborated with scientists and engineers, entrepreneurs, industry and government executives, external consultants, faculty, and technical staff to identify, write, and manage proposals for programs administered by the U.S. Department of Energy, ARPA-E, U.S. Department of Defense, DARPA, NASA, National Science Foundation, and NYSERDA.

• Co-founded MICROrganic Technologies, a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute spinout company that is commercializing microbial fuel cell platform technologies for wastewater treatment applications.• Responsibilities included overseeing financial planning and P&L responsibilities, writing and managing grants, developing and executing fundraising strategies, negotiating terms with investors and vendors, and managing day-to-day operations.

• Worked on a restructuring team with owner and other management to re-engineer the business processes of one-season Christmas tree farm, which transformed it to a three-season agricultural tourism business and resulted in annual revenue increases of more than 100% year-over-year from 2006 to 2008.• Led sales and operations teams of over 30 part-time employees by efficiently allocating and managing staff and resources, which resulted in decreased operating costs of approximately 35% from 2006 to 2008.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Information Technology Management And Nanotechnology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Administration, Finance And Management