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New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

Covenant is at the forefront of alternative asset management, specializing in both equity and debt investments. The firm's management team comprises seasoned professionals with a deep understanding of markets and a proven track record of success. The firm serves a distinguished clientele, spanning from family offices to influential institutional investors.

Cincinnati, OHIO (OH), US

AKRU’s platform unlocks the commercial real estate market through fractionalized ownership and investments. I am advising first time founder on customer discovery and validation, MVP design, structuring early team, and investor relations.

Alexandria, VA, US

Certified National Instructor for the NSF.Coached over 150 federally funded science teams in Lean Launchpad startup methodology.Since its inception in 2012, iCorps has trained 2500 teams. 1400 resulted in startups and have raised $3.16 billion to date.

Tel Aviv, IL

Team8 is a company-building venture group that creates and invests in companies specializing in digital health, enterprise technology, data, cybersecurity, and fintech. The firm's model is designed to identify substantial problems, ideate solutions, and help accelerate success through technology, product-market fit, and talent acquisition. It leverages an.

New York, NY, US

I was the Founding Executive Director and a Co-PI of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, facilitated by Columbia University’s Data Science Institute. The mission of the Hub is to build public-private, multi-sector partnerships and consortia to develop and disseminate data-driven solutions to big, real-world challenges. The Northeast Hub is one of four.

New York, New York, US

I joined CUNY as a Special Advisor to help enhance and integrate its existing entrepreneurship programs. In this capacity I led a project to consolidate and expand CUNY’s entrepreneurship programs. I also designed a faculty entrepreneur onboarding process in collaboration with the Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Research, the new Advanced Science.

HVBio developed a biomolecular recognition and large-scale biotechnology production platform to enable self-assembled fabrication of single-walled carbon nanotube-based devices.Our first device in development was an inexpensive, fast, point-of-care diagnostic sensor.Coordinated IP and product development strategy and led successful execution of university.

New York, NY, US

REAL leverages emotional sciences and AI to supercharge marketing and empower consumers.Designed and executed ideation strategy and proof-of-principle technology in collaboration with Columbia University data scientists.Coordinated IP and commercialization strategy and led successful execution of university IP licensing.

New York, New York, US

I was the Founding Director of Industry Interactions and Entrepreneurship at the Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering (now the Data Science Institute - DSI). DSI is an extraordinary organization dedicated to the theory and application of data science across many fields of endeavor. Founded as part of Mayor Bloomberg’s goal of expanding the applied.

Delivered following projects:M&A due diligence for RTI for potential merger focused on expanding toxicology and in-vivo pharmacology capabilities.Fundraising and strategy for early-stage medical device company.Financing strategy for early-stage, advanced fuel processing company.

New York, NY, US

As the founding Chief Business Officer at NYAS, I built a successful business development team and increased total business development revenues by 313%; a compounded annual growth rate of over 25%. Created and led Innovation and Economic Development advisory practice. Primary focus areas were biomedicine and clean technologies. Delivered multiple projects.

Led multimillion-dollar licensing and research deals with leading pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, imaging, nanotech, and IT companies.Created University spin-out companies.

Founded Medihub, which raised $1 million in its seed round, to provide supply chain and enterprise resource planning solutions to the non-acute healthcare industry.Engaged in every aspect of Medihub, from business and information systems strategies to partnerships and raising capital.Executed partnerships with i2 Technologies, Capgemini Ernst & Young, J.D..

London, GB

Delivered client engagements in the following areas: eHealth (aka Digital Health) and dot.com strategy and operations, strategic planning and analysis, operational and information system improvement, information system implementation, supply chain management, revenue cycle redesign, and project management.Clients included: Columbia HCA, Ascension Health.

Researched the development and application of controlled medical terminologies. Collaborated with IBM to evaluate and enhance IBM’s knowledge representation software for healthcare applications. Led project to integrate the “Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes” (LOINC) terminology into existing the CPMC medical ontology, the Medical Entities.

Managed all lab resources including financial, computing, and technical staff. Launched productivity enhancement program which, combined with renegotiating pricing agreements, reduced operating costs by over 8% of budget. Designed and implemented architecture of new laboratory information system. Continued research on long-term sensitization and.

Worked on various projects related to long-term sensitization in Aplysia and long-term potentiation in Rat.Cloned and performed functional studies on the Rab3 gene and its protein products in Aplysia and several members of the MAP kinase gene family in Rat. Established automated DNA sequencing and computer-assisted analysis facility.

Ma, Biomedical Informatics

Ba, Premed/Political Science