Past Experience: Founder & CEO of Nerites Corporation, a venture capital backed medical device firm developing novel tissue adhesives for use in surgery, purchased in 2011 by Kensey Nash for $20M. Founder and Business Manager of Vysis, an Amoco Technology Company focusing on prenatal and cancer diagnostics. Vysis was acquired by Abbott for $270M. Over 30 years of experience in developing new business utilizing breakthrough technologies.

Chair, Department of Physics , Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Authored over 45 peer-reviewed articles in leading scientific journals, including Journal of Biological Chemistry, Biophysical Journal, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, Physical Review, Lab on a Chip, Integrative Biology, and Nature Photonics.

Jeff Rusinow has been an active member of the early-stage venture
capital community in the Midwest since 2000, when he founded
Mi lwa u k e e ’ s fi r s t a n g e l n e two r k , S i l i c o n P a s t u r e s
(www.siliconpastures.com). He earlier spent 22 years in retail
management, holding senior executive positions at Macy’s, Gimbel’s,
Hudson Bay Company and, most recently, Kohl’s Department Stores,
where he served as an Executive Vice Pr