Serial entrepreneur. Founded and ran GlobalSpec (“vertical search engine” for engineers), raised $20 million from Warburg Pincus & grew the company from 4-person startup to 235-person leader in the engineering information market. Twice InfoCommerce Model of Excellence Award and on the “25 Companies to Watch” by Cahners. GlobalSpec was recently sold to IHS ($160 MM valuation).
12 year GE CRD.
MS & PhD MIT Mech. Eng.

20+ year Intl. acad. (research, faculty and admin) in USA, Canada, and Europe. Recognized world-class expert in seminal tech and lead co-inventor of IP. Helped raise CDN$ 60.5MM for Univ. Montreal multidisc. Res. infrastructure. Former NSF Presidential Young Investigator, Canada Research Chair, Frontier Fellow of the National Academy of Eng.
Raised over $2,000K in R&D contracts for FFF.
Ph.D. Stanford Mech. Eng.

Cofounder GlobalSpec
14 yrs SVP Prod & Eng., GlobalSpec
18 yrs GE Corporate R&D
RPI MS in Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering

13 years public accounting experience
2 years in business as Tech Valley Accounting Services, LLC
Concentration: High-Tech Client Base
SUNY Albany BS in Accounting

Co-developed company’s IP
13 years in LCVD
Research faculty:
4 years Clarkson University
PhD Univ. Montreal (Polytechnique) in MechE

14 years in LCVD
Researcher:
Max-Plank Institute (Gottingen, Germany)
Uppsala Universitet (Sweden) PhD in Microsystems Technology