MIT Startup Exchange is convening our fourth MIT Startup Exchange Demo Day on Wednesday, March 30 (11 AM – 12:15 PM ET). The event will feature several exciting industry-ready startups in brief lightning talks and Q&A. Breakout rooms will follow at the end of the event.
This event is for ILP members. You can confirm your company's ILP membership here: https://ilp.mit.edu/search/members.
Co-Founder & CEO, Xinterra
Patrick Teyssonneyre is an entrepreneur, angel investor and accomplished senior executive with over 20 years of global experience in Deep Tech Ventures, Climate Tech and General Management of Innovation and Technology, having led the development of numerous Technologies, Products and Applications into successful commercialization in the Chemical and Materials Industries. Teyssonneyre has a B.S. in Materials Engineering, earned an M.B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Co-Founder & Head of Product, Modzy
Seth Clark is Co-Founder and Head of Product at Modzy. Prior to founding Modzy, Mr. Clark worked at Booz Allen Hamilton as a Principal in their Data Science practice. He has degrees in engineering from the University of Southampton and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Co-Founder & CEO, Prisma Retail
Lucas Gorganchian is a Tech Entrepreneur and MIT Sloan Fellow class of 2015. He founded his first software company at the age of 22 and has more than 17 years in the Retail Tech Sector. He created a Retail Business Simulation Game that was used to train executives of multinational companies from around the world. Currently, he is the Co-Founder and CEO of PrismaRetail.
Chief Operating Officer, QuesTek
Bill Mahoney was appointed Chief Operating Officer of QuesTek Innovations, LLC, effective January 1, 2022.
Mahoney is also the CEO of WTM Development, LLC, a strategic advisory and operations services firm. Through this entity, Bill currently serves on the Boards of QuesTek International, LLC, Mid-America Applied Technologies Corporation, Intelligent Manufacturing Systems International, and the World Manufacturing Foundation. His most recent operations contract prior to QuesTek was as CEO of ASM International, the world’s largest professional technical society for materials scientists, engineers, and technicians. He held that post between September, 2016 and November, 2020.
Prior to ASM, Mahoney was the CEO of the South Carolina Research Authority (SCRA). He held this post from August, 2005 to March, 2016. During that tenure, SCRA was a non-stock, tax-exempt applied R&D corporation, which operated under a public charter from the state of South Carolina, but was economically self-sufficient due to its business operations, and received no state funding.
During the roughly 30 years prior to coming to SCRA, Bill led companies small and large which commercialized ″first-of-a-kind″ solutions in telecommunications, electronic publishing, automatic remote monitoring and other emerging applied systems markets, leading directly to IPO’s or strategic acquisitions. Among these companies was SCT Utility Systems, of Columbia, SC. Between 1995 and 2000, SCT grew from startup to $175M annual revenues, prior to its sale to Indus International (now Ventyx Corp). SCT′s installed base of Customer Information Systems for Energy, Utility, and Communications companies is still one of the largest of its kind in the world.
Founder & CEO, Notch
Dr. Shahriar Khushrushahi has over a decade’s experience in designing, simulating, and testing wireless devices. He has worked on projects designing wireless data and power connectors for modular phones (Google Project ARA) and wearable smart jackets (Google Project Jacquard). He has also experience working on applications of electromagnetics that range from oil spill cleanup using magnetic nanoparticles, magnetic field-controlled drug delivery devices and optimizing motor designs for flying cars (Airbus Vahana). He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology (2003), and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is the recipient of a best paper award, two fellowships and is the co-inventor on 5 patent and patent-pending applications. Notch Inc. is the second company he has co-founded.
Executive, Global Neighbor
Bio coming soon.
Chief Product Officer, Basis Technology
Dr. Catherine Havasi is a technology strategist, AI researcher and entrepreneur, who has been working to apply emerging AI technology to real problems. She is the Chief Product Officer of Basis Technology. Previously, she founded the MIT startups Luminoso and Dalang and worked as a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab.
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