Randy Shawn Fisher, CEORandy is a business strategist and advisor, marketing coach, UX researcher and facilitator with 20+ years of experience working with innovative leaders, startups and entrepreneurs. He is the Founder of Customer Discovery Pros, a venture of DigiWise Digital Solutions LLC of Somerset, New Jersey, USA.
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Randy has mentored startups in the National Science Foundation's highly-regarded Innovation Program (NSF I-Corps) to commercialize technology and secure investment / funding in New Jersey. He is frequently asked to mentor teams in regional and national programs. He is an adjunct professor at Rutgers University (since 2017), teaching courses in business and proposal writing, interview skills and social media.
Randy was involved in TechStars 1st-Global Online Startup Weekend: Unite to Fight COVID-19. He has designed and delivered workshops and webinars about customer discovery and market validation.
He has a degrees in political science (McGill); journalism (King's); a Masters degree in Organization Management and Development (Fielding) and Executive High Tech MBA training from Newbridge Networks and University of Ottawa. Connect with Randy on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/customerdiscoverypros/
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John A. FraserJohn is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Washington DC. retired from Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida as Assistant VP for Research & Economic Development and Executive Director, Office of Commercialization; and Director, University / Industry Liaison Office, Simon Fraser University.
He was President and Chair of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM Board), the global association of academic technology transfer professionals (2006) and a leading advocate for AUTM's Better World Project. In 2020, he and was the recipient of AUTM's Bayh-Dole Award. He was Executive VP and co-founder of UTC, Inc., a venture capital backed, North Carolina-based university licensing/technology transfer firm; and VP, Technology Development Corporation,, a Toronto and Vancouver-based venture capital investment firm. He has co-founded 3 companies, assisted entrepreneurs with resources to launch another 40+ university technology-based firms and created or headed 4 university technology commercialization organizations – 2 in the US, 2 in Canada, 2 for–profit and 2 not-for-profit. John holds a Master’s Degree in Biochemistry from the University of California - Berkeley. Connect with John on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-a-fraser-6b78884/ |
John A. Fraser
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Richard (Dick) Cahoon
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Dick has 35+ years experience in invention management, technology-based business development and innovation; strategic planning; entrepreneurship. He was Director of Cornell University's Tech Transfer Office for 20 years, and continues to teach about IP / Innovation and creativity at Cornell. He is Lead Mentor with the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Enabling Innovation Environment Mentoring Program, developing IP / Patent capacity in university tech transfer offices throughout Asia.
He has worked on a variety of new technology projects with universities, government agencies, and companies in various countries. His work has included project design and management and high-level advisory and mentoring roles for institutions, ministries, and companies in over twenty-five countries, and the United Nations. He has been an advisor to World Bank, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) the governments of Qatar, Canada, Thailand, Philippines, Serbia, the State of Michigan, USAID, and the U.S. Department of Commerce, as well as universities, companies, and NGOs in Turkey, Argentina, Chile, Japan, Jamaica, Philippines, South Africa, India, Korea, Bahrain, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Iran, Colombia, Brazil, the US, and the European Union. Richard Cahoon is an Adjunct Professor in Global Development at Cornell. His specialties include: intellectual property (IP), new technology development and implementation, entrepreneurship/intrapreneurship, and innovation. He has significant experience in management of R&D, invention and IP, partnerships, technology commercialization, venture creation, licensing, business development, negotiation, and mediation. Richard has served as an expert in numerous IP litigations and has conducted many IP/technology valuations. His emphasis includes the implications of invention and IP assets for individuals, public sector institutions, and private sector actors that comprise the innovation ecosystem. He is an inventor and a U.S. patentee. He has founded or participated in the creation and launch of numerous start-up companies. Connect with Richard on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-cahoon-05031b1/
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Richard (Dick) Cahoon
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