David Bean, President
David Bean, BSME / MBA, has extensive experience in engineering, manufacturing, marketing and business development with Corning Incorporated. Bean managed the marketing of Corning's optical components for telecommunications which included their market-leading pump laser business. Mr. Bean's significant accomplishments include helping launch InfiniCor™ optical fiber (the industry's best-selling multimode fiber), recommending and supporting the successful acquisition of Lasertron Inc., and growing Corning's pump laser business to be the market share leader.
Ed Jarvis
Mr. Jarvis is the current Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Entrata, LLC, where he has reduced annual operating costs by $4.5 million, realized $2 million of new revenue within 90 days, and reduced costs of goods sold $12 million. During this time he also raised $3 million, conceptualized, and founded a company whose mission is to fight childhood obesity by designing, manufacturing, and marketing fitness equipment. He is also currently the CEO and Executive Board Member of Threellop, leading the business expansion of DNA computing technologies into the industrial field. Mr. Jarvis was the President of One Xcel, Inc. As President and Chairman, he increased shareholder value and created a lucrative competitive bid situation by successfully validating a key new product and developed international relationships within the medical community and sports industry. Mr. Jarvis and his team invented, patented, and created the new category of optically correct eye shields for professional and amateur athletes. He sponsored the National Championship of Collegiate Ice Hockey and negotiated exclusive licensing agreements with the National Football League, National Hockey League, and the AHCA. Mr. Jarvis has been profiled by CNN, CNBC, NESN, American Business Network, Bloomberg Network, Business Week, U.S. News and World Report, Sports Illustrated, and Success magazine. Mr. Jarvis became President and Chairman of Alden Rowing Shells, LLC turning it around, making it a profitable and thriving company. Mr. Jarvis’s impressive career extends beyond the executive realm he is an Advisory Council Member at Bridgewater State University College of Science & Mathematics. . He is a former member of The Maine Applied Technology Development Center, Bridgewater State College Foundation, The Lynn Business Education Foundation, and Prevent Blindness America. Mr. Jarvis has been profiled in Marquis Who’s Who in “The World”, “America”, “Finance & Industry”, and “The East.” Mr. Jarvis has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology and History from Bridgewater State University, a Graduate Business Certificate from Dartmouth College, has earned graduate credit in Educational Psychology from Salem State University, and earned an Executive Master of Business Administration with honors from Suffolk University.
George Lauro
Mr. Lauro is the founding partner of Alteon Capital Partners LLC, a Venture Development firm based in Cambridge, MA. Alteon builds companies commercializing advanced technologies, provides corporate development, equity financing and M&A advisory. He has served on the Board of Directors of 15 public and private companies since 1997. He also was Partner and Managing Director of two venture capital funds; Techfarm Ventures, a fund that invests in early-stage technology companies, and Wasserstein Private Equity, a technology venture capital and leveraged buyout fund. He opened and managed Wasserstein's Silicon Valley office in Palo Alto. He led and syndicated 15 equity financing rounds, raised over $100M equity financing for portfolio companies and was involved in M&A transactions exceeding $1B in combined value. He was an operating executive before becoming a venture capitalist. As Director of Rapid Commercialization for IBM, he led a group that brought advanced technologies from IBM's development labs to market, including Silicon Germanium wireless components and GPS. He also was Director of New Business Development for Motorola where he conceived the world's first handheld GPS navigation product (Traxar GPS) and launched Motorola's RFID and GPS business, Through these positions, he has had a lead role in launching and building several wireless businesses, some became significant with revenue exceeding $500M/yr. He also has been awarded 23 patents for inventions in radio identification devices, GPS, RFIC's and missile guidance. He attended Brown University (BSEE), Wharton (MBA), and MIT (graduate studies in aeronautical engineering).
Michael Marsh
Michael Marsh is an entrepreneur who has founded or co-founded five successful software companies in the course of his career. His first company, a CAD/CAM business that was later sold to a global electronics business, was founded while he was still in college. In 1985 he helped found another CAD/CAM company, now part of a large US public company, that developed the most widely used software system in the world electronic circuit design. The next business was international software distrubtor that assisted small and medium size US companies to market and distribute their products in Asia and Europe. This business was later sold to a large Japanese electronics company. The last company Marsh founded became the world's leader in control systems for German electrical/electronics corporation and the software is used in electronic manufacturing centers throughout Asia, Europe, and North America. Marsh is currently a private investor and serves as a director of several New England technology companies. Until recently he was a member of the Ways and Means committee in the New Hampshire legislature. He currently lives in Greenland, NH with his wife and family.
Greg Smith
Greg Smith is the president of Corning Innovation Ventures. Greg joined Corning Inc. in 1983 in the Wilmington, NC manufacturing facility. In the past nineteen years, he ahs served in a variety of engineering and managerial positions in manufacturing, marketing, and business development. Greg founded CIV with a unique formula in corporate venture capital, aimed at both financial returns through strategic corporate leverage. The CIV team assembled its aim at providing key expertise and hands-on support beyond what traditional VC's offer. The results have been best in class portfolio and achieving results in their target area of optical communications. Greg holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering, and attended graduate studies in electrical engineering, both at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a member of the Society of Cable Television Engineers, IEEE, and chairs the TIA committee on optical fibers and materials. Greg also holds three US patents and eighteen international patents in the area of optical communications.
Rod Van Sciver
Rod owned and operated TimberTech Company, a wood pallet manufacturing and service business that he started in 1975. The business operated from two New Hampshire locations, one in Hooksett and the other in Windham, employing up to forty-five people. He sold the business in 2002. Prior to starting TimberTech, he worked for Pennsylvania Box and Lumber Company as assistant controller, at American Friend Service in Alabama where he set up a community owned pallet manufacturing company and for IBM as a new product research analyst. Rod is currently a member of the eCoast Angel Network in Portsmouth, NH which invests in area start up technology businesses. He is active in several eCoast investments and sits on the boards of three portfolio companies- Aras, Media Mate, and Seminex. He is also a founding member of Education for All Children, a non-profit that funds high school scholarships for bright and needy students in developing countries. Rod Graduated with a BS in mechanical engineering from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1966 and from The Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth with an MBA in 1968. He currently lives in Rye, NH with his wife.
