Dear Colleagues, Students, and Friends:
The Negev Hi-Tech Faculty Startup Accelerator (NHSA)
and the Frenkel Center at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
are proud to announce a lecture in its "Distinguished Guest Lecturer Series"
by Prof. Gabby Sarusi, Deputy for Research, School of Electrical Engineering, BGU
Title: Incubation of Startup Companies from Idea to Sales
ABSTRACT: Entrepreneur, Founder, University-Researcher, Board-Member, How to Juggle it All? Being a university research professor and at the same time entrepreneur, founder and board member of start-up companies and a large company sounds like puzzling tasks. In this talk, first-hand stories and events will be discussed. The stories and test-cases will cover the spirit of entrepreneurship, what it means to being a co-founder, and how to select your partners. Who you should avoid and who should you join? The second part of the talk will be dedicated to the University – entrepreneurship professor conflict. Thoughts and suggestions to ease the process of university research commercialization will be discussed. The third part of the talk will be dedicated to the role of a board member in a different type of company, from gigantic companies to newborn startup companies.
BIO: Prof. Gabby Sarusi is a faculty member at the Department of Photonic and Electro-Optics Engineering and the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology (IKI) at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. His main areas of research are nano and quantum structure photonic devices, band-gap engineering, infrared physics, and detectors. He is the co-founder of several startup companies: NanoSono, TechSee, and SenSWIR. Prior to his academic and entrepreneurship carrier, he worked at Elbit-System–Electrooptic (ElOp) as V.P., Head of Space and Air Imagery Intelligence Division, V.P. Chief Scientist and Director of Thermal Imaging System Development. He holds double B.Sc. with honors in material sciences and nuclear engineering from Ben-Gurion University, M.Sc. with honors and Ph.D. and an MBA from Tel Aviv University in Physical-Electronics. He did his postdoc at AT& T Bell Labs. and in NASA-JPL.
