ACCELERATE LI - Key Persons
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- Site Head for NY / NJ Celdara Medical
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- Director Strategic Planning & Business Development Customized Energy Solutions
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- David Calone CEO / President
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- Director, Technology Commecialization Office City University of New York
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- Vice President, Industry & External Affairs the Research Foundation for SUNY
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- David Calone CEO / President
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- Senior Director, New Ventures
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- Finance Director
- Finance Director for Accelerate Long Island
In addition to her role as Finance Director, Michelle also serves as the Finance Director for Accelerate Long Island and Chief Financial Officer for the Long Island Association, the region's leading business organization.
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- Principal
- Principal for the Accelerate NY Seed Fund
Noel is a Principal for the Accelerate NY Seed Fund where she evaluates and performs diligence on applicant companies and their technologies. Prior to her role with Accelerate NY, Noel directed the formulation R&D for Symbiotic Health, a NYC startup company focused on oral drug delivery of cellular and biologic therapeutics to the lower GI tract. She also founded a food safety diagnostics company in Calverton, NY, and worked with Sapling Learning, a STEM educational software startup acquired by Macmillan Learning.
Noel obtained her PhD from Rockefeller University, postdoc-ed at Harvard Medical School as a fellow in the Society of Fellows, and served as an Assistant Professor of Physics at Hunter College, CUNY, before joining the NY entrepreneurial community.
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- US Head, Global Business Development Hengrui Medicine
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- Managing Director
- Director of Technology Commercialization at Stony Brook University
- NY Seed Fund - Director, Office of Technology Licensing and Industry Relations Stony Brook University
In parallel to his role as Managing Director, Peter is the Director of Technology Commercialization at Stony Brook University, where he is broadly responsible for the identification, development, and commercialization of promising early stage technologies.
Prior to joining Stony Brook, he held similar roles at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Iowa, where he was also adjunct MBA faculty in innovation. Earlier, Peter led the innovation and product development consulting practice for Accenture in China and built and managed a very large internal innovation pipeline.
As an entrepreneur, he was CEO of an early-stage biotech firm that raised venture capital and grants totaling $20 million and which he successfully sold. Peter was also a co-founder and COO of a thin film startup company that raised $30 million in venture capital and reached $10M in revenue. The founders of over 50 startups have engaged him as a consultant.
Peter gained early professional development with Intel and The Boston Consulting Group. He has an MS in Biotechnology and MBA from the Johns Hopkins University.
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- Assistant Director New York Ventures / Empire State Development
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- Head of Strategy, External R & D Pfizer