NMLEEP - Key Persons
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- Growth Strategist
- Operating Partner / CerraCap Ventures
Abhi is a Growth Strategist and an Innovation Evangelist having served the global technology industry for over 23 years orchestrating over $1.2B of Enterprise Software and Digital Strategy engagements, as well as serving as an Operating Partner for CerraCap Ventures.
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- Partner / Creative Ventures
Alex invests in entrepreneurs tackling pressing global macroeconomic trends, including demographic changes straining our healthcare system, secular labor shortages, and climate change. He has led investments in a number of deeptech categories including artificial intelligence, semiconductors, robotics, synthetic biology, and clean energy.
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- Program Manager, Feynman Center for Innovation / Los Alamos National Laboratory
Candice oversees New Mexico LEEP's strategy development, operations and overall program implementation.
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- Technology Commercialization Program Manager
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- Manager Technology & Economic Development
David is leading a feasibility study that is the basis for Sandia National Laboratories to join New Mexico LEEP in 2024.
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- Communications Specialist
Dharmesh has a solid background in marketing and videography, specifically in science communications. He is currently a Communications Specialist 2 at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he primarily focuses his expertise on the Feynman Center for Innovation.
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- Member of the New Mexico LEEP Team
- Program Director, Entrepreneurship & Mission Innovation / Los Alamos National Laboratory
Duncan focuses on transitioning R&D into applications across Los Alamos National Laboratory's mission portfolio. He leads the integration of New Mexico LEEP and Los Alamos National Laboratory with alignment of research capabilities to external partners and innovators.
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- Managing Partner / Lavrock Ventures
Jim is a seasoned technology and investment professional with a principle focus on companies with technologies that can have a positive impact on operational efficiencies, particularly in the US national security markets.
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- Program Manager, Entrepreneurship for Mission Innovation, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Kelly leads the New Mexico LEEP application process and facilitates pairing of fellows with laboratory talent and resources.
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- Member of the New Mexico LEEP Team
- Executive Director / Los Alamos Commerce & Development Corporation
Lauren oversees a broad portfolio of programs and initiatives, including New Mexico LEEP, that drive economic progress in Los Alamos and Northern New Mexico that provide services to businesses.
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- Team Leader, Technology Engagement & Entrepreneurship / Los Alamos National Laboratory
Richard is an experienced health care executive with broad experience in science, medicine and medical product development. He has served as Chairman and CEO of public and private companies in the biotechnology and medical technology sectors, and was a managing director of MPM Capital, one of the largest global life science funds.
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- Angel Investor, Entrepreneur
Richard is an investor, advisor, and professor of entrepreneurship. He is Chairman Emeritus of Tech Coast Angels (TCA), the largest angel organization in the U.S, where he also sits on the Board of Governors.
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- Executive Managing Director
- Global Executive
Victoria is a global executive with a multidisciplinary background in business strategy, private equity and VC investment, corporate development, and operations. She leads the world's #1 startup ecosystem for powering a better world via purpose-driven innovation and technology, aligning with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
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- Executive
- Managing Partner / Tramway Ventures
Waneta Tuttle is an innovator, executive, and board member with extensive experience in intersecting spheres of life sciences technology, health care delivery and health insurance. She is a Fund Manager for Tramway Venture Partners, LP and Tramway Venture Partners II, LP, which invests in early stage life sciences and healthcare companies in the Southwest.