Chris Ghere is the Senior Venture Development Manager in the University of Minnesota (UMN)’s Venture Center, where he helps researchers establish companies based on technology invented from the University’s research. The Venture Center team is responsible for leading the formation and launch of new companies based on a broad range of technologies coming out of the research enterprise at the University of Minnesota. Chris’ responsibility in the Venture Center focuses on the early projects that need assistance with team formation, entreprenurial strategy and seeking early staged capital. Join us for tea and cookies.
As usual, this tea talk is for everyone, regardless of how much background you have in computing. This talk might also be interesting to folks in biology and chemistry as well; two Carleton alums from those majors also work at the Venture Center and Chris will speak to how they got from STEM at Carleton to helping to launch startups.