About Kevin
My Professional Bio (pdf) and LinkedIn Profile
As an engineering grad student at Stanford University I took an entrepreneurship class and found my calling.
Since then I’ve been part of America’s startup community as an entrepreneur, investor, and advisor. I LOVE what I do and write about what works, doesn’t work, what happens in the trenches, and why Lean Startups are so hard.
As an Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the National Science Foundation (NSF) I mentor dozens of startups in industries as diverse as biotech, manufacturing, and enterprise/consumer software. Through NSF I’ve helped startups at workshops at Stanford, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon and am proud to be a co-instructor at NSF’s new iCorps program with living legends Steve Blank, John Feiber, and Alexander Osterwalder.
While living in Washington, DC I founded and co-organized the DC Lean Startup Meetup where entrepreneurs learn from each other and the world’s best advisors like Eric Ries, Dave McClure, and Brad Feld.
As an investor for a strategic government fund, I helped make over $20M of venture investments in 25 start-ups. I’ve raised venture capital and won NSF grants to fund my own startups in consumer finance, transportation, and healthcare.
I advocate for regenerative medicine and serve on Aubrey de Grey’s SENS Foundation’s board with members of the Peter Theil Foundation and philanthropist/entrepreneur Bill Liao.
I live on Planet Earth with my best friend and wife. We love golfing and traveling to wonderful places like Australia where I posed for this photo op with the ambassador.
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