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As an entrepreneur, Stan Lapidus raised more than $100 million and founded companies which have achieved a market capitalization of nearly $4 Billion. As a venture capitalist, he directs his fund's investments into validated business opportunities. Mr. Lapidus is a renowned engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur. He founded and served as Chairman of the Board and CEO of Itran Corporation, Cytyc Corporation, EXACT Sciences, and Helicos BioSciences. He also joined Flagship Ventures as a Venture Partner and serves as Director on the Board of TransMedics, a Flagship portfolio company Stan holds academic positions at MIT's Sloan School of Management, Harvard Medical School, and Tufts Medical School. He is a founding faculty member of the Harvard/MIT Biomedical Enterprise Program. Mr. Lapidus graduated from the Cooper Union in 1970 with a BSEE degree, and has been elected to the Board of Trustees of that school.
Ralph Grabowski is an MIT-trained Electrical Engineer who focuses on the fact-gathering, analytical, front-end marketing process to steer technology-based enterprises. He has helped launch new products, new companies, and new fields that gainfully employ thousands of his fellow engineers; and which have become worth more than ten Billion dollars. Mr. Grabowski has delivered more than one hundred papers, talks, and courses for universities, institutions, and professional societies. He is the co-founder of MIT's annual entrepreneurship program, co-founder of the popular MIT Sloan School of Management graduate course "Starting And Running A High Tech Company," co-founder of Technology Capital Network (TCN) at the MIT Enterprise Forum, co-founder of the North Shore Technology Council (NSTC), and co-founder of the world's first IEEE Robotics Chapter. Ralph was also an Adjunct Professor in the Marketing Department of Suffolk University's School of Management, teaching in Suffolk's Executive MBA Program. Click these links for additional information on his consulting practice, his role reviving companies as a temporary executive, and for his jump-starting enterprises as a VP of Marketing for startups. Mr. Grabowski performed the Market Research for Stan Lapidus, while Stan was still in his basement, which led to the formation of Cytyc, compelling of venture capital, new legislation by Congress, and Cytyc's fundamental product direction.
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