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GEW - NSM Panel Discussion Event

During the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), November 14th – 18th, the NSM college will host a panel speakers event on Tuesday, November 15th, from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm at Carlsen Center (Library 1520), for our faculty, staff, students, and the community. The panel speakers are : Dr. Ishita M. Shah, the CEO and co-founder of Matrubials; Mr. Peichen Chang, the CEO and Co-Founder at Engineered Medical Technologies; Mr. Gurkern Sufi, the Co-founder, inventor and CEO at Ravata Solutions. You are invited to attend the event and meet with the panelists!

Panelists Bios

  1. Ishita M. Shah, PhD, is the CEO and co-founder of Matrubials, a spin-out from UC Davis, Foods for Health Institute. As the Associate Director (Microbial Programs) at FFHI, she has investigated the role of milk components in human health, specifically in terms of infectious diseases. Previously, Dr. Shah has worked at Genentech (Senior researcher, infectious diseases) and Columbia University (Postdoctoral scientist), receiving several awards (PhD thesis prize -(UMBC'05)/ key researcher/ speaker).

  1. Peichen Chang, CEO and Co-Founder at Engineered Medical Technologies. Engineered Medical Technologies first product, tCheck, is the world's first home herbal infused oil potency testing device. Prior to joining Engineered Medical Technologies, Peichen worked on several other startup ideas, including: photography, social media, and high speed network testing equipment. They all pretty much crashed and burned. Had he learned about lean startup earlier, he probably could have saved lots of money and time. Most of his career was spent as a cube dweller for large corporations such as Hewlett-Packard, Emulex, and TD Ameritrade, moving from engineering to product management to fully lobotomized sales. He grew up as a DoD brat on the tropical island of Okinawa, Japan before moving to snowy upstate New York for his B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Afterwards, he went on to Oregon State University for his master’s in business administration and electrical engineering.

  1. Gurkern Sufi. Gurkern Sufi is a Co-founder, inventor and CEO at Ravata Solutions. Gurkern began his work in the field of biotech researching the means to detect infectious agents in blood using functionalized antibodies to graphene field effect transistors. In the face of adversity and in the name of innovation his work evolved to encompass the field of bio-electronics where he and his team pioneered single cell gene editing and evaluation of embryo quality for reproductive competency. Ravata Solutions bridges the work done in the semi-conductor industry to the needs of the biotech community pushing the standard of lab on chip technologies. Today they provide point of care diagnostics in the infertility space with the long-term goal of making IVF successful the first time for couples struggling to conceive.

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