Marc Rippen

Biography

I am a visionary leader, highly skilled engineer, scientist, technical sales and marketing professional with a proven track record in product development, program management and sales related to the application of high technology to solve what people thought where impossible problems. I relish solving impossible problems and facilitate the execution of the solutions to these in a timely, cost effective and professional manner to enable my clients to achieve maximum success in their application of technology in their business or in the execution of their operational mission. I am blessed with a proven ability for out of the box thinking. This is combined with a very broad education and experience base has provided my clients and employers truly unique and sometimes paradigm shifting solutions to their problems. I am experienced in raising venture and angel capital, strategic planning/sales management, business capture and execution management. These skills have allowed me to support the transition of technology from the lab into a startup businesses, and then to a publicly traded corporation. In business development I have a demonstrated ability to close and execute on intangible high risk research and development programs as well as on contracts to develop and deliver very complex analytical instrumentation and engineering systems.

Research Interest

 Business management