Terry Cross

Biography

Terry Cross graduated from Wayne State University, Detroit Michigan in 1968 with a Masters in Business Administration. He has been an Angel investor and businessman for over 40 years. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of Great Lakes Angels and a founding member of The Michigan Venture Capital Association. While he has served on many boards over the years, his current board memberships include: AutoHarvest as the Senior Director; Fusion Coolant Systems as Chairman; Monarch Antenna, a Delphi Corp. spinout, RetroSense and SPLT.io. Mr. Cross served as the first Executive in Residence for Entrepreneurship at The School of Business Administration at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, where he administers the prestigious Adams Entrepreneurial Fellowship and received the 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award. Terry was a co-founder of Sonoma Photonics, recently sold to NorthrupGrumman. He was a founding investor in two startups from MIT’s tech transfer department and served on MIT’s Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity. In September of 2007, he was named to the Task Force for A World Financial Center by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, one of Korea’s most prestigious institutions. He was employed by Kidder, Peabody in various financial services and investment banking activities in Detroit, New York and San Francisco for 28 years until his retirement in 1998.

Research Interest

Business Administration.