Samuel Miranda
United States
Mr. Akash Bhavsar serves as Managing Director at Skyquest Technolgy Consulting. He is an Angel Investor. He has several years of technology management and business consulting experience involving diverse industries including Clean Technology, Renewable Energy, Life Sciences & ICT Sectors. He has been instrumental in establishing collaborations with South-South Global Assets & Technology Exchange (A UNDP SSC unit Promoted Technology Exchange Platform), Shanghai, China; Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute, Israel; Shanghai Technology Transfer & Exchange, China; National Agency for Science & Technological Innovation, Vietnam; T2C Associates, Inc. Taiwan, NMD Consulting Inc., USA, etc. With his prolific experience spanning the USA, Germany, Israel, Canada, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, he brings in holistic perspective & skills to diligently evaluate & value the commercialization potential of technologies. Mr. Bhavsar has been part of 32 licensing deals & has been involved in fund-raising of ~90 Mn USD. He has high-quality experience of dealing with Top Researchers, Diplomats as well as Corporates from various countries. His professional experience includes employment at the Indian Council of Market Research, Planman Consulting India (P) Ltd., Veeda Clinical Research Pvt. Ltd. & Spectrum Clinical Research Pvt. Ltd. He has been involved in designing & delivering several training courses/workshops related to Technology Management, Innovation & Entrepreneurship globally. He has authored articles on topics like Technology Transfer, Open Innovation & Contract Research & Manufacturing Services. He also holds charge of India Workstation Manager for UNDP promoted South-South Global Assets & Technology Exchange. He has been selected as a Member of UN ESCAP Business Advisory Council (EBAC). He is on the Board of Directors of Alfa Corpuscles Pvt Ltd., a Medical Device Start-up. He is the President of the Indian Innovators Association, Western Chapter, A member of Licensing Executives Society, Technology Innovation International, Charter Member of TiE and member of the American Association for Advancement of Sciences (AAAS). Above all, he is passionate about turning promising scientific ideas into useful products and scalable ventures and believes that innovation is critical for the advancement of Humankind.
Individual/Angel