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Joseph R. Flicek is a Managing Director of Amphion Innovations as well as an adjunct faculty member of Columbia University’s Graduate Business School in Entrepreneurship and assists faculty and students in startup businesses through entrepreneurship programs. Mr. Flicek created and established the New Ventures group of the Science & Technology Ventures Office at Columbia University in 1996. Under his leadership Columbia participated in the formation of over 40 new portfolio companies through 2001, four of which are publicly traded today. The Columbia portfolio companies have raised almost $1 billion in venture and public market financings, and have generated more than 1,500 jobs. Mr Flicek has previously served as the CEO of Supertron Technologies and has also served in a number of other management and Board level positions with early stage startups. He began his business career in New York with W.R. Grace & Company, as a business and market analyst supplying competitive intelligence, analytical reviews and investigating new business ventures for the $5 billion diversified firm. He received his MA in Chemistry and MBA from the University of South Dakota. He also holds a bachelor of sciences degree in chemistry and mathematics from the University of South Dakota. | 