Ms. Pressman is a self-employed business consultant providing advisory services to startups and venture capital companies. Among other projects for Harris & Harris Group, she has served as a consultant to the company in its due diligence work on Nantero, Inc., Nanopharma Corp., and NeoPhotonics Corporation. From 1989 until 2000, she was employed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Technology Licensing Office, serving as Technology Licensing Officer from 1989 to 1995 and Assistant Director from 1996 to 2000. She has previously been Senior Development Engineer at Lasertron, Inc., and a Member of the Solid State Materials Research Laboratory at Bell Laboratories. Ms. Pressman currently Chairs the Survey Statistics and Metrics Committee of the Association of University Technology Managers for which she edited the recent report on Academic Technology Transfer of 190 U.S. and Canadian institutions. She holds an S.B. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S.E.E. from the Columbia School of Engineering. |