Allied Minds, a US-based specialist in commercialising university research, has appointed Donna See as its new vice-president. See will oversee Allied Minds’ partnerships with US universities.
See previously held the position of director at Columbia University’s technology transfer office, Licensing and Strategic Initiatives. In total, she has gathered more than 14 years of experience in tech transfer, public-private partnerships as well as early-stage technology development.
While at Columbia’s See managed a portfolio of more than 1,000 projects spanning from life sciences to cybersecurity to semiconductors. She closed more than 100 deals and assisted in the more than 20 spin-out launches in the past two years alone.
Prior to her position at Columbia, she served as director of business development and technology transfer at New York Presbyterian Hospital. She has also been a reviewer for the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research programme, and has secured more than a combined $23m in seed funding for various companies.
Donna See said: “It is a privilege to be joining Allied Minds, a firm that occupies a unique position in the growing sector of early-stage technology developers. Allied Minds does not just fund companies, the team builds companies, working side-by-side with university and national lab inventors, their tech transfer champions, and experienced entrepreneurs. As funders and operators of the companies they build, Allied Minds understands the challenges and opportunities of early-stage tech commercialisation. I am very much looking forward to working with old and new friends and colleagues from the tech transfer world, with whom I hope to build value in many other ways beyond the four corners of a deal.”
