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Richard G. Caro
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Richard G. Caro is founder & CEO of TangibleFuture, Inc., where he helps managers and entrepreneurs create and grow businesses based on innovative science and technology — in fields such as life sciences, communications, cleantech, homeland security, and various applications of photonics & small-tech. Richard is also founding member of Acceleration Co-op, a global collective of "domain experts".
Prior to founding TangibleFuture, Inc. in 2004, Richard was Managing Director at RHK, a provider of advisory services to the communications industry, where he led consulting engagements with multinational businesses such as Intel, and Carl Zeiss; research institutions such as Battelle, and Sarnoff Corporation; and a variety of as-yet-unknown, emerging startup companies.
From 1986 to 1999 Richard held operational roles in high tech companies in Silicon Valley and Boston. He was CEO (founder) of Vital Insite, a venture-backed, medical device start-up, developing noninvasive monitoring products; Engineering Program Manager at Coherent, one of the world’s largest laser manufacturers; and CTO (employee #5) of Summit Technology, a pioneer in the laser refractive surgery (LASIK) business. Before entering industry, he was a member of the research staff at Stanford University.
Richard has been responsible for the development of a number of successful products, and has 23 issued patents. In addition to his work with TangibleFuture, Inc., Richard is an occasional angel investor, and has a keen interest in the education of science and technology entrepreneurs. He speaks regularly, around the world, on topics relating to turning science into profitable businesses. Richard is a regular mentor in business plan competitions at UC Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and the Cleantech Open, and is a member of the "Entrepreneur in Readiness" program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Born and raised in Australia, Richard received a B.Sc. (Hons) degree from Melbourne University, Australia (1977), and a D.Phil. in experimental physics from Oxford University (1982) — where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In 1982 he was awarded an IBM post-doctoral fellowship to work at Stanford University, and migrated to the USA where he has lived ever since.
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