Stanford University
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Michael Lyons
Adjunct Lecturer, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Bio-Co-founded Zilkha Venture Partners; sourced investments that returned 5.8x ; rated Top 5% by Cambridge Associates
-Venture Partner at four other Funds including DFJ/ePlanet I & II, Paladin Capital Group- Deals created $50B+ in market value
-Co-founder, CEO or Chairman or C-Suite of 12 Companies including Integrated Systems (INTS, merged with WIND, acq. by Intel), Shadow Networks acq. by Alcalvio), and CypherPath
(acq. by ManTech); co-founding CEO, SafeView (Acq. By L3-Harris then Leidos) Returned 78% IRR for Series A and 163% IRR for Series B investors
-Currently Chairman PrecisionOSTech (Surgical VR Training); and Turbo Protocol (Web 3 Blockchain ); co-founder & CEO (emeritus), RapidAscent (Cyber Ed); Director RTI, global
leader in IIoT; General Partner, NativeFirst Capital
-Co-founder, Numerous SCPD exec Ed Programs, Idea to Market online program, Price-Babson Fellow in eShip Education
He is also a Managing Director of NewLine Ventures, LLC, a management consulting firm. From 2008 to 2011, he also served as a Venture Partner with the Paladin Capital Group in Washington, D.C., and as a Venture Partner for ePlanet Ventures I and II. He founded SafeView, Inc. in 2002, a Government Laboratory (PNNL) spinout, to address aspects of the anti-terrorist physical security market; He served as Chairman until its sale to L3 Harris in March 2006. Leidos then acquired the Company in 2020. This technology is now the security standard in airports worldwide.
Concurrently, Mr. Lyons is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Stanford University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Serving in the Stanford position since 1988, he was a co-developer of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program with Prof. Tom Byers and the founding professor of Technology Venture Formation. Engineering. He is the co-creator of the Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship two-week program for existing high-tech companies produced and managed by the Stanford Center for Professional Development (SCPD). This program has just completed its 14th year. He has co-produced and delivered numerous other SCPD and STVP programs. He co-founded the Ratio Academy focused on creating training platforms for entrepreneurial education, with a co-developed online program with SCPD called Idea to Market, I2M. He is the founding professor of Tech Venture Formation, MSE273.
From 1980 to 1991, he was a co-founder, a Vice-President, and a Director of Integrated Systems Inc. (INTS, founded 1980), a leading implementer of high-performance real-time control systems for aircraft, automotive, and manufacturing applications. INTS was fundamentally a spinout from the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Lab and Systems Control, Inc. The Company was merged with WindRiver Systems in 1999. WindRiver was acquired by Intel in 2009.
Mr. Lyons received a Bachelor and Masters (equivalent) in Engineering Physics from Cornell University, an MSEE from Stanford, did Ph.D research in Aero/Astro at Stanford (abd) and an MBA, with Distinction, from the Pepperdine Presidential/Key Executive Program. He is a graduate of the Stanford/AEA Institute for the Management of High Technology Companies and a Price-Babson Fellow in Entrepreneurship Education. He holds an FAA multi-Engine Airline Transport Pilot License and Certified Flight Instructor Certificates for Instrument and Multi-Engine Aircraft. He is an avid sailor and motorcyclist. -
Ade Mabogunje
Sr Research Engineer
BioAde Mabogunje conducts research on the design thinking process with a view to instrumenting and measuring the process and giving feedback to design thinking teams on ways to improve their performance. He works in collaboration with partners in the engineering education, design practice and investment community as a participant-observer in the practice of building and developing ecosystems that support accelerated and continuous innovation in products and services. Prior to this he was the associate director of the Stanford Center for Design Research (CDR). He was also the lead of the Real-time Venture Design Lab program (ReVeL) in the school of Humanities and Sciences. His industry experience includes engineering positions at the French Oil Company Elf (now Total) and research collaboration with Artificial Intelligence Scientists at NASA Ames. He has publications in the areas of design theory and methodology, knowledge management, emotions in engineering, design protocol analysis, and engineering-design education.
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Viviana Macarelli
Postdoctoral Scholar, Bioengineering
BioViviana earned her PhD in Clinical Biochemistry from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2024, where she focused on the role of primary cilia in metabolic sensing by the hypothalamus. She then joined the Lundberg lab as a postdoc for a project in collaboration with the Chan Zuckerberg Imaging Institute. She will focus on characterizing primary cilia in the adult brain using human induced pluripotent stem cells (hIPSC).
