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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. Recent engagements have been in fields such as life sciences, communications, cleantech, homeland security, and various applications of photonics & small-tech.
Prior to founding TangibleFuture, Inc. at the end of 2003, 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., he is an occasional angel investor, and has a keen interest in the education of science and technology entrepreneurs — speaking regularly, around the world, on topics relating to turning science into profitable businesses.
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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