IGERT Nano-Bio Innovation Seminar with Job Elders

Date: 03/20/2013
Time: 5:30 pm
Location: 335 Shillman Hall
Speaker: Job Elders, PhD, Director, Zinnergy innovation fund

Job Elders is chairman and board member of several high tech companies and director of Zinnergy innovation fund. Previously, he has founded and developed five MEMS companies including C2V which was acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific. He was founder of TMP and served as TMP’s Managing Director and he served as Vice President and General Manager of Alcatel Optronics Netherlands after Alcatel’s acquisition of the operations in 2001. Job Elders was founder and board member of the MANCEF foundation as well as founder of the Point One foundation and member of its board until 2010. He is the author of more than 80 technical and business publications as well as patents and has chaired and spoken at several MEMS events. He received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Amsterdam.