Casper Reaves

About Casper Reaves

Multi year experience in designing and implementing regional programs on innovation, creating strategic initiatives and partnerships, and promoting close collaboration between industry and academia. Specialize in developing innovative leaders through coaching and Leadership Management. Provides mentorship to innovator teams interested in launching a technology-based startup company.Strong track record of developing entrepreneurial educational programs for university researchers and students around the world, with special interest in providing access to training and mentorship opportunities to under represented groups.Strong commitment to personal and professional growth for mentees inclusive of women and people of color in the fields of engineering, STEM entrepreneurship, manufacturing, and financial services. Huge advocate for inclusive workplaces fostering a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Well-known for combining design thinking and advanced technology with innovative approaches to process development, and organizational expansion for start-ups, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations. Practice, scholarship, mentoring, and teaching draws upon combined background as an engineer and entrepreneur to grow entrepreneurial ecosystems by creating new educational programs, securing other mentors, identifying industry and community partners, obtaining student project opportunities, guiding students, and collaborating with University leaders on expanding sustainable innovation, entrepreneurship, and new business creation.Specialties: Operations ManagementTechnology licensingBusiness Analysis (STEM)Business Development (Start-ups)Early stage Technology CommercializationLeadership Development and Management TrainingEngineering Research (Manufacturing, Electronic Materials, and Devices)Feel free to connect via email: c••••••••@hotmail.com.

Experience

1. Instructor and Facilitator

   Mohave College

   Mar 2024 — Present · Kingman, AZ, US

   Corporate Education Division. Provide local companies and business leaders with workshops in leadership, management, communications, innovation, and technology.

Education

• Princeton University

  B.S.E., Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics

  1987 — 1991

• Antioch University

  Ph.D., Leadership and Change

  2020

• UC Santa Barbara

  Ph.D., Materials Engineering, Electronic Materials

  1991 — 1998

Skills

• Project Management
• Small Business
• Social Media
• Public Speaking
• Management
• Research
• Business Analysis
• Life Insurance
• Analysis
• Writing
• Management Development
• Manufacturing
• Strategic Planning
• Leadership Development
• Entrepreneurship
• Semiconductors
• Leadership