Chris Piercy
Deep Tech Business Development & Corporate Development Executive
- Role
- Chairman at Vq Research, Inc
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Chris Piercy
Deep Technology Business Development, Corporate Development, Sales and Licensing executive with strong technical and R&D background (Nature, Science, PNAS, etc. papers) with a proven ability to consistently achieve or exceed corporate goals, whose many million-dollar sales and business development wins have led to various fund raisings, company IPOs, and acquisitions. Experience, as executive management, with large venture and government fundings, buy/sell acquisitions (by US, European, and Asian top FORTUNE 500 companies), and IPOs on NASDAQ, LSE, and Euronext. Executive experience leading frontier technology GTM business development, sales, and licensing in automotive, EV, battery materials, quantum computing, AI, machine learning, semiconductor, biopharma, and other deep tech spaces. Corporate development work as executive management has enabled billions of dollars of successful venture capital and private equity funding rounds and other fundraisings. Experience as an investment banker on various international transactions and corporate securities. International experience (living many years in US, Asia, and Europe) and network, has enabled my companies to quickly ramp up sales, greatly expand corporate partnering initiatives, and see enormous increases in revenue and valuation/market cap.
Experience
Chairman
Jan 2014 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
At VQR (an additive manufacturing technology company based just outside NASA Ames Research Park 3D printing electronics), founder, CEO, and researcher that led company\'s DARPA research project, and now am Chairman of BOD.
Education
Wharton Executive Education
Certificate
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor's degree (double major), Genetics (Molecular Genetics / Biochemistry emphasis)
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Advanced Management College
Harvard Business School
Business School, Technology Startups
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor's degree (double major), History
Skills
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Valuation
- Licensing Agreements
- Accelerator
- Biotechnology Industry
- Biotechnology
- Global Business Development
- Executive Management
- Japanese
- International Sales
- Salesforce.com
- Licensing Negotiations
- Mobile Technology
- Licensing
- Sales Management
- Genomics
- High Performance Computing
- Sales
- Investment Banking
- French
- Mergers
- Competitive Analysis
- Selling
- Start-Ups
- Strategic Partnerships
- New Business Development
- Medical Devices
- International Business
- Venture Capital
- Semiconductors
- Management
- Strategy
- Marketing
- Creative Concept Design
- Email Marketing
- Nanotechnology
- International Business Development
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Pharmaceutics
- Ip
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