Who: Manny Ratafia
What: Figuring out the potential of your product, invention, or technology—and achieving that potential.
Where: Fairfield University Dolan School of Business DINING ROOM (104A)
When: Monday, April 28, 2014; 7:00 PM.
cost: Admission is free.

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Manny Ratafia will discuss how to assess the market potential of an invention, new product or new technology. He will also present alternate approaches to commercializing new products or technologies, from licensing out to building a company. Manny will review commercialization projects he has been involved with and will also welcome case studies from the audience. Bring yourself and your interests, and feel free to also bring your own venture, invention, or product to present for discussion.

Manny Ratafia is an entrepreneur, management consultant, and angel investor. He has founded and run ventures in a variety of technology areas and has consulted to CEOs, owners, and senior executives of companies in medical devices, medical imaging, consumer products, plastics processing, high tech materials, 3D printing and additive manufacturing, digital imaging, metrology, scientific instruments, computer software and hardware, digital video systems, medical disposables, wound healing, pharmaceuticals, separations, biotechnology, chemicals, publishing, conferences, factory automation, laboratory instrumentation, sensors, and consulting. Manny has also run international conferences for senior executives and researchers in a variety of technology and market subjects.

Manny has an MBA from Dartmouth, a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Cooper Union and master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and in Engineering and Applied Physics from Harvard. Manny’s research and opinions have been published and quoted in more than 100 general, business and scientific publications in the U.S., Europe, and Japan.