Dr. Eugene Buff

New type of innovation management and business development firm. Thought leadership, advisement and execution directed towards companies’ growth by open innovation. Services include: • Training, mentoring and management of clients’ internal innovation process • Proactive strategy consulting • Technology scouting and external innovation vendors management • Partnership and networking access across industries and geographies

UsTech Discovery is a boutique business development and technology transfer consulting firm with focus on developing economies, such as Israel and countries of Former Soviet Union. UsTech is providing commercialization and business development services to Universities, small and large corporations as well as individual inventors and entrepreneurs.

Responsibilities included: • identification and management of projects for yet2.com clients on technology licensing and technology acquisitions • management and supervision of project delivery teams • deal negotiations for yet2.com clients (has been a primary broker on several highly publicized licensing deals – see http://www.yet2.com/app/about/about/press?page=press) etc.

As one of the company principals was a key figure in implementing Foresight growth and product line expansion as well as creating solid management structure and quality control assurance for assessment work for Universities technology transfer, federal Laboratories and R&D programs as well as corporate licensing and business development. Project Director for Foresight’s SBIR commercialization assistance programs and on major projects for universities, corporate and civilian agency accounts.