David Washburn

Dave Washburn

Summary

Since September 2001, I have been involved in commercializing inventions created and developed by members of the University of Illinois campus community. I focus specifically on technologies and inventions developed by faculty, students and staff in the College of Engineering, the Department of Computer Science, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. My time in this role is spent identifying, protecting, marketing and negotiating license agreements for university owned intellectual property.

Start up Companies

I have helped launch new software start-up companies that have raised over $30M in venture funding with an aggregate market value exceeding $200M.

My Background

Prior to joining the Office of Technology Management, I spent time in various business development and operations roles for a variety of Illinois-based scientific software and programming tools companies, including Wolfram Research, Kuck & Associates (now Intel) and InstallShield Software Corporation (now Flexera Software).