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Karen Kerr founded Agile Equities and serves as its Managing Director. Kerr was
most recently a Managing Director of ARCH Venture Partners and prior to that was an
investment professional at Patricof Ventures and ARCH Development Corporation.
Kerr has invested extensively in companies in the life sciences, energy, and
electronics industries many of which were based on AMMT innovations. Her
investments include Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN), Diversa (NASDAQ: DVSA), Silverstorm
Technologies (NASDAQ: QLGC), and Amberwave Systems. Kerr is a director of the
National Association of Seed and Venture Funds, a trustee of Bryn Mawr College, and
a member of the National Science Foundation SBIR/STTR Advisory Committee. Kerr
earned her doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of Chicago and an A.B.
in chemistry from Bryn Mawr College. She was a member of the Charter Class of
Kauffman Fellows.
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Gerald Fine is an advisor to Agile Equities. Fine was most recently a
Manufacturing Engineering Professor at Boston University. Prior to that, he spent 20
years at Corning in a variety of research and senior management roles in the
consumer products, video and display, and photonics divisions. Fine was named
Executive Vice President of Corning's Photonics Technologies in 2000. Currently Fine
consults to a number of large multinationals and serves on the Board of Directors of
four private companies. Fine has a PhD in Geology from the California Institute of
Technology, a BS from Amherst College, and has attended the Program for
Management Development at Harvard. He holds nine U.S. patents and has authored
numerous articles in both technical and trade journals.
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Mitch Tyson is an advisor to Agile Equities and the CEO of Advanced Electron
Beams. Tyson was the CEO of PRI Automation from 1987 to 2002 and guided the
company through its IPO in 1994 and its merger with Brooks Automation in 2002.
Prior to that, he was at CGA Corporation and served as science advisor and
legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas. Tyson is a director of Advanced
Electron Beam and Photronics and the Chairman of Amberwave Systems. He founded
the New England Energy Innovation Collaborative and serves as a director of the John
Adams Innovation Institute, the Mass High Technology Council, the UMass High Tech
Executives Council, and the Massport Security Advisory Council. Tyson has a BS in
Physics, and an MS in both Nuclear Engineering and Political Science, all from MIT.
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