Dr Bala S. Manian
Founder of ReaMatrix
Entrepreneur, Innovator, Investor and Mentor
Member of Silicon Valley Entrepreneurial Community

"Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur"

Synopsis

During this talk, Dr Bala Manian will describe his trials and tribulations as an entrepreneur in “Silicon Valley” over a period of last three decades.

Dr Manian will articulate not just the thrill of his successes in each journey but more importantly outline and share the agonies of his failures in specific detail and the lessons he learned through those failures.

Through the narratives of his journeys, Dr Manian hopes to convey what he has learned over those three decades, what worked for him and what did not, the mentors who made a difference, what he understood about himself and what he is still trying to figure out.

Speaker

Dr Manian has been an entrepreneurial innovator, investor and a mentor in the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial community for the last three decades. At present Dr Manian is focused on ReaMetrix, which he founded in May of 2003. ReaMetrix is focused on bringing affordable and yet economically attractive solutions to address the needs of developing nations. ReaMetrix is using this activity as a means to evolve out-of- box innovations to address global healthcare needs.

Dr Manian is a founder and/or a co-founder of a large number of successful life science and medical technology companies in Silicon Valley over the last thirty years. He was a member of the faculty at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY for four years before his activities in Silicon Valley. Over the last eight years he has been spending a lot of time in India on the ground and that experience has shaped his views on what can and cannot be accomplished through India. He serves on the board of BIOCON, a leading Biotechnology company in India. He also serves as an advisor to several Governmental & non-Governmental life science initiatives in India. He holds a B. S. degree in Physics from the University of Madras, an M. S. degree in Applied Optics from the University of Rochester, and a Ph. D. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University.