Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Mike Masterson is an entrepreneur and executive with over 30 years experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech, advanced materials, and energy industries. His career incorporates venture creation experience as a founding CEO, BOD Chairman, and Venture Partner. Mike currently serves as the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of ALD NanoSolutions, Inc. He also serves as a Founding Partner in Breton Capital Management, a special situation private equity firm. Previously, Mike served as the Founding Board Member of ezCater, Inc., Co-Founder and BOD Member of Sundrop Fuels, Inc., Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Nemucore Medical Innovations, Inc., and Chairman and CEO of Xcellerex, Inc.(acquired by GE Healthcare). Mike’s career also includes experience as a Venture Partner at Flagship Ventures where he was founding CEO of multiple ventures, including BG Medicine (NASDAQ: BGMD). He was also Co-founder/CEO of Kemper-Masterson, Inc. (acquired by Parexel International, Inc. – NASDAQ PRXL). ). He completed the Harvard Business School Owners-Presidents Management Program (OPM), received a Master of Science, Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado-Boulder, and a Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Mike also received the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award from both the University of Colorado and the University of Massachusetts. He is also currently the Board Chairman at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA.