Shintaro Kaido, Vice Provost for Innovation and Executive Director, Drexel Applied Innovation, Drexel University
Shintaro Kaido is Vice Provost for Innovation and Executive Director, Drexel Applied Innovation at Drexel University. As Drexel’s inaugural Vice Provost for Innovation, Shintaro works with Drexel’s senior leadership to chart the future course of Drexel’s innovation ecosystem. As Executive Director of Drexel Applied Innovation, Shintaro leads a team of 11 professionals to expand the impact of Drexel research through tech transfer. Shintaro is a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) as well as a Registered Tech Transfer Professional (RTTP).
Appointed by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, Shintaro serves as a board member for the Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority (BFTDA) which oversees the Commonwealth’s ~$30 million investment each year into regional venture development organizations and venture capital funds to grow the Commonwealth’s innovation economy.
Shintaro is member of Activate.org’s Leadership Council to help scientists tackle global challenges in sustainability and climate change through fully supported fellowships. Activate Fellows and their 106 startups have raised over $1 billion since 2015.
Shintaro is a member of the Kauffman Fellows, a highly selective, global fellowship of 826 venture capital professionals and is the first in the Fellowship’s 27-year history to be from academic tech transfer. Kauffman Fellows collectively represent $290 billion in assets under management.
Shintaro received his BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and his MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.