Stephen Empedocles

Stephen Empedocles is the founder and CEO of Clark Street Associates, an advisory firm specializing in securing non-dilutive government funding for technology companies. He holds a PhD in Physical Chemistry from MIT, where he studied under Nobel Laureate Moungi Bawendi, and has over 25 years of business development experience in semiconductors, energy, and nanotechnology. He holds more than 100 patents and was named one of the world's top 100 young innovators by MIT Technology Review for his work in commercial nanotechnology.