Pearl Chin

Research Fellow, Foresight Nanotech Institute

Pearl Chin is a research fellow of the Foresight Nanotech Institute. She has experience in strategy and marketing consulting, management consulting, operations, sales and marketing, and customer service, in diverse industries from small to large companies. Prior to Foresight, she was a management consultant with Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath with the Chemicals, Engineered Materials and Packaged Goods group optimizing Supply Chain operations. Before that, she was an applications specialist and headed domestic customer support under Sales and Marketing for TA Instruments, Inc. when it was number one in customer support in its industry.She is a prolific writer on nanotechnology investing, business, management and social issues. Her articles appear in Nanotechnology Now and the Nanotechnology Law and Business Journal. She is actively sought out to speak about and be interviewed on these diverse nanotechnology related topics.

Dr. Chin also has extensive deep tech research expertise as a Guest Scientist with the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) Polymer Division's Electronic Materials Group under the US Department of Commerce. She has an MBA from Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management (JGSM), a Ph.D. in Materials Science from University of Delaware's Center for Composite Materials, and a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering from The Cooper Union in New York City. She is also Managing Director of Seraphima Ventures and is on the Board of Directors of Biophage Pharma, a Montreal biotech startup company. She is a native New Yorker and likes to travel extensively and is an active Community Board 3 member in Manhattan, New York.

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12.07 The Speculist, Fastforward Radio