Entrepreneurs américains “mentors”: Matthew SILVER

Matthew Silver

Cambrian Innovation

Dr. Silver has eleven years of experience at the intersection of entrepreneurship, engineering design, and innovation strategy. As CEO of Cambrian Innovation since 2006, he has guided the firm through six years of growth, been director of several government-funded grants, and successfully executed corporate and investment partnerships with local and international firms.

Prior to co-founding Cambrian, Matt co-founded Intelligent Action Inc., an MIT spin-out providing strategic decision-making capabilities based on patent pending simulation algorithms that he developed during his Master’s work at MIT. He was previously a consultant to industry on early-stage innovation and a Staff Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Matt speaks widely on innovation strategy and entrepreneurship, with particular focus on capital intensive energy and water innovation, and in 2011 he testified before the United States Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee on the government’s role in early stage innovation.

He has published over 15 academic and conference publications on engineering design and innovation strategy and is co-inventor on six patent applications.Matt received a Doctorate in Engineering Systems and two Master’s in Astronautical Engineering and Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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