Parker Brewster is Head of Programs at xFoundry. He brings more than eight years of venture capital experience across six-plus firms worldwide and has helped startups raise over $50M. Parker is also the author of From Shelf to Startup, a book on taking university innovation to market that has been adopted at multiple universities.

A biomedical engineer with a PhD in drug delivery and a former NIH preclinical innovation fellow, Parker has founded multiple medtech ventures as well as Biomedical Think-Tank, a venture studio that turns student innovation and university IP into commercial startups. He believes collegiate innovation and translation is one of the most undervalued asset classes in the economy, and he joined xFoundry to prove it.