Steven Kubisen, Ph.D.

Technology Advisor

Dr. Kubisen is an accomplished inventor, serial entrepreneur, corporate executive, and university technology commercialization leader with a distinguished career spanning industrial research, corporate management, and innovation-driven economic development. His professional experience includes senior research, research management, and general management roles at major multinational corporations, including Union Carbide, Akzo, General Electric, and Alcoa, where he led the development and commercialization of advanced technologies across multiple industrial sectors.

Dr. Kubisen has founded two successful companies and has served on numerous corporate and advisory boards, providing strategic guidance on innovation management, startup formation, and technology-driven growth. His career-long focus on transitioning early-stage technologies to market led him to senior leadership roles in university technology commercialization, including positions at Utah State University and Johns Hopkins University. In these roles, he built and scaled startup-centric commercialization programs that elevated each institution to top-tier national rankings in technology transfer performance.

He later served as Managing Director of the Office of Technology Commercialization at The George Washington University, where he further advanced startup formation, industry partnerships, and intellectual property commercialization. Across his academic leadership roles, Dr. Kubisen has helped found more than 35 university-based startup ventures, facilitated the commercialization of over 300 new products, and driven the successful translation of federally and privately funded research into market-ready solutions.

Dr. Kubisen is a named inventor on five issued and four pending U.S. patents and is a 2015 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, recognizing his sustained contributions to innovation, invention, and technology commercialization. His combination of corporate, entrepreneurial, and academic commercialization leadership provides critical expertise in transitioning complex technologies—particularly those originating in government and university research environments—into impactful, deployable products and services.