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Wasiq Bokhari |
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Wasiq Bokhari
Managing Partner
Cleantech Circle
| Wasiq has worked with technology startup and Fortune 500 companies on the adoption and commercialization of materials and nanotechnology with applications in energy, IT and medicine. Wasiq also works with entrepreneurs, early-stage startups and multiple venture funds in to help emerging nanotechnologies cross the “valley of death”. He brings extensive entrepreneurial, operational and (equity and debt) financing experience to his activities in cleantech. His interests include energy generation, water and emerging fuels technologies.
Recently, he was the CEO of Bioident Technologies, a provider of medical and environmental diagnostic solutions based on company’s proprietary printed semi-conductor technologies. The company products were recognized as the semiconductor technology innovation of 2007 by the Wall Street Journal. Prior to that, he was the co-founder and Managing Partner of Quantum Insight, a business consulting and investment firm. He was part of a small team that started and built a nanomaterials focused business unit of Chevron. He has worked with Hitachi as a strategy and venture consultant for identifying new companies and technologies for investment, partnerships and acquisitions. Previously, Wasiq was part of the founding team and Senior Vice President of Products of Clickmarks, an enterprise infrastructure software company, subsequently acquired by Semotus Solutions.
He received his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked in the group headed by Nobel laureate Jerome Friedman. He was part of the team that discovered a fundamental particle called the top quark at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in 1995, one of the most prominent physics results of the decade. He is an author of more than 50 scientific and technical publications, and is cited as an inventor on 8 US patents, granted and applied.
He has co-authored a widely recognized report on the potential of nanotechnology for the California Commission for Science and Technology (CCST). He was a co-founder and Steering Committee Chair of the MIT Stanford UC Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum. Wasiq works with PCAST (Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology) on issues related to energy. |
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