Research · Technology · Market
Breakthrough science needs a path to market.
I help researchers, founders and technical organizations translate promising science into products, partnerships and businesses that solve real problems.
The challenge
Potential is the starting point.
A technology can be novel, defensible and technically impressive—and still lack a clear customer, use case or route to adoption.
Commercialization requires disciplined choices about the problem being solved, the buyer, the operating environment and the evidence needed to move forward. It also requires understanding what customers must change to put a new technology to work.
I help teams connect those questions to a practical path: where to begin, what to test and which partners can help.
Where I contribute
Connecting possibility to market reality.
Market Definition
Identify promising use cases, customer segments and commercial entry points—and decide where an emerging technology has the strongest reason to succeed.
Product Strategy
Translate technical capabilities into a product concept, a clear value proposition and a development roadmap grounded in customer needs.
Customer Discovery
Test assumptions with operators, executives, technical buyers and prospective design partners to understand demand, constraints and purchasing decisions.
Pilots and Partnerships
Shape credible demonstrations with clear success criteria and identify the organizations needed to validate, deliver and scale.
Commercial Narrative
Explain complex technology clearly to customers, partners, investors and nontechnical decision-makers, connecting the science to the value it creates.
Adoption Strategy
Address the operational, organizational and human factors that determine whether an innovation can move from a successful demonstration into everyday use.
A practical bridge
From the laboratory to the operating environment.
Researchers understand what is technically possible. Customers understand what must work reliably in practice. Commercialization brings those perspectives together.
My experience includes research and industry collaboration at the Colorado School of Mines, product and innovation roles with Anglo American and Hexagon, commercialization advisory work in synthetic biology, and co-founding NOMAD Fabrication.
The goal is a clearer next decision, supported by evidence and grounded in the realities of operations, people, time and capital.
How we begin
Start with the next decision.
Which customer should we pursue? What should the first product do? What would a useful pilot prove?
An engagement can focus on a specific question or connect several parts of the commercialization process. We begin with the technology, the evidence already available and the decision your team needs to make.
From there, we define the work needed to test assumptions, reduce uncertainty and move forward.
Focused Assessment
Review the technology, customer assumptions and available evidence. Identify the strongest entry point, the gaps and the next decision.
Defined Project
Build a customer discovery plan, product roadmap or pilot brief. Agree on the scope, deliverables and milestones before work begins.
Ongoing Advisory
Work alongside your team as customer conversations, partnerships and product decisions develop. Revisit priorities as evidence changes.
Start a conversation
What are you ready to bring to market?
A research breakthrough, an emerging technology or a product looking for its first customers.
Tell me what you are developing, what you have learned so far and where you need a clearer path forward.
Discuss your technology