
Ross Haghighat
Chair
Ross Haghighat is a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist who specializes in transforming early-stage technologies into thriving companies in telecom, biopharma, cloud-based disease management, industrial chemicals, and military logistics. Ross has been a founder, cofounder, and board member of more than a dozen private and public technology companies in the U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Australia.
He has been a founder or co-founder of 12 start-ups, has served as chairman or vice chairman of three publicly listed companies, and has been a part of several M&A deals.
Ross earned a Master of Science in organometallic chemistry from Rutgers University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in advanced materials engineering from Rutgers University.