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Boostphase: Helping you precisely adjust the launch and acceleration of your project to maximize your chances of success.
Our services are based on decades of experience with technology, entrepreneurship, and innovation management.
Stephen Fleming
At various times, Stephen Fleming has been paid to be an optical physicist, laser fabricator, software developer, field engineer, product manager, corporate trainer, marketing executive, salesman, general manager, entrepreneur, author, venture capitalist, board member, investment banker, consultant, angel investor, public speaker, adjunct university faculty, commercial landlord, senior academic leader, and economic developer.
As a venture capitalist, Stephen has over 15 years of private equity experience at the General Partner level. Prior to his venture capital career, he spent 15 years in operations roles at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Nortel Networks, and LICOM (a venture-funded startup).
An Atlanta native and summa cum laude graduate of Georgia Tech, Stephen returned to his alma mater in mid-2005 where he served through 2015 as Vice President, Economic Development and Technology Ventures, Executive Director of the Enterprise Innovation Institute at Georgia Tech, and Director of the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC). At Georgia Tech, he was one of the two initial principal investigators funded by the National Science Foundation to establish the I-Corps program. He moved to Tucson in 2017 to create a new role as Vice President, Strategic Business Initiatives, at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Stephen is active in the “alternative space” industry; he is an investor in ten private aerospace companies and is a founding member of the Space Angels Network. Mr. Fleming also served on the boards of the Technology Association of Georgia and of Culture Connect, a not-for-profit fostering cultural fluency between immigrants and the community at large. He is a former board member of the Spiritual Living Center of Atlanta, and of Tech High School, a charter high school that emphasized science, math, and technology in urban Atlanta. He is a member of the Leadership Atlanta Class of 2014.
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