Malcolm R. Kahn named Vice President, Enterprise Development & Licensing, at Stevens Institute of Technology

Mr. Malcolm R. Kahn has been appointed Vice President for Enterprise Development & Licensing at Stevens Institute of Technology. In this capacity, Mr. Kahn will be responsible for the full cycle of business development at Stevens, from helping researchers and staff identify markets and technology applications, to the spawning, development and funding of Stevens’ Technogenesis® Companies. He will also be working on establishing a development fund and an Angel Network to help better finance Stevens’ technologies.

Kahn has been a serial entrepreneur of technology-based companies for more than 25 years. He has an extensive experience in the fields of analytical and scientific instrumentation, membrane filtration, lab-on-chip and technologies, and first-hand knowledge of the medical diagnostics, clean-tech, telecommunications, analytical instrument and biopharmaceutical markets.

“Malcolm Kahn’s CV is an object lesson in innovative entrepreneurship,” said Stevens’ President Harold J. Raveche. “His expertise and involvement with the Stevens community will benefit our creative faculty who seek to bring better ideas to fruition in marketplace applications; he will also serve, through example and advocacy, as an outstanding role model and mentor to our highly entrepreneurial undergraduates.”

Kahn began his career at Pfizer in their Medical Diagnostics Division and then at Millipore before moving into start-ups. His initial career path was in finance before becoming involved in marketing, and ultimately in general management. Kahn’s past companies include Kratos International plc, a mass-spectrometry, surface-analysis and liquid chromatography company, which he sold to Applied BioSystems (LC) and Shimadzu (MS & SA); Membrex, a membrane filtration company that he sold to Osmonics, which is now part of GE; and Sensicore, a lab-on-chip water-sensing technology company that he sold to GE.

He also sits on the boards of several start-up companies in the fields of Raman Spectroscopy, carbon nanotubes, sequencing using quantum-controlled femto-second lasers and mass spectrometers, and a predictive software company for analyzing water contamination. He also has successfully raised considerable venture capital funding for his companies, and he understands the full process of going from idea to delivered product.

Mr. Kahn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Finance from The Pennsylvania State University, and an MBA from Fordham University. He has historically served as the Chairman of the Analytical Instrument Association and was elected to a regional high school Board of Education where he served as Board President.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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