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Jim
O’Connor
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Vice President and
General Manager of The Early Stage Accelerator |
Jim O’Connor is Vice President and General Manager of the
Early Stage Accelerator. In this role, Jim is responsible for driving
strategies for innovative commercialization of new technologies. Previous to
this role, Jim was Managing Director
and co-founder
of Motorola Ventures, the corporate venture capital
investment arm of Motorola, Inc.
This role includes actively
reviewing, investing, and managing the global minority equity opportunities
strategic to Motorola’s core and emerging businesses including communications
and embedded solutions. Such key areas of investment include
next generation optical
networking technologies, pervasive computing, semiconductor design automation,
advanced lithography and nanotechnology, wireless sensor networks, multi-media
applications and streaming media, enterprise security applications, JAVA-based
enabling technologies, biometrics, and Life Sciences.
He co-founded Motorola Ventures in September 1999 following a
year of service in the US
government as a White House Fellow assigned to Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin
and Larry Summers. During this time at the Treasury Department, he was
responsible for coordinating strategies on domestic financial policy, electronic
commerce and community development policy. Prior to this, Jim worked as a
Management Consultant with the global management consultancy A.T. Kearney out of
Chicago where he focused on strategic and operational issues with Fortune 100
companies. Jim currently serves as a Board Observer for the following
companies, PacketVideo (San Diego),
Centerpost (Chicago), Clarisay (Dallas), Molecular Imprints (Austin), First
International Digital (Chicago), TissueInformatics (Pittsburgh),
APTE (Chicago) and CodeToys (Finland). Jim received his BA and JD from
Georgetown University and his MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of
Management.
Jim is also active in the local
Chicago
community as Vice-Chair of
the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center, which is a national model for
public-private partnerships that are established to assist entrepreneurs. He is
also the founder of
Kellogg Corps, a non-profit entrepreneurial program at the Northwestern J.L.
Kellogg Graduate School of Management whose mission is to
bring management expertise to
non-profit organizations in developing countries.
Jim founded the Field Associates, the Field Museum’s young professional Board,
as well as the Lyric Opera Auxiliary Board, the Lyric Opera’s young professional
Board. Jim also serves on the Board for the Illinois Facilities Fund as well as
the Big Shoulders Board for the Archdiocese of Chicago’s inner-city school fund.
Jim lives in
Wilmette, Illinois with his
wife, Julie, and his twin sons. |
