David A. Desjardins

Title: Director, Commercialization Practice

Category: Managing Professional

Education: B.S., Electrical Engineering

David is currently working in the Physical Sciences assessments department of Foresight Science and Technology. Current projects Mr. Desjardins has been involved in for Foresight include High Performance Computing, Advanced Network Intrusion Detection, ultra-violet (UV) laser technologies and Plasma Modeling Tools Development.

Areas of Mr. Desjardins market expertise includes Financial IT Infrastructure, Audio/Video/Data Conferencing, Semiconductor Development, System and Network Security, Electronic Patient Care Management, Clinical Research Organizations (CRO), Managed Care and Hospital Care and cost reductions.

Mr. Desjardins has been involved in several pre-IPO companies and Venture Capital Management firms and has experience with intellectual property assessments and market relevance research. Examples include ATM switch technologies with LightStream, Inc. and Cisco Systems; H.323 Ethernet Conferencing technologies with Intel Corporation, Cisco Systems, and VideoServer; ATM Silicon development for Fujitsu; ATM 2nd generation silicon development for Xerox Parc, first generation Network Silicon technologies for Agere and Lucent Technologies, along with several other new technology developments.

Mr. Desjardins completed his B.S. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts.