Title: Chairman of the Board
Category: Senior Managing Professional
Education: B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Mr. Speser received a B.S. from the Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, OH and took graduate work in Business Administration from Canisius College, Buffalo, NY. He is a co-founder of the company and Chairman of the Board. Mr. Speser is a frequent lecturer on high technology marketing. His work on behalf of corporate customers involves venture capital and other deal-making negotiations. His successes have ranged from licensing smart card technology to VISA and other major corporations to putting together Phase III deals for SBIR firms like Polytronixs and UTD to funding university/industry centers such as the Health Care Devices and Instrumentation Institute of the State University of New York at Buffalo. For 18 years he also was the project manager for the National SBIR Conferences. Prior to co-founding Foresight, he was a Board Member and Senior Vice President Marketing at the W. Bergman Company. After participating in the build and sale of that company, he worked in turn around marketing for major banks, helping to rescue companies from pending bankruptcy in industries ranging from plastics manufacturing to spray cans for retail products, and real estate.