Vincent A. Alessi
Associate Director & Head of Strategic Information, Interoperability Institute
Mr. Alessi is an award-winning inventor and technology commercialization expert with over 13 years of hands-experience building disruptive businesses through leveraging new-to-world technical platforms. Educated at Oberlin college with visiting academic fellowships at Harvard Medical School and Rockefeller University, he has served in the Departments of Defense and Energy. Past private ventures include the Aquaro Diagnostics Inc, Covaron Advanced Materials Inc, and Science Bounty Systems. His private sector work has led him to win/receive the MIT SAE Innovation of the year, Forbes 30 under 30 (2016, Industry), Schusterman Foundation Fellowship, the Materials Connexion (Steelcase) Material of the year, Walmart’s global winner for ‘better living though innovation’, Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition, the Leigh Steinberg Foundation Brain Health Awareness Award, and others. He currently holds 17 patents, with 11 currently pending, principally within the diagnostics automation, predictive modeling, and advanced materials spaces. His current research focus is in multi-tiered computational modeling of physiological systems and the epigenetics of the Central Nervous System.