Speaker:  Rick Williams, MBA

Please register in advance for this seminar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Auxiliary material such as slides and access to the recording available maybe available after the seminar to people who have registered.

Please join Boston ENET with Rick Williams to learn how to build a Board of Directors (BOD) for your startup! Building a BOD is crucial for your startup because a high-value board acts as a critical resource, coach, strategic advisor, risk manager, and center of governance that makes your startup more profitable and valuable to investors. It helps transform a startup from a chaotic endeavor into a structured, sustainable business by providing expert guidance on strategy, fundraising, and navigating high-stakes decisions.

Rick is a seasoned board chair and advisor to tech companies, brings extensive experience in transforming boards into “value accelerators”. He speaks about:

• Creating a “High Value” Board: Moving beyond a ceremonial, compliant board to one that actively contributes to company success.
• Strategic Composition: Balancing expertise and diverse perspectives to help founders navigate growth challenges.
• Navigating Critical Decisions: Using the board to handle crises, funding rounds, and executive transitions.

Speaker Bio:

Rick Williams

Rick Williams is an experienced technology company board of directors’ member and board chair. He has chaired the board of a medical device company, Point Care Technology, and a bank/VC firm, Growth Capital Corp. Rick currently is on the board of Amorphex Therapeutics, Career Town, and the Private Directors Association (PDA). Williams is a company founder and CEO and was a management consultant advising clients in a wide variety of industries. He is an internationally published thought leader on the board of directors as a value accelerator for the company. His book, Create the Future, is a leadership guidebook for being more creative and making difficult decisions for your company and yourself when you must get it right. Rick hosts the Create the Future with Rick Williams Podcast with guests sharing stories about making difficult decisions.

Rick is past President of the Harvard Business School Association of Boston. He was a management consultant with the global consulting firm Arthur D. Little, Inc. Rick founded and ran an award-winning real estate investment and development company. He is a physics graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Tufts University – School of Engineering

Dinner begins at 6:00 PM

Location and Zoom link will be provided after registration

Panel Presentation:

• How to leverage your academic work into an industry career
• Best practices for interviewing
• Tips for best salary negotiation

Hosted by Dr. Karen A. Panetta, Dean of Graduate Education for the School of Engineering. The workshop will have a panel of Tufts alumni speakers from industry: Chiamaka Chima, E14, EG16, Denise Griffin, E91, and Tyler Morris, EG21, with Amory Wakefield, Assistant Director of Career Services. The discussion will be moderated by Kevin Oye, Director of Tufts Gordon Institute.

Register for Engineering Career in Industry.

Boston Reliability and SMTA and iMAPS

Location: Kostas Research Institute (KRI), Northeastern University Innovation Campus, 141 South Bedford Street, Burlington, MA 01803

Speaker:  Prof Ahmed A. Busnaina

Registration: 

Advance registration is required for us to plan.

5:00PM doors open and informal networking begins, 5:30PM pizza, salad, and beverages arrive, 6:00PM presentation, 7:00PM tour, finishing at about 7:30PM

 A new high-throughput additive manufacturing of nano and microelectronics utilizes direct assembly of nanoscale particles onto interposers, wafers, or boards. The technology enables the printing of inorganic conductors, semiconductors and dielectrics. It has been demonstrated for printing passive and active components including logic gates at the nano and microscale. Transistors with an on/off ratio greater than 10⁶ have been demonstrated. This technology enables the fabrication of nanoelectronics and electronic components while reducing the cost by 10 to 100 times compared to conventional fabrication and can print 1000 times faster than ink-jet-based printing. Results show high-throughput printing of interconnects and circuit components at a scale equal to or less than 2 microns. Fully additively manufactured capacitors printed on silicon, sapphire, and polymer substrates will be presented. The results will show printed capacitors ranging down to 20 x 20 µm with capacitance of femto farads to nano farads. The results will also show additively printed MOSFET and logic gates such as NAND with high on/off ratios. A fully automated printing platform (a Fab-in-a-Box) was designed and built for printing microelectronics with minimum-sized features down to 300 nm for several advanced packaging applications and will be presented.

Speaker Bio:

Ahmed A. Busnaina, Ph.D., is the founding Director of the National Science Foundation’s Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing since 2004 and the NSF Center for Microcontamination Control at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, since 2002.  He is also the founder and CTO of Nano OPS, Inc. since 2017. Prior to joining Northeastern University, he was a professor and a director of the Particulate Control Lab at Clarkson University from 1984-2000. Dr. Busnaina is internationally recognized for his work on semiconductor fabrication with an emphasis on yield. He also developed nano and microscale additive manufacturing for making interconnects, passive and active electronic components, LEDs, and sensors. He authored more than 600 papers in journals, proceedings, and conferences. He has 25 granted and more than 45 pending patents. He was awarded the 2020 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) William T. Ennor Manufacturing Technology Award and Medal. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and a Fulbright Senior Scholar. He is an editor of the Journal of Microelectronic Engineering. He also serves on many advisory boards, including Samsung Electronics, the Journal of Electronic Materials Letters, the Journal of Nanomaterials, and the Journal of Nanomanufacturing.

Directions: Kostas Research Institute (KRI), Northeastern University Innovation Campus, 141 South Bedford Street, Burlington, MA 01803