Adam Sharkawy

Adam is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Material Impact. An accomplished executive healthcare and life sciences leader, Adam brings his track record of building and leading material-based centers of innovation within several large corporates and extensive experience on both sides of acquisition transactions to the Material Impact team. His worldwide leadership spans US, International, and Emerging markets.

Adam’s successful career as a seasoned executive leader and entrepreneur in the Healthcare and Life Sciences sector encompasses a diverse background across technologies (devices, bioactives, and biologics), therapy spaces (interventional, cardiovascular, surgery, orthopedics, etc) and different business environments (leading small entrepreneurial VC-funded to large Fortune 500 corporate).

Adam received his Ph.D. from Duke University where he researched methods of growing small blood vessels around long term implants. He also holds a Masters from Texas A&M University where he wrote a thesis on Chaos Theory and conducted research in energizing the innovation process and ideation in design. Adam remained affiliated to Duke University by serving on its Biomedical Engineering Advisory Board and to Texas A&M University by serving on its Bioengineering Advisory Board. He received his Bachelor’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the American University, Cairo and before that, he studied pre-medicine and Biology at the University of Delaware.