Calvin Goforth

Board Member at Akeso Biomedical

Dr. Goforth has extensive experience in start-up company development including intellectual property assessment, building strong development teams, raising private and government funding, and bringing products to market. Early in his career he held positions at NASA and Rocketdyne, served as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas, and founded Vector, Inc. (to build open-architecture PC-based controllers), which he later sold. He is the Founder and President of VIC, a technology venture development firm supporting the growth of promising early-stage technology companies.