Mark DeSantis

Mark is an Executive Director and Senior Advisor in Cascadia Capital’s Robotics, Automation & Artificial Intelligence practice. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University School of Engineering and Heinz College, and frequent guest lecturer at Dartmouth and Princeton. He is also the CEO of Bloomfield Robotics, an AI-driven AgTech company. Mark is a serial technology entrepreneur and has extensive operational and transactional expertise. He was previously co-founder and CEO RoadBotics, a venture-backed AI platform used for infrastructure assessment. He was co-founder and Chairman of kWantix, a quant energy hedge fund; co-founder and CEO of kWantera, a GE Ventures-backed energy trading company; CEO of Think Through Learning, a venture-backed online tutoring company; and US Managing Director of ANGLE Technology, PLC, a UK-based venture capital firm and consultancy.

Earlier in his career, Mark was the Director of Government Relations for Texas Instruments and held policy positions as a Senior Policy Analyst in The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Administration of George H. W. Bush. He was also staff assistant to late U.S. Senator John Heinz and a management consultant with Booz Allen.

Mark holds a PhD in Public Policy from the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.