Greg Cipriano

Greg Cipriano has 40 years of experience in technology commercialization, strategic partnerships, and in the development and launching of new products into early markets. He is a hands-on engineer and serial entrepreneur who has founded, built, and exited three businesses. He has a proven track record in the successful development and commercialization of advanced high-tech products that have produced over $500M in new revenue.

Greg was most recently the VP Business Development & Marketing at Protonex, a military portable power systems provider, based on advanced fuel cell and power electronics technology. At Protonex, he developed and secured major DOD and DOE funding for power and energy development programs in the multi-million dollar range. He also helped build the company from 6 to 120 people, closed over $50M in early revenue, forged major strategic partnerships, and participated in an IPO on the London Stock Exchange.

Greg’s business and product development experience includes OEM and end user products for the energy, defense, communications, and healthcare markets. He was the founder of Affinity and HealthCom (both acquired), and the founder and President of Internexsys, a renewable energy project development and consulting firm. He has also held executive positions at California Microwave, Prime Computer, Instrumentation Labs, and PR Mallory Labs. He has a patent in early switched digital telecom equipment and patents pending in flow battery systems. He received a BSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and attended the MIT Sloan School of Management, Executive Education Program.