Idea to Market: Developing a Business
5:30-6:30pm, reception at 5:00
Location: Engineering Lab 2, Room 119
Willard MacDonald will describe the company he started and its product, including how the idea for the product came about how him and his associates have structured the financial needs of the company.
Before founding Solmetric Corporation, Mr. MacDonald worked for 9 years as a senior design engineer for the test and measurement company Agilent Technologies (formerly Hewlett Packard). There he helped to develop a new line of precision electronic measurement devices, including optical test equipment and high bandwidth oscilloscopes. He holds 7 patents for new technologies in the test and measurement field. Mr. MacDonald received his MS in computer science and his BS in electrical engineering, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
