About Bo
Bio
Bo Fishback is vice president of entrepreneurship for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. His responsibilities include developing and advancing transformative programs that strengthen entrepreneurial engagement in the economy and help entrepreneurs succeed.
Fishback joined the Kauffman Foundation in 2006 as a director in the advancing innovation area, where he studied the country's best business accelerators and university-based commercialization programs. In 2007, he joined Kansas City, Mo.-based BioMed Valley Discoveries, a translational research and development organization affiliated with the Stowers Institute whose mission is to translate basic biomedical research into applications that improve human health.
Fishback has been involved in a range of entrepreneurial initiatives. He is a founding team member of Orbis Biosciences, a drug delivery and particle fabrication company whose core intellectual property was developed from research conducted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Fishback also is a co-founder of Lightspeed Genomics, a next-generation genome sequencing company that was spun out of a research program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition, Fishback developed the Equity Simulation Tool, OwnYourVenture.com, an educational tool aimed at helping people understand the impact of raising equity financing.
Beyond these ventures, he has worked with a variety of life sciences and high-tech startup companies in varying capacities. Currently, he is on the board of directors for Orbis Biosciences, LightSpeed Genomics, and Infegy, the developer of SocialRadar, a social media monitoring and Web analytics company.
Previously, he was a consultant with Puretech Ventures in Boston. Before that, he served as a director at IQHealth for Cerner Corporation in Kansas City where he led a team of application developers, designers, and product managers in the creation of Web-based health tools.
Fishback received his Bachelor of Science degree in biomedical engineering from Southern Methodist University and earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (www.Kauffman.org) works with partners to encourage entrepreneurship around the world. The Kauffman Foundation is working to further understand the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, to advance entrepreneurship education and training efforts, to promote entrepreneurship-friendly policies, and to better facilitate the commercialization of new technologies by entrepreneurs and others that have great promise for improving the economic welfare of the world.
The Foundation works with leading educators and researchers nationwide to create awareness of the powerful economic impact of entrepreneurship, to develop and disseminate proven programs that enhance entrepreneurial skills and abilities, and to improve the environment in which entrepreneurs start and grow businesses.