Lita Nelsen
Advisor
Lita is an advisor to the BrightEdge Fund and former Director of the Technology Licensing Office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she had been since 1986.
The office she led manages over 500 new inventions per year from M.I.T., the Whitehead Institute, and Lincoln Laboratory. Typically, they negotiate over 100 licenses, and start up over 20 new companies per year.
Prior to joining the M.I.T. Technology Licensing Office, Ms. Nelsen spent 20 years in industry, primarily in the fields of membrane separations, medical devices, and biotechnology, at such companies as Amicon, Millipore, Arthur D. Little, Inc., and Applied Biotechnology.