Panelist - Rob Bettigole
Managing Partner, Elm Street Ventures

Rob is the founder and Managing Partner of Elm Street Ventures, a seed and early stage venture capital fund located in New Haven.  Established in 2006, Elm Street Ventures has eight portfolio companies, most of which were co-founded by the fund's general partners, and are located in the New Haven area. Rob sits on the boards of Elm Street Ventures' portfolio companies Retail Optimization, Inc., Samara Innovations, and ShareGrove, Inc., and is Elm Street’s board observer at BioRelix, Inc. and Affomix Corporation. Mr. Bettigole's early venture capital experience was gained as a partner at Rothschild Inc. and Investor AB, where his investments included Maxim Integrated Products, Gensia Pharmaceuticals, and Microgenics Corporation.  Subsequently, he helped found Surety Technologies, Inc., a spin out from Bellcore, and Alexion (NASDAQ: ALXN), with researchers from the Yale Medical School. Before founding Elm Street, Mr. Bettigole was president of Exodermic Bridge, Deck, Inc., which developed and marketed a product for the bridge and highway industry and which he sold to DS Brown Company in 2003. Mr. Bettigole has a BS in Engineering & Applied Science from Yale University and an MPPM from the Yale School of Management, where he is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence.  He is a Licensed Professional Engineer and holds several U.S. and foreign patents.