Bill Newman

Bill Newman is managing director at Northwest Technology Ventures, an Oregon seed fund focused on technology-based startups and spinouts from the research sector in both life sciences and technology, and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the OTRADI Bioscience Incubator. NTV’s seed funding has provided the leverage for the companies in NTV’s investment portfolio to raise a cumulative investment of over $200 million to date, advancing businesses through growth stages into manufacturing, sales, and profitability. Prior to NTV Bill spent over a decade as a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he directed a joint program with the Harvard Medical School in biomedical research. He left MIT to found a start-up based this work, and subsequently entered the venture industry to focus on early-stage investments. As EIR at OBI, he brings both the investor’s and entrepreneur’s perspective to advise entrepreneurs and early-stage businesses on business and funding strategy. He has served on numerous corporate boards within the NTV portfolio, as well as on various academic and civic boards including past chair of the Oregon Bioscience Association and as a founding member of Oregon’s Innovation Council, the state’s advisory board on knowledge and innovation based economic development.

Participating years: 2018, 2019