Tom Hogan Joins InventionShare Team as Senior Vice President of Fund Architecture
Tom Hogan has joined InventionShare as Senior Vice President of Fund Architecture, effective January 15, 2020. This was announced by Greg Waite, CEO of InventionShare, at the Global Corporate Venture and Innovation Summit in Monterey, California.
“We are delighted to have Tom as a senior leader on the InventionShare team,” said Waite. “His background and track record as a highly accomplished senior financial and business executive will be extremely valuable as we implement our strategy to leverage platform technologies we’ve developed to date, such as Circuit Seed. InventionShare is seeking both technology owners interested in replacing their analog circuitry with vastly superior digital implementations from Circuit Seed, and funding partners to co-invest in and benefit from this breakthrough high impact platform.”
Tom’s career highlights include 27 years at MetLife where he held leadership roles as Chief Financial Officer of two major organizations and as a key contributor in several large-scale M&A transactions. His background also includes a business role as Chief Executive Officer of MetLife Resources, a $35 billion business focused on the retirement and financial planning needs of the not for profit marketplace.
InventionShare functions as a perpetual and exclusive ‘Breakthrough Invention Fund’ that creates and develops ‘Invention Companies’ rather than high risk ‘Operating Companies’. This approach dramatically accelerates the adoption of breakthrough technologies by augmenting the innovation pipeline of large global companies – for extraordinary financial outcomes and high social impact. We do this by attracting and representing credible senior inventors with a track record, through our ‘inventor friendly’ success-based model, and we support, amplify, protect and validate their seminal inventions with non-dilutive financial capital – in stark contrast to operating companies. The dramatic financial and social leverage achieved is through our deep and distinct intellectual and relationship capital, industry and IP expertise, intelligence tools, process, diligence and discipline.