Richard Kouri

Dr. Richard E. Kouri is presently a Principal, CIMSLogic, Inc. He is an Adjunct Professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Biotechnology and Genetics), and the College of Engineering (Department of Biomedical Engineering). He is the recently retired Professor and Executive Director of the BioSciences Management Program, Jenkins Graduate School of Management, Poole College of Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. He is presently on the Board of Directors, Institute for In Vitro Sciences, and on the Board of Advisors, MedAditus. Dr. Kouri has helped co-found eleven start-up companies all in the biotechnology space; with three going on to their IPO and three being acquired. He has helped raise over $221M in private capital for these companies and has written and has been awarded over $24M in research funds including $4.5M in Small Business Innovation Research grants. The value of the six companies that have had exits to date totaled $775M. Dr. Kouri is an author of 104 publications, 62 abstracts, 6 patents and 4 books.

Area(s) of Expertise

• Entrepreneurship, Big Data Analytics, Market Landscaping, Technology Landscaping, Life and Health Sciences

Publications

• Building partnerships between academia and biosciences companies
  Biopharm International, 23(5), 54–59.
  By: V. Turula, N. Malkar & R. Kouri