Shannon Bard

I am a scientist whisperer. I have advised over 80 ventures and growth companies with scientist-entrepreneur founders make impact with climate, social, and health innovations. I help them decrease time from deep science invention to adoption by society from average 30 years to 2-5 years through support of innovation commercialisation, technology-market matching, business development/sales.
My portfolio teams have won two X- Prizes for carbon sequestration $1M (Arca Climate), Earthshot Prize £1M (Takachar), Women in Cleantech $1M (Summit Nanotech) Spring Impact Challenge winners (Moment Energy, Open Ocean Robotics, Voxcell, Viridis, UVX, etc,)
• Coastal Carbon/Hum.AI : earth observations & AI for general intelligence of natural world, plus blue & green carbon credits) - engaged to secure multiple pilots with new clients, within 6 months demonstrated market demand and traction across several sectors resulting in closing successful $8M investment round
• Global Director of Innovation for international engineering companies launched new innovation program that netted over $1M/year net profit via passive income from licensing patented inventions and new sources of revenue
• Business development success as client manager for CN Railway increased revenue from one small project to over $1M/year within 12 months to earn Top 10 client status for national environmental consultancy.