JOHN PYROVOLAKIS
CEO, Q-NET SECURITY
Pyrovolakis founded the Innovation Accelerator Foundation (IAF), whose mission is to promote our nation's economic competitiveness by promoting our nation's innovation. The IAF hosts the Academic Venture Exchange, where a set of elite research and development American universities pool some of their premier innovation assets. It also hosts iBridgeNetwork, which is our nation's largest university intellectual property marketplace. Prior to founding the Innovation Accelerator, Pyrovolakis started iKaptivate - a software-as-a-service workflow tool - to a private equity firm. Before that Pyrovolakis was a mergers and acquisitions banker at Jesup & Lamont, a boutique investment bank based in New York. Prior to that, Pyrovolakis founded CollegeScape - a software as a service online college admissions platform - which he sold to Thomson-Reuters, a multinational conglomerate that trades on the New York Stock Exchange (“TOC”).
Pyrovolakis is a member of the Board of Trustees of The American College of Greece and a member of the Board of Directors at Atreyu Trading, TruBeacon, QNET Cybersecurity and the New Jersey Innovation Institute. Pyrovolakis was a judge at the MIT, Columbia, and Stonybrook Entrepreneurship competitions, and a member of the “Committee of Visitors” to the National Science Foundation.