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Joseph R Flicek
Intellectual Property Advisor
Mr. Flicek is a Managing Director of Amphion Innovations in their New York Office. Amphion's business is the formation, financing, management and development of life science and technology companies. He specializes in taking these new technologies and under-performing assets and leveraging and enhancing their intellectual property and business assets into profitable company building opportunities. Amphion Portfolio Companies are broad-based, proprietary, platform technologies in the areas of pharmacogenomics, nutriceuticals, diagnostics, medical products and related fields, leveraging advances in semiconductors, RFID technologies and life science IT technologies.
He currently serves on the boards of FireStar Software, Inc. and M2M Inc, who are Amphion partner companies. Mr. Flicek created and established the New Ventures group of the Science & Technology Ventures Office at Columbia University in 1996. Under his leadership Columbia participated in the formation of over 30 new University spin-outs, four of which are publicly traded. Mr. Flicek is an adjunct faculty member of Columbia University's Graduate Business School in Entrepreneurship and assists faculty and students in startup businesses through entrepreneurship programs.