Tom Schryver

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Mr. Tom Schryver serves as Fund Advisor at BR Venture Fund. He served as Executive Director at RevIthaca Startup Works. He also serves as Executive Director at Cornell University. Tom is the Executive Director of Cornell's Center for Regional Economic Advancement (CREA) and is a Visiting Lecturer at the Johnson Graduate School of Management. CREA's programs include Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, the Southern Tier Startup Alliance, and support of Cornell's regional economic advancement efforts. Tom leads the Upstate NY I-Corps Node and is the lead instructor for Cornell Engineering's Commercialization Fellows program. He serves on the teaching team for eLab, Cornell's student business accelerator, and teaches entrepreneurship and business strategy at Cornell. He is an experienced entrepreneur having served as a startup founder and senior finance executive of high-growth companies. Previously, he was Director of Finance for the Triad Foundation, where his responsibilities included investing the Foundation's $250m portfolios to top-quartile returns. His board affiliations include the Cornell Agriculture and Food Technology Park and Tompkins County Area Development and as board vice-chair of the Business Incubator Association of New York State. Tom co-chairs the Southern Tier Regional Economic Development Council's Innovation Culture workgroup. Tom has an AB and MBA from Cornell, where he was a recipient of the MBA program's Albert J. Fried Fellowship for Leadership and Academic Excellence. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He is an Angel Investor.