Tony Anast

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Biography

Mr. Tony Anast serves as Principal Strategy & Growth Consultant at Bighorn Ventures. Prior to forming Bighorn Ventures Tony was the Vice President of Corporate and Business Development at Ardesta LLC, a venture capital fund focused upon MEMS and Nanotechnology, where he invested in Translume and NeoPhotonics. While at Ardesta he was also the Vice President of Marketing & Business Development at Translume, an innovator in femto-second laser glass processing. Tony is an MBA graduate of Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration where he performed research assessing commercialization opportunities in the sensor network (today we'd call it Internet of Things) and nanotechnology markets. Tony has an undergraduate degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and performed masters level work in Electrical Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.