Biographies

Greg Horowitt

Greg is a co-founder and Managing Director of T2 Venture Capital, a seed stage venture fund focused on the commercialization of intellectual property from government funded agency programs, major research institutes, and universities around the world.  In this role, he has been active in the IP sourcing, founding, business structuring and executive management of their portfolio companies, including his role as the founding CEO of STAR (Stonybrook Technology and Applied Research), a biomedical discovery and development company, and an advisory board member to Neurovigil and Biological Dynamics, and has led T2’s investment in Somark Innovations, Biomatrica, and Auto Point Software (sold to Service Repair Solutions, SRS).  Greg’s past accomplishments have been as an executive with a Berkshire Hathaway company, Entrepreneur in Residence at a leading Silicon Valley venture firm, and CEO of a venture backed software company. 

In addition, Mr. Horowitt is the co-founder of the Venture Corps, a training, venture development, and capital formation program for emerging and developing innovation regions. 

Greg is also the co-founder and a Director of Global CONNECT, a think tank based at the University of California, San Diego, focusing on the development and growth of successful innovation based clusters worldwide.   Under his leadership, Global CONNECT has grown to encompass a network which includes more than 20 countries and 40 programs internationally focused on accelerating global technology commercialization.  Mr. Horowitt’s views and vision on global innovation systems and the mechanisms by which they scale has led to extensive public speaking engagements and media references, including the New York Times, Forbes, New Scientist, and Entrepreneur Magazine. 

Greg was formerly the Director of CONNECT, an organization which is generally credited with San Diego’s success as a technology leader and which helped launch over 300 companies that raised over $600 million in early-stage funding and achieved over $12 billion in market capitalization. Greg has personally been involved with and/or mentored more than 200 companies.  

Prior to CONNECT, Greg served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for SK Global, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm.  His career in technology started when he was President and CEO of the Praetorian Group, a venture-backed enterprise software company providing e-business solutions to law enforcement and public safety agencies across the country. For nearly 20 years before that, he was with a Berkshire Hathaway company, Flying Cross by Fechheimer Uniforms, where he finished his tenure as Vice President of Regional Sales

Greg currently serves as a board member of the CONNECT Foundation and UC San Diego Entrepreneurship Challenge.  He also serves as a mentor for the University of California’s UC Discovery Fellows Program; Senior Advisor to Larta Institute; reviewer for the Kauffman Foundation’s e-Venturing Program;  Advisory Board Member  of the San Diego Science Festival, Industry Advisory Board member, Life Sciences Information Technology Global Institute; past Chairman, Project Inform; and international judge for the PriceWaterhouseCoopers New Zealand HiTech Awards. 

Greg holds a degree in Biochemistry and minors in Economics and Music Performance from the University of California, San Diego, and received a prestigious President’s Undergraduate Fellowship Award for his work studying the links between nutrition and breast cancer.