Joe is MTI’s Director of Business Development and leads the organization’s targeted efforts to expand MTI’s funding opportunities for technology development with early and late-stage ventures. Joe has been with MTI since 2000 and served as the Director of the Business Ventures Group. He is well-connected in Maine’s entrepreneurial community, and serves on the Blackstone Accelerates Growth leadership team.

Joe has been involved with small business throughout his life, including ownership in specialty foods and retail service. He has formal and practical training in immunology, bioassays, product development and business leadership. During 10 years at IDEXX Laboratories in Westbrook, Maine, he worked as an assay development project leader in R&D, a supervisor of global technical support and managed a multi-million dollar line of tests and equipment. He has had primary responsibility for product-line strategy, product launch, customer satisfaction and achievement of revenue goals.

Joe initially studied engineering at the University of Maine and graduated with an undergraduate degree in Biology from the University of Southern Maine. He holds an MBA from Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, NH and serves on various business boards and committees.