Asheen Phansey

Current

Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College
President at Quaking Aspen, LLC
Cornell Engineering Liaison for Boston at Cornell University

VP, Outreach at Net Impact Boston

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Past

MBA Candidate at Babson College
Technology Commercialization Consultant at Aurora Flight Sciences
Development Engineer at ETEX Corp.

Manufacturing Supervisor at Cadence Pharma, Inc.
Associate Software Engineer, Bioinformatics at BG Medicine, Inc. (f/k/a Beyond Genomics, Inc.)
Research Assistant, Proteomics at Beyond Genomics, Inc.

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Education

Babson College - Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business
Biomimicry Institute
Cornell University

Lynnfield High

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Asheen Phansey’s Summary

Objective:
Helping companies to create and implement business models and best practices for financially-, socially-, ecologically-sustainable ("green") business.

Interests:
Sustainable innovation such as biomimicry, closed-loop manufacturing, life-cycle assessment, green supply chain management, and industrial ecology.

About me:
Ambitious professional with deep expertise in the green business community, who excels at leadership, communication and creativity. Experienced in R&D, operations, tech transfer/scale-up, and entrepreneurship in high-tech industries.

Asheen Phansey’s Specialties:

Biomimicry (Nature-inspired innovation)
Sustainable supply-chain management
Green marketing (B2B, B2C)
Life-cycle assessment (LCA)
Sustainable operations and business growth

Asheen Phansey’s Experience

Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship

Babson College

(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

November 2008 — Present (9 months)

Teaching an MBA course called "Sustainable Entrepreneurship Inspired by Nature" in Spring 2009.
President

Quaking Aspen, LLC

(Management Consulting industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Providing green business consulting services -- Nature-inspired innovation, green operations and supply chain management, green marketing, sustainable business model design -- to corporate and nonprofit clients.
Cornell Engineering Liaison for Boston

Cornell University

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

Primary contact person for alumni, representing their interests to Cornell Engineering Alumni Association (CEAA), Engineering alumni office and the College of Engineering.
VP, Outreach

Net Impact Boston

(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

Leader for Net Impact Boston, the professional organization dedicated to socially- and environmentally-responsible business.
* Vice President, 2007
* President, 2008
* Vice President, 2009
MBA Candidate

Babson College

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

August 2007 — May 2008 (10 months)

The focuses of my MBA are Technology Entrepreneurship, High-Tech Management, and Sustainable Business. May 2008 (expected)
Technology Commercialization Consultant

Aurora Flight Sciences

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

September 2007 — April 2008 (8 months)

Consultant responsible for developing commercialization strategy for Aurora Flight Sciences, a designer of autonomous aircraft technologies for research and defense applications.
Development Engineer

ETEX Corp.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Biotechnology industry)

October 2005 — August 2007 (1 year 11 months)

Development engineering for manufacture of Bone Substitute Material and other synthetic biomaterials. Led process development and product feasibility teams for the commercialization of new products.
Manufacturing Supervisor

Cadence Pharma, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Biotechnology industry)

November 2004 — October 2005 (1 year)

Second f/t employee of a start-up specializing in sterile contract manufacturing for drugs in clinical trials. Helped build out GMP facility; wrote and performed validations and SOP's; hired, trained and supervised manufacturing technicians.
Associate Software Engineer, Bioinformatics

BG Medicine, Inc. (f/k/a Beyond Genomics, Inc.)

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Biotechnology industry)

April 2003 — June 2004 (1 year 3 months)

Bioinformatics programming to identify peptide and protein biomarkers for cancer, Alzheimers, diabetes and drug vehicle studies. Designed novel algorithms for the analysis of mass spectrometry data.
Research Assistant, Proteomics

Beyond Genomics, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Biotechnology industry)

September 2002 — April 2003 (8 months)

Protein purification by HPLC; Western blots and 2-D SDS-PAGE; enzymatic digestions.

Asheen Phansey’s Education

Babson College - Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business

MBA , summa cum laude; Technology Entrepreneurship concentration , 2005 — 2008

Activities and Societies:

Evening Student Advisory Council, Babson Energy & Environmental Club
Biomimicry Institute

Biologist at the Design Table , 2007 — 2007
Cornell University

BS , Chemical Engineering , 1998 — 2002

Activities and Societies:

Big Red Marching Band
Lynnfield High