Christian Bailey is founder and President at the Center for Technology Advancement which enables the R&D 100 to get disproportionate value by sourcing, advancing, and validating university innovation. He saw a need for CTA based on 15 years of entrepreneurial, operating and investment experience with science and technology companies. Christian moved to the US at the age of 23 as the founder and CEO of Akaru, one of the first Software as a Service companies, subsequently acquired by NewChannel. After that, Christian identified an opportunity to apply advanced technologies to meet DOD and Intelligence Community requirements in Information Operations, co-founding and building a defense contractor from inception to over $120M backlog in contract revenue within two years before exiting through the sale of the business. In 2008, became a Fellow at MIT where he studied molecular biology and materials science. At the same time Christian began investing in spinouts from MIT and Harvard through incTANK Ventures, a vehicle for its partners’ own funds. He served as interim CEO for one of those investments, Ligon Discovery, where he led strategic deals with Bayer and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Christian holds a BA and MA in Economics and Management from the University of Oxford.
