Omar Hakim, General Manager
Omar Hakim is an entrepreneur and management consultant with over 20 years of experience. He is currently the General Manager of the Research Valley Innovation Center (RVIC), a technology based incubator providing consulting services and fundraising assistance to over 25 startups in the life sciences, clean energy, information technology and advanced materials domains. Mr. Hakim also founded the Aggie Angel Network, one of the fastest growing angel networks in the US.
Prior to leading the RVIC, Mr. Hakim was co-founder of IP Knowledge Ventures, Inc. (doing business as IP Tactics), an intellectual property monetization and professional services firm. Mr. Hakim identified promising IP acquisition, performed IP valuation analysis and presented recommendations to investment groups and hedge funds.
Prior to co-founding IP Tactics, Mr. Hakim was with Accenture for ten years. Mr. Hakim founded their Asia region network consulting practice which supported all network engagements across 15 countries. Mr. Hakim was responsible for regional account planning, alliance management, sales support, proposal development, project reviews, quality oversight, opportunity pipeline tracking, relationship management and communications with senior client and Accenture executives. He grew his consulting practice's revenues from zero to 5% of the entire regional market unit's annual revenues in two years.
Prior to relocating to Asia, Mr. Hakim worked in Accenture's New Business Models group, providing consulting services to startups. Mr. Hakim was also liaison to Cisco Systems, where his responsibilities included identifying joint venture opportunities, performing due diligence and reporting investment recommendations to Accenture Technology Ventures (a $1 billion VC fund). Mr. Hakim also managed one of Accenture's five patent portfolios which was made up of over 500 awarded and pending patents.
Mr. Hakim earned his BS in Applied Mathematics and his MS in Technology Commercialization. He has been awarded three patents and has numerous patents pending.
RVIC Advisory Council
| George C. Y. Chiou, PhD | Professor and Director of the Institute of Ocular Pharmacology, Health Science Center |
| Brett R. Cornwell | Dir, Commercialization Services, Office of Technology Commercialization |
| John C. Criscione, PhD | Asst Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M Unviersity |
| Steven D. Harper | President and CEO, Brazos Valley Bank |
| James R. Joyce, PhD | Asst Director of Research, TAMUS Health Science Center |
| Marcus J. Lockard | CEO, Lockard & White |
| Todd McDaniel | President and CEO, The Research Valley Partnership |
| James E. Moore, Jr. PhD | Professor, Biomedical Engineering |
| Jim Pillans | Director, Brazos Valley Small Business Development Center |
| Gary F. Sera | Director, Texas Engineering Extension Service |
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