Executive Profile

Richard A. Bendis Chief Executive Officer and President, Biohealth Innovation

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Background

Mr. Richard A. Bendis,Rich serves as Chief Executive Officer and President of Biohealth Innovation. Mr. Bendis serves as an Investment Manager at NEST-TN, L.L.C. He is Founder and Chief Executive Offcier at Innovation America. Mr. Bendis serves as a Manager at Relevance Capital. He is a successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, venture capitalist, investment banker, innovation, and technology based economic development leader and international speaker. Mr. Bendis ... founded the Bendis Investment Group LLC. He has over 28 years of investment experience. Mr. Bendis has a long and distinguished career as an entrepreneur, consultant, corporate executive, venture capitalist, investment banker, innovation and technology based economic development leader, international speaker, and consultant in the technology, healthcare and innovation development industries. Currently, he manages his own angel investment fund. Mr. Bendis also founded and manages the Bendis Investment Group LLC. Previously, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer at True Product ID, Inc., from March 2006 to August 17, 2007. Mr. Bendis served as Secretary and Principal Financial Officer at True Product ID, Inc. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer at Innovation Philadelphia (IP) since January 2001. Prior to his appointment as Innovation Philadelphia's first President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Bendis for the past twenty-five years was Chairman, President, or Chief Executive Officer of both public and private enterprises. He successfully leveraged a career in the private sector with companies including Quaker Oats, Polaroid, Texas Instruments, Marion Laboratories and Kimberly Services and in the venture capital industry to establish his own successful venture capital firm, RAB Ventures, which made 15 investments in early-stage technology and healthcare companies. Mr. Bendis also successfully built an Inc. 500 healthcare software company, Continental Healthcare Systems, Inc., which he took public on the NASDAQ and later sold to an international conglomerate. Previously, he founded and served as President and Chief Executive Officer at Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC) and Global Technology Enterprise Company LLC. Mr. Bendis founded and managed R.A.B. Ventures. He founded and served as Managing Director of Management Resources of America. He served as the Chairman of the Board of True Product ID, Inc. from March 2007 to August 17, 2007. Mr. Bendis serves as Director of Mid-Atlantic Capital Alliance and Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation. He serves as a Trustee of State Science & Technology Institute. He has been a Director of University City Science Center since June 2010. Mr. Bendis serves as a Member of the board of directors of Innovation Philadelphia Inc. He serves as Member Of Advisory Board at The Greater Philadelphia Senior Executive Group. Mr. Bendis served as a Director of PDG Environmental Inc., from 1986 to February 2010. He served as Director of True Product ID, Inc. from November 13, 2006 to August 17, 2007. He served as a Member of Advisory Board of Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation. Mr. Bendis serves or has served as a member of the following international, national and regional organizations including: the Council on Competitiveness, Eisenhower Fellowships Nominating Committee, founding member and Board Member of the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds (NASVF), Science Parks and Innovation Center Expert Group (SPICE), founding member and Board Member of State Science & Technology Institute, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Governor's Appointee, member of the executive committee for the National Governors' Association and Science and Technology Council, The New York Academy of Sciences, National Business Incubation Association, executive committee Greater Philadelphia Global Partners, executive marketing and international committee for Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, UNESCO Philadelphia Executive Committee, World Trade Centers of Greater Philadelphia, Temple University Center for International Business and Research (CIBER), and the Drexel University Laurence A. Baiada Center for Entrepreneurship in Technology. Mr. Bendis is an international business consultant and featured speaker to the United Nations, NATO, the European Commission, MITI, and global technology-based enterprises and countries. He is editor and publisher of innovationDaily.

Corporate Headquarters -- --, -- -- United States Phone: -- Fax: -- Board Members Memberships Director Mid-Atlantic Capital Alliance Director Innovation Philadelphia Inc. Trustee State Science & Technology Institute 1986-2010 Former Director, Chairman of Audit Committee, Member of Nominating Committee and Member of Compensation Committee PDG Environmental Inc. 2006-2007 Former Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President True Product ID, Inc. 2010-Present Director University City Science Center Education There is no Education data available. Other Affiliations Mid-Atlantic Capital Alliance PDG Environmental Inc. University City Science Center True Product ID, Inc. Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation Innovation Philadelphia Inc. The Greater Philadelphia Senior Executive Group State Science & Technology Institute Nest-TN, L.L.C. Relevance Capital

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