Experience

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  Tom Furst

  • Silicon Valley

  • Speaker on Innovation, Consultant, Board Director, EIR, Interim CFO, Entrepre...

    • 2014 - Present
    • Silicon Valley

    Independent Speaker, Advisor, Director:As a speaker and trainer:- Partner in The Practice of Innovation - Keynote Speaker Through advisory and consulting services:- To Universities: Executive-in-Residence at MIT where he supported the shaping and delivery ...

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  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Cambridge; Mass.

  • Executive In Residence

    • Jul 2016 - Feb 2017
    • Cambridge; Mass.

    Assisted MIT Media Lab & MIT Connection Science in their interface with industry by through the delivery of innovation workshops and seminars to support translational innovation. The overall goal was to better commercialize innovations from MIT's research Laboratories.

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  SRI International

  • Silicon Valley

  • Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

    • 1996 - 2014
    • Silicon Valley

    Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer SRI International 1996 to February 2014• Driving force in the success of a globally recognized company creating high-impact innovation• Long-term success in both CFO and COO-like institutional leadership of a diverse, complex, and geographically d...

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  Booz Allen Hamilton

  • Tysons Corner, Va.

  • Senior Financial Executive

    • 1991 - 1996
    • Tysons Corner, Va.

    The Senior Financial Executive for Booz Allen's World Wide Technology Business (WTB), which included their Federal Government contracting operations

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  PRC (now Northrup Grumman)

  • Tysons Corner, Virginia

  • Vice President, Financial Operations

    • 1977 - 1991
    • Tysons Corner, Virginia

    Progression from division Director of Contracts, through division and group CFO positions, to corporate VP for Financial Operations; with a major professional services contractor to the Federal Government. $500M in annual sales. PRC was subsequently acquired by Northrop Grumman

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  HRB Singer (Now Raytheon)

  • State College, Pennsylvania

  • Line P&L Manager

    • 1968 - 1977
    • State College, Pennsylvania

    Financial Planning, Contracts Administration, Line P&L Manager. HRB Singer provided studies, and hardware and software intelligence systems and solutions, to the Federal Government, and was subsequently acquired by Raytheon

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  RCA (Now GE)

  • Moorestown, New Jersey

  • Inventory Control Manager

    • 1965 - 1968
    • Moorestown, New Jersey

    Corporate finance staff intern; Inventory and material management