Full Name
Nick Rancis
Job Title
Senior Manager of Transformational Innovation
Company
National Grid Partners
Speaker Bio
Nick Rancis’ experience spans numerous roles, including CTO, Founder, and corporate innovation executive specializing in venture creation, product development, manufacturing, and corporate growth within the water and energy sectors. Leveraging his entrepreneurial experiences and commercialization in new, emerging, and mature markets, Nick is the Senior Manager of Transformational Innovation at National Grid Partners, the innovation and CVC arm of National Grid, focusing on transformative innovation technologies and business models for tomorrow’s energy infrastructure.
Nick was previously the Director of Commercial Operations at Ginkgo Bioworks, a gates-funded venture leveraging genetic engineering with industrial applications to address critical problems in water remediation with synthetic biology. Prior to this, Nick was a Program Director at Fraunhofer, leading external and internal innovation of various technologies in partnership with Fortune 100 Corporations. Under Nick’s direction, specific commercialization areas include water treatment technologies, advanced materials/coatings, next-generation sensing/diagnostics and renewable energy. Nick recently re-joined Fraunhofer as a Board of Director member.
Before joining the Fraunhofer Team, Nick served as Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer at venture-funded Clear Comfort Water, leading product strategy, manufacturing, technical sales, and applied R&D. Clear Comfort Water manufactures industrial-grade advanced oxidation systems designed for energy-saving and simplified operations to the cooling tower, agriculture and commercial swimming pool markets.
Before Clear Comfort, previous roles include Advising Consultant to the Vice President at the National Center for Atmospheric Research to evaluate commercialization and market entry of internally developed technologies, and Senior Scientist/founding team member for two venture-funded bioremediation and industrial microbiology startups; BioVantage Resources and Solix Biofuels.
Nick also serves on the Board of Fraunhofer and previously served as a Board Member of the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the Leed’s School of Business at the University of Colorado. He holds an MBA from Babson College, a BS in Microbiology (molecular genetics) from Colorado State University, and seven patents.
Nick was previously the Director of Commercial Operations at Ginkgo Bioworks, a gates-funded venture leveraging genetic engineering with industrial applications to address critical problems in water remediation with synthetic biology. Prior to this, Nick was a Program Director at Fraunhofer, leading external and internal innovation of various technologies in partnership with Fortune 100 Corporations. Under Nick’s direction, specific commercialization areas include water treatment technologies, advanced materials/coatings, next-generation sensing/diagnostics and renewable energy. Nick recently re-joined Fraunhofer as a Board of Director member.
Before joining the Fraunhofer Team, Nick served as Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer at venture-funded Clear Comfort Water, leading product strategy, manufacturing, technical sales, and applied R&D. Clear Comfort Water manufactures industrial-grade advanced oxidation systems designed for energy-saving and simplified operations to the cooling tower, agriculture and commercial swimming pool markets.
Before Clear Comfort, previous roles include Advising Consultant to the Vice President at the National Center for Atmospheric Research to evaluate commercialization and market entry of internally developed technologies, and Senior Scientist/founding team member for two venture-funded bioremediation and industrial microbiology startups; BioVantage Resources and Solix Biofuels.
Nick also serves on the Board of Fraunhofer and previously served as a Board Member of the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the Leed’s School of Business at the University of Colorado. He holds an MBA from Babson College, a BS in Microbiology (molecular genetics) from Colorado State University, and seven patents.
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