Dr. Wasiq Bokhari, Managing Partner, Quantum Insight
Wasiq is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Quantum Insight, a business consulting and strategy firm focused on the applications of new materials and nanotechnology. He works with Molecular Diamond Technologies, a business unit of Chevron and also with Hitachi on the adoption and commercialization of nanotechnology with applications in energy, IT and medicine. Wasiq also works with entrepreneurs, early-stage startups and multiple venture funds in to help emerging nanotechnologies cross the Òvalley of death.Ó

Before Quantum Insight, he was part of the founding team and Senior Vice President of Products of Clickmarks, an enterprise infrastructure software company, subsequently acquired by Semotus Solutions. Wasiq received his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked in the group headed by Nobel laureate Jerome Friedman. He was part of the team that discovered a fundamental particle called the top quark at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in 1995, one of the most prominent physics results of the decade. He is the author of more than 50 scientific and technical publications, and is cited as an inventor on 8 US patents, granted and applied. He co-authored a widely recognized report on the potential of nanotechnology for the California Commission for Science and Technology (CCST). He is also the cofounder and Steering Committee Chair of the MIT Stanford UC Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum. Wasiq currently works with PCAST (Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology) on issues related to energy.