Carnegie Mellon Heinz College

Biography

Babs Carryer is adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at the Heinz College and the Don Jones Center for Entrepreneurship in Tepper School of Business. Babs is also is President of Carryer Consulting, which provides strategic marketing and business planning services to technology companies and organizations in the software and life sciences sectors. Babs currently is director of deal flow for BlueTree Allied Angels. She is the embedded entrepreneur for Project Olympus, which was founded within CMU’s Computer Science Department to stimulate commercialization of new technologies. Babs co-founded, was past president, and still serves as a consultant and board director of LaunchCyte LLC , a development company that creates, seeds, and harvests life sciences innovations from leading research universities across the U.S. Currently, LaunchCyte has six life sciences portfolio companies, which have raised collectively approximately $65 million, and which have a combined value of approximately $200 million. Babs teaches new technology commercialization through the University of Pittsburgh’s Offices of Enterprise Development and Technology Management. In the fall of 2008, Babs was the Bishoff entrepreneur-in-residence at Penn State University.

Education

B.A. Mills College, California.
Masters in Public Management (MPM), Heinz College

H. John Heinz III College
Carnegie Mellon University
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Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

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