Ken Rother is the Director of Rev: Ithaca Startup Works as well as its Hardware Entrepreneurship program. He is the Managing Director of Cornell’s eLab student accelerator program, teaches entrepreneurship at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, instructs and coaches in several technology commercialization programs including NSF I-Corps, and is a Venture Partner at Cayuga Venture Fund.
Mr. Rother has held multiple senior business and technical positions for organizations such as Discovery Communications, Reuters, Matrox, and the Toronto Stock Exchange. He has direct startup experience, having co-founded a software business in Toronto and joined an early-stage online media business in New York, both of these startups concluding with successful exits. Most recently, Mr. Rother was the Senior Vice President of Digital Media at Discovery.