{"618352":{"#nid":"618352","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Rahul Saxena Joins CREATE-X","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech announced that Atlanta business leader and venture capitalist Rahul Saxena has been named associate director of the CREATE-X (Launch). \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECREATE-X\u003C\/a\u003E was established five years ago as a faculty-led, student-focused initiative to instill entrepreneurial confidence in Georgia Tech students, enabling them to launch real startups.\u0026nbsp;Saxena will be responsible for Startup Launch, the final phase of CREATE-X, where students receive mentorship and $40,000 in grants and services to take their startups to market. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESaxena brings his experience in both operations and investing in startups which will provide a unique perspective to students hoping to start their own company. Saxena holds almost 20 years of experience in a variety of roles, from development engineer to CEO, and 10 years of experience as a venture capitalist. Saxena has helped build and guide multiple startup companies to successful exits as a CEO or a board member. Saxena\u0026rsquo;s experience as an early-stage venture capitalist will enable him to help students understand what early-stage startups need in order to become successful.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are thrilled to have gotten someone of Rahul\u0026rsquo;s caliber to lead CREATE-X Launch. Rahul is a GT alum, and has the perfect mix of investor, entrepreneur, operator, and academic experience that we were looking for\u0026rdquo; said Raghupathy Sivakumar, founding director of CREATE-X and Wayne J. Holman Chair Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. \u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;He is going to be an invaluable asset for our student founders as they set out to launch the next biggest startups from Georgia Tech!\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESaxena, a mechanical engineering Georgia Tech alumnus, earned his European Master\u0026rsquo;s degree in Fluid Mechanics from the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, and his MBA from Emory University. Rahul\u0026rsquo;s expertise started with researching mechanical heart valves where he developed innovative protocols and published several papers during his undergraduate work. His focus with biotechnology ramped-up with a Silicon Valley startup with hands-on mechatronic design of automation genetics research equipment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am thrilled and honored to join the CREATE-X team and leverage my experience for an already exceptional pool of students that are building and launching real startups,\u0026rdquo; said Saxena. \u0026ldquo;CREATE-X offers an amazing platform for students to take their ideas to market, and the results so far have been impressive. I look forward to working with these talented startup teams and in helping scale the entrepreneurial culture at Georgia Tech.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Saxena to bring Venture Capitalist and Operations experiences to Georgia Tech student startup program"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EToday,\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech announced that Atlanta business leader and venture capitalist Rahul Saxena has been named associate director of the CREATE-X\u0026nbsp;Launch program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Saxena joins CREATE-X as the Associate Director of CREATE-X"}],"uid":"34825","created_gmt":"2019-02-25 12:49:25","changed_gmt":"2019-02-27 20:03:57","author":"joliva7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-02-25T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-02-25T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"618351":{"id":"618351","type":"image","title":"Rahul Saxena","body":null,"created":"1551098938","gmt_created":"2019-02-25 12:48:58","changed":"1551098938","gmt_changed":"2019-02-25 12:48:58","alt":"","file":{"fid":"235362","name":"rahul.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rahul.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rahul.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":14276,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/rahul.jpg?itok=Cl8CYeh5"}}},"media_ids":["618351"],"groups":[{"id":"583966","name":"CREATE-X"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"137161","name":"CREATE-X"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoanna Oliva\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["joliva7@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}