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Michael Sauvante
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Mr. Sauvante is the Chairman and co-founder of The SEER Group, Inc. (“SEER”), a high technology holding company, founded to consolidate multiple companies launched by Mr. Sauvante and to provide a platform for growing new ones. He is the entrepreneurial catalyst and visionary of the team with 28+ years business experience in creating and running his own companies. He is recognized and respected as an expert in the start-up phase of business development; is quite knowledgeable and experienced in licensing, and occasionally even wears an “inventor’s hat.” One of Mr. Sauvante’s strongest attributes is his ability to build relationships and alliances between various parties—one of the essential success factors in the development of the SEER network of companies and the commercialization of their products.
Prior to founding SEER, Mr. Sauvante founded and built Rolltronics Corporation and VoltaFlex Corporation, two companies leveraging a new manufacturing methodology called “roll-to-roll” production (resembles printing newspapers) that is revolutionizing the way many new high tech products will be made. Those projects evolved from pioneering work Mr. Sauvante did when he was brought into HP Labs as a consultant and subsequently asked to stay. He agreed to work for them for a year, during which time he self initiated a new business development project intended to take technologies that were not finding commercial outlets within the company and provide them a more conducive environment to survive and grow.
In support of his efforts, Mr. Sauvante solicited and obtained assistance and input from Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, author of “The Innovator’s Dilemma” and “The Innovator’s Solution” and Dr. Mark Rice, co-author of “Radical Innovation: How Mature Companies Can Outsmart Upstarts” and current Dean at Babson. Along the way, his efforts attracted sufficient attention that he was invited by the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to use the project as the basis for a special Ph.D. program on the topic of “New Venture Creation In Mature Companies.”
Before working at HP, he founded and managed an IT consulting company; a software company that developed an international trade database related to commodity classification and customs duty rates; a company that specialized in telecommunications systems; a real estate development company that led the initial development phase of a 700-acre high technology industrial park in Fremont, California; and lastly a services company in the heavy equipment field of the construction industry.
In addition to his many talents as an entrepreneur and sometime inventor, Mr. Sauvante is also known for his very progressive thinking in the field of sustainability and corporate social and environmental behavior and responsibility. SEER stands for Social, Economic and Environmental Responsibility. To learn about Mr. Sauvante’s philosophy for building a sustainable business, read his article The Triple Bottom Line: A Boardroom Guide (www.rolltronics.com/TBL.pdf), published in the “Director’s Monthly” newsletter of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).
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