Patrick Dietzen

Patrick Dietzen brings 15+ years of early stage tech venture executive experience and expertise. He is passionate about building businesses that apply cutting edge technology and innovation to create positive social impact. Patrick has played founder and executive roles in a variety of technology companies including founding and serving as President of advanced materials company Sirigen, which successfully commercialized flagship technology developed at the University of California Santa Barbara that applied novel conducting polymer materials for fluorescent biomarker detection in healthcare diagnostics and was subsequently acquired by Becton, Dickinson & Co. The inventors of Sirigen’s technology included Alan J. Heeger, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of conductive polymers. Sirigen serves as a notable success story for commercialization of a materials innovation out of a university lab. In addition to other roles he has led business development at SaurikIT, a software development and consulting company that grew from a start to $10MM in revenues and 30+ million users of its mobile app store in just a few years. Patrick specializes in launching and building new enterprises involving the commercialization of cutting edge science and technology.