Norman Winarsky
American businessman and entrepreneur
Norman Winarsky is an American author and angel investor. He was the President of SRI Ventures at SRI International. He is a founder of SRI's venture process, which includes venture and license incubation, seed funding, the Entrepreneur-In-Residence program, and the nVention venture forum.
Winarsky was a board member and a member of the founding team of Siri, which was spun out from SRI in January 2008 and acquired by Apple Inc. in 2010.
He is author of If You Really Want to Change the World: A Guide to Creating, Building, and Sustaining Breakthrough Ventures. He is a Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Venture Partner at Relay Ventures, and an Advisor to Health2047.
He was a visiting scholar at Stanford, chairman of the University of Chicago Visiting Committee for the Physical Sciences, and a member of the National Academy Committee on Forecasting Future Disruptive Technologies. He was also a National Science Foundation Fellow, an invited member of the mathematics department of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and an assistant professor at SUNY at Albany.
In 2000, Norman and his team received an Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in technological advancement.
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