2011年5月17日

XconomyDetroit /安阿伯市——如果杰夫·威廉姆斯酿造某种秘密混合物将本土企业转化为大付天,他不让。“你只要确保你培养良好的人们想要的公司,“低调威廉姆斯告诉Xconomy。“我们很幸运有一些不错的退出。“这可能是轻描淡写。地区渴望成功的故事,威廉姆斯已经提供了两个:正欲以2.75亿美元出售的HandyLab (BD)在2009年和2.05亿美元出售Accuri血细胞计数器BD今年早些时候。HandyLab和Accuri都是密歇根大学的剥离。威廉姆斯还以前的首席执行官基因组的解决方案,一个生命科学产品公司在安阿伯他在1997年共同创立。最终该公司2000年上市,最终两年后并入哈佛大学生物科学。让威廉姆斯密歇根近乎救世主的高科技经济,与HandyLab Accuri,展示和基因组的解决方案为A, B, c .当地支持者说威廉姆斯的成功证明了国家最出名的是它的汽车工业是大幅下降转危为安。“杰夫是一个罕见的人带来整个包作为一个早期的CEO-very智能表,驱动,理解技术,策略,如何管理一个不断壮大的公司,与投资者如何工作,以及如何退出,”蒂姆•彼得森表示植物园合资公司的董事总经理,Accuri和HandyLab资助。 “We are very lucky to have him here in Michigan.” Not that Williams is screaming for adulation. “I try not to pay too much attention to that stuff,” he says. Don’t worry Jeff. I’ll do that for you. In truth, Williams is one third of a team that seems to have a found a winning formula: the U-M spins out a medical company, Arboretum finances it, and Williams leads it. The triumvirate provides much needed consistency and mass to a fragmented state that often struggles to attract the attention of outside investors and buyers of anything other than automobiles. In fact, Arboretum recently recruited Williams to run another U-M-bred startup , Life Magnetics. “If there’s anything to the system, it’s that Arboretum and I get along very well,” Williams says. “We both gravitate towards good companies. We’re definitely seeing that with Arboretum, that it has become a premiere venture capital firm in the country.” “The U-M has certainly gotten very good at backing companies spun out of the university,” he continues. “You hate to see all of that technology go to waste… It’s good to show that our technologies can be developed to a stage that they can be acquired.” It certainly helps that Arboretum and the university can turn to a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record … Next Page »