 Greg HorowittDirector and Co-Founder
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Greg Horowitt
As the Director and Co-Founder of the Global CONNECT™ program based at the University of California, San Diego, Greg Horowitt is a key thought leader in the field of ‘innovation systems’, and their relevant applications for sustainable regional economic development through technology commercialization.
Leveraging his years of applied expertise as a seasoned business executive, entrepreneur and advisor to venture capital companies, Mr. Horowitt has been instrumental in building a highly sought after research and technical assistance practice that supports the development, implementation, and integration of successful regional strategies and programs focused on the assistance of sustainable and scaleable science based innovations.
Through the assessments, benchmarking, and comparative analysis of regional capabilities and capacity, Global CONNECT™ has developed a unique, core body of knowledge unparalleled in the world. Complementing the research component of the business is a technical services arm that delivers applied expertise in program development, process engineering, economic development strategy, and policy. On the business creation side, Global CONNECT™ operates ‘bridging’ programs that link researchers to other researchers, and entrepreneurs to market channels, capital, talent, and supply chain partners in different geographic markets to critical global resources through its vast social and professional network, thereby accelerating their success.
Greg’s extensive professional and social networks have enabled the integration of a global network of regional collaboration programs, many of which are modeled on the principles of the original CONNECT program in San Diego, Global CONNECT™ has grown to include representation from 18 countries and 25 cities of the leading technology and life science centers around the world.
Mr. Horowitt’s views and vision on emerging global innovation and the mechanisms by which they scale has led to extensive public speaking engagements, and media references. In addition, he is a much sought after consultant and lecturer on global technology commercialization and capital formation / access issues. He routinely sits on panels at global and regional technology forums discussing assessment of regional innovation capacity, building technology and biotechnology clusters, and the benefits of collaborating with international partners such as the business community in San Diego and the University of California, San Diego.
Greg has been involved a Director with UCSD CONNECT, and additionally has served as Interim Executive Director of the regional CONNECT program. Throughout his service to CONNECT he has been an integral part in the formation of key partnerships that have formed the CONNECT network both locally and globally.
Greg serves as a reviewer for the Kauffman Foundations e-Venturing program, and is active with numerous business and community organizations including the San Diego Business Advisory Board, the San Diego Software Industry Council,
Greg moved down from the Bay Area in 2001, where he served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Prior to that, he was president and CEO of The Praetorian Group, a venture backed enterprise software company providing e-business solutions to law enforcement and public safety agencies across the country. For nearly 20 years before that, he was with Flying Cross by Fechheimer Uniforms, a Berkshire Hathaway company, where he finished his tenure as vice president of regional sales. He sits on the boards of a number of technology companies as well as not for profit organizations.
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