Meet Our Team
Jon Lillian
Founder & CEO
Jon, founder and CEO, manages seedsprint’s European operations from Paris. He moved there 20 years ago to set up an office for the M&A boutique he founded, JH Lillian & Co. Among the firm’s many projects, Jon’s team developed a specialized technique called Outventuring
Aviva Lillian
Co-Founder & Adviser
Aviva, co-founder, led financing and strategic marketing initiatives during SeedSprint’s initial commercialization phase. As adviser, Aviva continues to provide guidance on marketing strategy for both SeedSprint’s industry and industry-seeking constituencies. She is passionate about growing this online community in the world of open innovation, by helping
Chad Kanner
Research Manager
Chad is Research Manager at seedsprint, responsible for mapping and acquiring content relating to the world’s emerging technologies. In that role, he also manages our STAR Program (Student and Technology Ambassadors for Recruitment), where seedsprint
Our Advisers
Dr. Léopold Demiddeleer
Advisor
Adda Gogoris
Advisor
Dr. Pradeep Haldar
Advisor
Edwin Kwon
Advisor
Stephen Markscheid
Advisor
Dr. Alan Naidoff
Advisor
ALAN NAIDOFF is the Founder and President of InnovationAdventure, LLC, an independent consulting firm in the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries,
Since launching his consulting practice, Dr. Naidoff has also served as a Corporate Engagement Officer at the Office of the Dean for Research at Princeton University. Before consulting, Dr. Naidoff was the Site Lead and Director of Research Contracts Management at Merck Sharpe & Dohme, where he worked for 15 years in their Departments of External Scientific Affairs and Business Development and Licensing. Dr. Naidoff earned a JD with an emphasis on Health Law from Widener University School of Law, a DMD from Temple University School of Dentistry and a BS in Biology from Cook College – Rutgers University, He also attended a multi-disciplinary two-year hospital residency program combining general dental practice, internal medicine, oral/maxillofacial surgery and pathology at the Medical College of Pennsylvania.