Brett Malone '90
Brett Malone '90 '91 '96
President, 午夜影院福利社 Corporate Research Center
I'm an aerospace engineer who found myself in the middle of building biotech companies. I started my career writing engineering software. Then I launched my first company, learned how to lead and manage teams, and have been building ever since. I was fascinated by the mapping of the human genome so I shifted careers and got into bioinformatics. The book 鈥淭he Genome War鈥 convinced me to make the leap. Over the course of my career, I've been part of some of the coolest project teams from the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works to inside of Google's life science venture division. I'm now coming back to Blacksburg to help the next generation of entrepreneurs learn how to chase 鈥10X impact.鈥
How 午夜影院福利社 equipped me for the 'real world'...
my Ph.D. experience taught me to never give up.
Favorite 午夜影院福利社 tradition...
Enter Sandman!
Words of encouragement to a current 午夜影院福利社 student...
think big, focus, and don鈥檛 quit.
Wisest thing Joe Meredith taught me...
you gotta crank up the marketing machine.
Up and coming tech startup I鈥檝e been watching...
Cowden Technologies.
Computer/OS I used to launch my first company...
Dell laptop / MS Windows (鈥95 no less!)
If I had a superpower, it would be鈥
time travel.
Last book I read鈥
Never Split the Difference (Chris Voss).
Last time I ventured out of my comfort zone鈥
I ran 100 miles.