Mansoor  Khan is a senior licensing associate at Stony Brook University's IPP.

Mansoor is a seasoned professional with experience in technology commercialization, IP licensing, international business development and fund raising, technical marketing, venture capital, and hardware and software design.

Most recently, as the managing director at Candor IP Ventures, he advised senior management of international enterprises and global infrastructure projects on capital raising.

Previously, Mansoor was director of technology commercialization at the University of Connecticut where he used his wide skill set towards sourcing, valuation, marketing, and licensing of Intellectual Property. He played a leading role in starting many companies based on university’s IP. Additionally, he was a member of the incubator advisory group and prototype investment fund committee at UConn.

Mansoor has also worked as a Market Development Manager at Lucent Technologies’ Optical Networking Division, where he performed financial business case analysis, and formulated pricing and sales strategies for the company’s optical networking systems. He started at Lucent in the prestigious Bell Labs as a Member of Technical Staff.

He has also worked as a senior associate at a venture capital firm where he was responsible for identifying and analyzing investment opportunities in computing, semiconductors, and communication industries, and has consulted with startups in capital raising and marketing strategies.

Mansoor received BS, MS, and Ph.D. in computer engineering from Case Western Reserve University. His masters thesis was in Artificial Intelligence and Ph.D. dissertation was in microprocessor design. He also held full time positions in technical marketing and system development at various companies, large as well as university spin-offs, during his graduate studies. He has also completed a certificate program in business management from NYU.