Donald Golini

Don Golini is a successful entrepreneur with extensive experience in the development, management, and commercialization of new technologies.
Through SANICA Ventures, Don provides consulting and advisory services, serves on a number of Boards and Advisory Committees, and is an angel investor.
Prior to that, as president and founder of QED Technologies, Don licensed a university technology and developed products that succeeded in global markets.
QED was acquired in 2006 by Cabot Microelectronics and Golini stayed on as president until 2010.
Previously, Golini managed the research program at the Center for Optics Manufacturing at the University of Rochester (U of R), and worked on large optics manufacturing and R&D at Itek Optical Systems in Lexington, Mass.
Don served as an adjunct professor at the Simon School of Business, on the Hajim School Dean’s Visiting Committee, and the executive committee for the U of R Technology Development Fund.
He was chairman of the Rochester Angel Network, worked as an EIR at High Tech of Rochester, and continues to advise a number of companies.
A former president of the OSA Rochester chapter and named on 7 U.S.
patents, Golini now resides on the New Hampshire seacoast, serves as a catalyst for MIT’s Deshpande Center and is passionate about startups and entrepreneurship.
He is an OSA Fellow, received his B.S.
in Optics from the University of Rochester and M.S.
in Electro-Optics from Tufts University.