Duke Leahey

Mr. Duke Leahey is Founding Partner at Nidus Investment Partners LP.
He founded Nidus Investment Partners in 2010.
Starting his career working with avionic technologies in industry, Mr. Leahey was recruited to Washington University in St. Louis in 1979 to create their technology transfer program resulting in more than 300 technology licenses earning millions of dollars in research and license income.
In 1997, he moved back to industry joining Monsanto as Director, Technology Alliances Team, leading a team of scientists that optioned/licensed more than 50 new technologies and executed several hundred technology access agreements in Ag-Biotech, Nutrition and Animal Agriculture.
In 2001, he was named President of GD Searle LLC, a corporate entity set-up for the management and disposition of non-strategic intellectual property.
In 2005 he once again moved into the entrepreneurial world, setting up Life Science Alliances, LLC to work with emerging high-growth start-up companies.
He was a former board member of Competitive Technologies, Inc., president of the Association of University Technology Managers, co-chair of LES University-Industry Committee and senior lecturer on strategic partnerships for Arthur Anderson Consulting.
Mr. Leahey holds a B.S.
Industrial Management from Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts and a Masters of Arts in Business Administration and Procurement Management, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri.