Bo is the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Nano Ventures a consulting network established in 2000 to provide commercialization services to start-up & early-stage nanotechnology, clean tech, and renewable energy companies with the primary focus on delivering customers, funding, & people for start-up and early-stage companies and projects.

Bo has 31 years experience working with start-up & early stage high technology companies in Alberta, Argentina, Colombia, Finland, Mexico, Silicon Valley, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States.

Bo's focus is on business development (corporate partnerships, funding, team building), business strategy (company development & market segmentation), and transactions focused marketing (closing transactions).  He has developed funding strategies and identified funding sources ranging from $1 to $13 million for nanotechnology enabled projects in areas such batteries, catalysts, flat panel displays, and solar photovoltaics.

Bo's work for government programs,  large corporations, and investors is focused on technology scouting and due diligence in the areas of advanced materials, batteries, bio agriculture, computational design of nano materials,  fuel cells, small satellites, solar power (PV, CPV, CSP), sustainable agriculture, water, and wind power.  In addition he has participated in the development of business strategies for a micro-nano prototyping center in Alberta and energy storage and renewable energy programs for several organizations in Mexico.

Main threads of current work are technology commercialization, including government programs in Alberta, Guanajuato (Mexico), and Singapore, including work with commercial and State and Federal research institutes and associated spin out companies and projects.

He has worked on various projects for the Mexican Technology Business Accelerator in Silicon Valley since 2007, for various Alberta ministries since 2001 and completed a project for Singapore International Export in 2010.

International work includes a due diligence assignment for the European Investment Bank (www.eib.org) regarding the decision to fund an € 83 million solar manufacturing plant in South Africa in the first half of 2008.