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Mike Keymer is an engineer and business leader with broad experience helping small companies grow and thrive. As Manager of the New Ventures practice at Right Start Group, Mike has helped many startups and early-stage companies with strategy, IP, sales and marketing, product development, and financing needs. In 2013, Mike co-founded Topspin Labs, a business incubator focused on helping established companies commercialize their technologies for new markets by founding new startups to pursue those opportunities. He is currently the acting Chief Executive Officer for Origent Data Sciences, Inc., Topspin’s first portfolio company. Origent develops advanced machine learning models that predict the future disease progression of patients suffering from neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS, and uses that data to help biopharmaceutical companies run more efficient human clinical trials and extract better insights from their data.

Mike is formerly the Vice President of Operations for Gannon Technologies Group, a high-tech R&D firm serving various federal government clients, and Litigation Systems Inc., which he led through a turnaround to profitability. Mike holds engineering degrees from Washington University in St. Louis and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.