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Cathy Farmer

Founding Member at The Fourth Effect

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Cathy Farmer is an accomplished Autism Advocate and Startup Advisor with a strong background in program management and cross-functional team leadership. She currently serves as a Co-Founder of Autism Angels Group, a Board President at the Autism Center of Northern California, and a General Member of the Board at the Institute for Exceptional Care, showcasing her dedication to supporting individuals with autism and driving positive change in the community. Highlights of Cathy Farmer's career include her role as a Limited Partner at JC/VC, where she demonstrated her expertise in investing, and her position as an Adjunct Instructor/Industry Mentor at the National Science Foundation (NSF) iCorps program, highlighting her commitment to fostering innovation and entrepreneurship.

Work Experience 

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The National Institutes of Health

  • Instructor

    2024 - Current

    Instructor for the new NIH Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, focusing on desirability discovery. https://seed.nih.gov/entrepreneurial-training/bootcamp

National Institutes of Health is a biomedical research facility that focuses on biomedical and health-related research.

Raised $5,000,000.00 from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

nih.gov
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Institute for Exceptional Care

  • General Member Board

    2022

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JC/VC

  • Limited Partner

    2021

Autism Angels Group (Investing /Advising group)

  • Co-Founder

    2020

    Autism Angels Group brings together capital and talent to aggressively drive economic opportunities and technology-driven solutions that create a positive social impact for the autism community. We welcome partnerships with individuals, organizations and institutions that wish to join us in investing in people, private markets and for-profit enterprises that seek to include and empower those on the autism spectrum.

Autism Center of Northern California

  • Board President, Autism Center of Northern California

    2019

    2022-Present President of the Board 2019-2022 General Board duties and Fundraising & Skill Assessment Subcommittees

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Organization for Autism Research

  • Member Board of Directors

    2016

    General OAR board member supporting individuals on the autism spectrum. Chairman of the OAR Schwallie Family Scholarships, awarded to students on the spectrum.

Organization for Autism Research is an autism organization that focuses solely on funding applied autism research.

researchautism.org
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Lybbie

  • Advisor

    2021

    Lybbie is the only breast milk sensor pecifically designed to treat and prevent low milk supply in breastfeeding mothers.

Lybbie creates breast milk pumps that does not need to be removed until the end of the day.

lybbie.com
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The Fourth Effect

  • Founding Member

    2020

    The fastest growing board marketplace matching forward thinking companies to women board candidates to accelerate growth and get women into the board candidate pipeline. https://thefourtheffect.com/

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United States Department of Defense, CDMPR Autism Research Program

  • Consumer Reviewer - Grants for the CDMRP Autism Program

    2019

    Consumer Reviewer (on behalf of those impacted from being on the spectrum) of DOD/CDMRP Autism Grants. https://cdmrp.army.mil/arp/default

Oxford Construction of Pennsylvania is specializing in building construction

defense.gov
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National Science Foundation (NSF) (iCorps)

  • Adjunct Instructor / Industry Mentor

    2018

    National Science Foundation Innovation Corps Industry Mentor. Support startup (HealthIT) teams within the National Cohort (7 week program).

National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency that supports research and education in the fields of science and engineering.

nsf.gov

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