Ning Li
Head of Platform Development at Genesis Medtech Group
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Executive Officer
2024 - Current
Venture Partner
2019
Foothill Ventures, a technology-focused venture with $250M AUM, making pre-seed, seed (preferred), and A-round investments in startups across software, life science, and deep tech. NSF i-Corp Industry Mentor Board of Advisors, LumiShield Technology Entrepreneurship Mentor, DeepRx.ai Entrepreneurship Mentor, IntelliU
Foothill Ventures is a technology-focused venture fund that invests in seed to A-round startups in the United States.
Head of Platform Development
2021 - 2024
Empower surgeons with AI solutions
Co-Founder
2016 - 2018
As cofounder of Petuum, a ML/AI startup, led the company to successfully raise series A ($15 Million) and series B ($93 Million) funding from global leading investors including Softbank. Managed company full operation and grew the company from a handful of founding members to over 100 employees in 18 months. Led Petuum's business development in industrial AI and healthcare AI solutions. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/10/softbank-invests-93-million-in-ai-start-up-petuum.html https://www.geekwire.com/2018/raising-93m-pittsburgh-startup-petuum-plans-hire-130-people-year-aims-vmware-ai/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/10/petuum-secures-93m-series-b-to-push-ai-into-the-mainstream/
Petuum, Inc. is building a platform that serves the full spectrum of Artificial Intelligence
Raised $108,000,000.00 from Advantech Capital and SoftBank Vision Fund.
Various Titles for New Product & Advanced Technology Development Management
1998 - 2016
Enjoyed an inspiring career journey expanding nearly two decades of exponential growth of magnetic recording density from 2Gb/in2 to 1Tb/in2. Leading the technology transition from Longitudinal Recording, to Perpendicular Recording to Bit Patterned Recording. Deeply experienced with full product cycle and leading cross functional teams from POC, advanced technology demo, product development, customer qualification and volume production. Delivered enterprise products with industry record performance, with successful production launch in Singapore, Thailand and China. Trained for Design for Six Sigma.
Seagate is a data storage and hardware company that offers hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs), and other storage solutions.
Raised $2,300,000,000.00 from ValueAct Capital.
Education
Ph.D & MS, Materials Science
1994 - 1998
Executive MBA
2004 - 2006
BE
1988 - 1993