Neil Kane

Neil Kane is the founder and president of Illinois Partners Executive Services, LLC. Neil Kane, a leading authority on technology commercialization and innovation, was the founding CEO of Advanced Diamond Technologies, Inc., a firm he co-founded in 2003 by licensing technology from Argonne National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy). Mr. Kane is the former co-Executive Director of the Illinois Technology Enterprise Center at Argonne and Entrepreneur in Residence with Illinois Ventures, LLC. In these roles he was founding CEO of several startup companies based on university or federal laboratory research in areas such as power electronics, photovoltaics, polymers and medical diagnostics. He has closed multiple rounds of venture capital from various sources and has secured numerous SBIR/STTR and other government contracts and awards.