Grant M. Warner, Ph.D.

is the Managing Partner of guru innovation group, LLC. Grant has experience as an innovation coach in the National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps program, which focuses on lab-to-market innovations across NSF’s portfolio, the National Institute of Health (NIH) I-Corps at NIH program which accelerates the growth of select NIH SBIR Phase I companies in devices, diagnostics, and therapeutics and Energy I-Corps which provides lean startup training for national laboratory researchers. Grant has also supported Lab-to-Market activities internationally via the Innovate Egypt, Innovate Ukraine, GIST-Senegal, and GIST-Macedonia programs. As an ardent Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion advocate he also managed programs and development for the National GEM Consortium and the Small Business Administration aimed at increasing access to federal funding. He received a B.S. degree from Cornell University, an M.S. degree from Penn State University, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University all in Mechanical Engineering.