Tutoring & Mentorship Program: Moving Innovations in Materials and Hardware from Idea to Commercial Success

So, you had an idea, and are ready to turn it into reality.

This program aims to assist you on your manufacturing journey. We will provide tools to help you prepare for, evaluate, and successfully achieve a commercially manufactured product. No matter your stage of development, this program will provide topical information, tools, and tutoring to lead you through the following progression of manufacturing readiness:

About the Program

Peter Russo is an entrepreneur, advisor, and mentor. He has founded, built, and sold companies, served on acquisition teams for venture firms and been an angel investor.  He retired from his product development company after 20+ years in practice.  His firm had US and China-based engineering, prototyping, and sourcing teams, created and licensed 15 brands/hundreds of SKU and accounted for over $250 million in retail sales.

As a current board member for Scale For ClimateTech (funded by NYSERDA), a past board member for Forge (Built by Greentown Labs), and Director of Growth and Innovation at MassMEP he advised established companies in strategic planning, operational efficiency and adoption of technology and guided startups in manufacturing readiness and commercialization.

Peter’s credentials include a B.S. and MBA, Certified Purchasing Manager with the ISM, a Balance Score Card practitioner, and 16 patents (all used in commercial production).

Peter will help you navigate through the process to:

• Define your product requirements.
• Produce progressively effective prototypes.
• Implement design for excellence practices.
• Evaluate viable manufacturing processes.
• Identify and communicate with contract manufacturers.
• Determine cost structures and associated modeling.
• Plan for scaling requirements for commercial production.

Learn More and Sign Up

Contact Michael Pratt at mpratt@bu.edu.