Partners

Xomix Partners

Carryer Consulting

Carryer Consulting provides strategic marketing and business planning services to technology companies and organizations in the software and life sciences sectors. It is led by Babs Carryer, President, who, in addition to over 10 years of marketing consulting, is widely experienced in the startup community. Babs has been involved with hundreds of early-stage companies seeking financing, growth, or acquisition partners.

She is president and CEO of RemComm, Inc., a software company which provides reliable data transfer and data management in the absence of commercial power, internet, telephone, and cellphone service. Babs is also founding CEO of MIDASBio, a startup specialty reference laboratory based on proprietary panels of cancer biomarkers. Previously, Babs founded and was president of LaunchCyte LLC, a development company that creates, seeds, and harvests life sciences innovations from leading research universities across the U.S.

Babs has a Masters in Management from Carnegie Mellon University, where she teaches Entrepreneurship. Babs also teaches entrepreneurial commercialization of new technologies at the University of Pittsburgh’s Office of Enterprise Development.

Bilyan, LLC

Bilyan provides timely and state-of-the-art innovation management services that are market immersed and sector-specific. BILYAN engages data-driven business analyses of technology investments to advance best practice in the field of innovation management. BILYAN informatics tools combine with market sector-specific action networks to avail best-in-class technology management resources for technology innovators and investors.

Bilyan was founded by President Jill A. Tarzian Sorensen, a senior innovation manager with twenty years of experience in intellectual asset and technology management. Jill also serves as the Executive Director of a new clean energy initiative, the Baltimore Electric Vehicle Initiative, advancing clean and renewable energy resources for urban settings. Prior to Bilyan, Jill directed the technology transfer offices of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Illinois at Chicago where she was responsible for technology commercialization, portfolio management, licensing and equity deals, intellectual property assessment and valuation. Prior to her assuming the Directorship of UIC’s intellectual property office, she served as in-house intellectual property counsel to the University of Illinois for twelve years.

Jill earned her J.D. from DePaulUniversity, her B.A. from Northwestern University, pursued graduate studies in chemistry at the University of Illinois and was a visiting scholar to the University of Oxford in 2004 and through 2007. She presently is professional faculty at the Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business, teaching social entrepreneurship.