Jim provides technical analysis support to the down select process. These analyses assess viability and risks of technologies to match with opportunities. Prior to joining Innventure, Jim was a co-founder, and Chief Technology Officer at XL TechGroup working alongside many of the current leaders of Innventure. Jim’s degrees in physics and experience in building companies based on innovative technologies make him well suited for this role. Other roles in his career include systems engineering, technology development, and providing technical and programmatic leadership for massively complicated, multidisciplinary systems and their associated industrial complexes.