Ron Frazier
CEO & Founder Rocinante VR in Tallahassee, Florida
Within the last year, I earned a graduate certificate in BioDesign at Stanford University.
At Florida State University, I've taught the capstone strategy course, new venture financing, commercializing new technologies and new venture planning. In 2013, I was responsible for the InNOLEvation Accelerator - rated in the top ten University business incubators in the Americas and in the top twenty globally by the University Business Incubator (UBI) Index. I am a faculty advisor to TAMID, an organization that integrates students with the high tech Israel economy.
I'm an Executive-in-Residence at Moffitt Cancer Center tasked with helping Moffitt inventors’ fledging startups grow and gain viability so that promising cancer diagnostics, pharmaceuticals and biologics, vaccines, cell therapies and medical devices reach patients.
I'm a Mentor at the Alchemist Accelerator in San Francisco, named the "Accelerator Superstar of the Year" by Venturebeat. Alchemist focuses on the Internet-of-Things.
I'm a Mentor at the global 1776 Accelerator based in Washington, DC. The 1776 Accelerator focused on challenges in education, health, energy, sustainability, transportation, and smart cities.
Over a span of 20 years, I served as Division-Executive Vice President for three different global, technology companies. Building on my experience in the nuclear power and financial services industries, in 1989 I joined a small IT consulting group that subsequently grew to over $1 billion in revenue and executed a highly successful Initial Public Offering (IPO) in 1996 as Metamor Worldwide. During this span of time, I rose through the ranks from IT Consulting Manager to Division Vice President.
In 1999, PSINet, Inc. acquired the firm and I was promoted to Executive Vice President. PSINet operated one of the largest global data communications networks providing direct access to more than 91,000 corporate customers serving over 2 million end users in 800 metropolitan areas spread across 27 countries on five continents.
In 2001, PSINet Consulting Solutions was acquired by CIBER, Inc. Over the next eight years, I served as Executive Vice President as CIBER grew to over $1 billion in annual revenue.
I'm an alumnus of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a founding Wharton Fellow.
In 2007, I received the Citation of Merit from the University of Missouri's Crosby School of Business, the highest alumni award granted.