Institution(s): HMS, HST, MIT

• Harvard Medical School, HST; Research Scientist, Lecturer
• MIT; Senior Lecturer at EECS and Sloan
• Vanguard Ventures; Founder and General Partner

Background:

Dr. Gill is a founder and general partner of Vanguard Ventures, a venture capital firm specializing in high technology startups, located in Palo Alto, California and Houston, Texas.

Prior to co-founding Vanguard in October 1981, Dr. Gill was:

• Executive Vice President and Group Manager of the Scientific Divisions of Spectra Physics, Inc.
• Founder of Autolab, which pioneered the application of microprocessor-based instruments and computers for chromatography laboratory applications.
• Director of Research and Engineering of the Aerograph Division of Varian Associates.
• Senior Research Chemist at Monsanto Company

Dr. Gill authored 50 technical papers and lectured worldwide on gas chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography, laboratory computerization, and advances in instrumentation. He is a native of Lufkin, Texas and earned a chemistry and engineering degree from Lamar University in Texas in 1958 and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Indiana University in 1962. He is currently a member of the Indiana University Deans’ Advisory Boards of the School of Business and School of Arts and Sciences and a Director of the IU Foundation. He also serves as an adjunct professor at Rice University and as an adjunct professor of chemistry at Indiana University. Jack was named a 1999 winner of the Horatio Alger Award for distinguished Americans.

Dr. Gill serves on the boards of Project Hope, UTMD Anderson Cancer Center, and Indiana University Foundation. He also serves on the Presidents' Circle Board of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine.