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Meet The People Behind Industrial Impact®

We are operators, founders, and investors who have built and scaled industrial technology companies.

 

We commit early and stay close, working alongside founders over the long term where execution and outcomes matter. 

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Venture Builders. Industrial Practitioners.

We turn industrial innovation into deployed systems — aligning execution,

accelerating adoption, and delivering outcomes that hold up in real-world operations.

Ken Forster

Ken Forster

Founding Partner

Lucerne

Spotting industrial change early and building the ventures that lead it.
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Sandra Mueller

Founding Partner

Lucerne

Shaping stories, operations, and systems that earn trust and drive scale.
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Michael Dolbec

Managing Partner

Menlo Park

Backing teams and technologies redefining the future of industry.
Douglas Harp

Douglas Harp

Managing Partner

San Fransciso

Turning digital ambition into measurable wins on the plant floor.
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Jerry O'Gorman

Partner

Galway, Ireland

Bringing decades of global industrial leadership to help founders scale what works.
Harinderpal Hanspal

Harinderpal Hanspal

Principal

Seattle

Connecting industrial founders with the partners and paths that unlock real growth.
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Miroslav Kriz

Principal

Prague

Backing Central Europe’s builders shaping the next industrial wave.
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Nastaran Asadi

Venture Partner

Zurich

Brings a unique blend of deep tech expertise and strategic investment acumen
Kyle Crum

Kyle Crum

Venture Partner

Milwaukee

Bridging advanced manufacturing, industrial R&D, and venture to build what’s next.
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Alistair Fulton

Venture Partner

Los Angeles

Guiding industrial technologies from strong platforms to scaled customer adoption.
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Dave Ayers

Strategy Partner

Raleigh

Bringing full‑stack industrial IoT and global R&D leadership to shape what scales.
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Joe Biron

Strategy Partner

Boston

Where code meets operations to build resilient industrial systems.
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Jesse DeMesa

Strategy Partner

San Francisco

Turning industrial strategy into performance in real operations.
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Tom Gilley

Strategy Partner

New York

Scaling connected products from silicon to cloud and from strategy to exit.
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Mobeen Khan

Strategy Partner

Dallas

Building and scaling connected, AI‑driven products that accelerate industrial growth.
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Bill O'Such

Strategy Partner

San Francisco

Turning industrial strategy into performance in real operations.
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Caoimhe O'Gorman

Associate

London

Orchestrating venture operations with clear reporting and strong processes.

Reviews background
You can’t LLM your way past decades of production and maintenance data. Context is what makes industrial AI valuable.
OT moves slower than IT — but when it moves, it transforms entire economies.
Founders win when technology is the catalyst, the business model leads, and relationships accelerate.
Industrial systems demand trust: people don’t buy technology — they buy peace of mind.
Industrial innovation lives in the world of physics — not theory. It has to survive the plant floor.
Strategic partners aren’t optional in industrial tech — they’re the multiplier that turns traction into scale.
Industrial Impact is born from resilience, security, and flexible capacity — not hype.

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