Otto Prohaska founded OttoConsulting, LLC. in January of 2006. He is bilingual in English and German and has over twenty years of multi-cultural business experience: in new business and new product development, in strategic and business planning, in technology transfer, in obtaining the required finances, and in building effective teams and organizational structures to start new, as well as to grow businesses profitably.

He held senior management positions in start-up, small, and large companies in the U.S. and in Europe, where he planned, raised capital for plan execution, and led development of novel medical, environmental, and analytical devices, validated new technologies, and headed technology transfer from the idea to the commercialization of new products.

Prior to his positions in industry, Otto led research teams at the Technical University in Vienna, Austria, at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute in Vienna, Austria, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, and at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. He was also guest professor at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands and at the University of Muenster in Germany.

Otto received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria for the development of novel micro-sensor arrays for medical research applications. He obtained his Executive MBA from the University of Connecticut, where he specialized in finances and business strategy, and operational and organizational improvements.

Otto received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria for the development of novel micro-sensor arrays for medical research applications. He obtained his Executive MBA from the University of Connecticut, where he specialized in validation of new technologies and estimation of ROI expectations.

He has 18 national and international patents and patent applications, was awarded the Leonardo Da Vinci Prize by Rotary International for novel micro-fabricated devices and systems, and is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society.

Otto’s technical knowledge is in biomedical and materials engineering; in medical, bio, environmental, electrochemical, and commercial instrumentation; in integrated systems, micro-fabrication and mass-production of MEMS; and in the analytical instrumentation for lab, industrial, and general medical and life sciences applications.