Loren Peterson, CPA

Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Loren Peterson is an entrepreneur and business executive with significant experience starting, developing, operating and exiting technology-based companies, mainly in the life sciences industry. He currently serves as an entrepreneurial advisor and owner of EAS-MKE, LLC, a consulting firm working with institutions of higher education as well as their faculty on strategies and tactics for developing and commercializing innovative research, often through the formation of new companies established for this purpose.

Prior to forming EAS-MKE, Loren was a Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer for Venture Investors, LLC, a leading venture capital firm in the Midwest, focused on making seed and early stage healthcare and technology investments. Earlier in his career, he worked for 15 years as a CPA and another 17 years as an executive in the pharmaceutical and drug development industries. He has extensive operational experience with small-to-medium-sized businesses and has successfully financed and grown several drug development companies. He served as President, CEO and Director of ZyStor Therapeutics from 2003 until 2010, when it was acquired by a larger pharmaceutical company. Loren currently serves as Entrepreneur-in-Residence for University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Lubar Center for Entrepreneurship as well as for Concordia University Wisconsin. In addition, he is an instructor for the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Program in southeast Wisconsin.