Kelly Wanser

Kelly Wanser is the founder and CEO of Luminus Networks, an entrepreneur, inventor and technologist, specializing in enterprise infrastructure technologies, and holds over a dozen patents in electronic messaging, security and networking.

Kelly focuses on areas of infrastructure in which critical, diffuse legacy technologies are being disrupted, and transformative technologies piloted by innovative cloud and web companies are being developed for the enterprise.

Kelly also advises early stage programs in 'big science' innovations related to climate and energy, including the Laser Inertial Fusion Energy Program and Lawrence Livermore National Ignition Facility.

Kelly founded epidemic.com, an early innovator in dynamic advertising and viral marketing, coldspark.com, and email infrastructure platform and ecert.com, a security company.

Trained in economics, statistics and philosophy, Kelly started her career in the pharmaceutical industry in the field of health economics and outcomes research, moving to product management for an innovative early web-based disease management start-up funded within Glaxo. From there she spent a number of years in strategy consulting for Arkwright plc in the UK, focused on international growth and internet strategies for global multi-national companies.