Primary Job Title president & founder Primary Organization 
Innovative Ventures
Gender Male
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Thomas Nastas is president & founder of IVI, with a B.A., cum laude, and a M.B.A., cum laude, both from Michigan State University. IVI invests capital into US technology companies since 1986. View his resume here, investments here and contributions in Board of Directors here.
He led IVI’s entry into Canada, Europe, Africa & the CIS;
established relationships, accessed markets, raised capital to finance the start-up & management of international cash flow & venture capital funds. His early career included product development engineer, Ford Motor Company: Manager of product planning & market development at Multifastner Corp., & Donnelly Mirrors (automotive suppliers): Management consultant to AMF, Lear Sigler, Votrax Speech Synthesis, Sinteris Magnetics, Chinese Computer Communications, Recomtex & others.
Mr. Nastas conducted product, technology and venture capital assignments in automotive, computer hardware & software, energy, oil/gas, speech synthesis, plant, animal and human health to name a few.
Mr. Nastas was Managing Director, US Russia Investment Fund; Chief Investment officer & Senior Advisor, HP Russia, LP; Founder & General Partner, the Michigan Product Development Fund. He advised the IFC, the World Bank, the EU, the Canadian Business Development Bank, Financiere St. Dominique, the Government of Kazakhstan, HP Russia LP, and others in the creation of seed and early stage funds. Mr. Nastas raised US$283,000,000 of capital for these and other funds under the management of IVI and others.
Thomas participated in the board of directors of US companies including Applied Intelligence Systems Inc., Neogen Corp., Personal Bibliographic Software, and Russian companies Flexoprint (Volgograd,) Frank’s Ice Cream (Magadan) MCRI (Seattle, WA) and Sotsgorbank (Moscow).
Mr. Nastas is author of international articles and presenter at global conferences on topics of venture capital, technology and innovation. He is Professor of Marketing at the American Institute of Economics & Business College (Moscow) where he teaches evening MBA classes in Entrepreneurship/Venture Capital, Introduction to Marketing and Sales Management (click on a link to view course syllabus). Additionally, Mr. Nastas is a volunteer of ‘MBA Advising’, at Pericles (Moscow), a non-profit institution that tutors Russians for admission to MBA universities in Europe and the USA. Mr. Nastas assists Russians in the strategy and writing of answers to MBA essay questions and their preparation for entrance interviews.
Mr. Nastas is a U. S. citizen. He speaks intermediate Russian.
