Jim G. Kollegger

James Kollegger is CEO of Genesys Partners, Inc. and also CEO of the German Accelerator New York.
During his 20-plus-years history he has helped launch, fund and advise dozens of early stage companies such as Wave Systems (Nasdaq WAVX), Hollywood Stock Exchange, Courtroom Connect, Enkata, IFN, Ingram Entertainment, Folio, Hot Office, Solbright, and Knovel.
He was founder and CEO of EIC/Intelligence, one of the industry's first database publishers, sold to Reed Elsevier in 1988.
EIC pioneered online systems in high tech markets from environment, energy, to biotech, artificial intelligence and telecommunications.
Jim is one of the pioneers of the digital information industry who helped build the Information Industry Assn., (now SIIA) which named him their first "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 1987.
Jim was awarded this year's SIIA Peter Jackson Innovation Award which honors the late Thomson Reuters chief scientist, and his profound impact on the B2B publishing industry.
He is a graduate of Boston University's College of Communications and the U.S.Army Signal School and has served as a board member of numerous ventures.