Ben Littauer has been an angel investor since 2008. He focuses on pre-seed and seed stage companies in healthcare, life sciences, and green tech. He is an active member of TBD Angels, and a former member at several other New England angel groups, which gives him a strong understanding of the angel ecosystem. He has made over 60 investments in a wide variety of startups, has led deals, and has been on the boards of several portfolio companies. He is a mentor for many founders and students interested in entrepreneurship. Mr. Littauer has been a judge for Mass Challenge, CRDF Global, and various academic competitions. He is a regular guest lecturer for classes at Babson University, Boston University, Northeastern University, and others.
Mr. Littauer was Technology Strategist for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he defined the architecture for PatientSite, one of the first portals to allow patients to communicate securely with their healthcare team and view their own medical records. He was a consultant to the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium on healthcare data security projects.
Mr. Littauer was co-founder, President, and CTO of Baranof Software, the leading vendor of service-level management software for messaging and Internet applications. Baranof was sold to Tally Systems in 1997.
He has worked for Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, Lotus, and BBN. Mr. Littauer was also an analyst with Ferris Research and Baroudi Bloor International.
Full résumé here (opens Google docs version).