Dr. Petros Kotidis is a Senior Commercialization Advisor at the NobleReach Foundation. Dr. Kotidis has been in the high-tech industry for more than 30 years and has commercialized numerous technologies in the energy, materials, artificial intelligence, optoelectronics, industrial process control, photonics, safety and security, sensors, and life sciences markets.

Most recently, he was a Senior Commercialization Advisor at In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the Central Intelligence Agency, and guided high-tech startups towards technology commercialization, raising capital, and expansion into new markets. Before joining In-Q-Tel, he was President of Miracor Consulting and advised large and small companies in technology evaluation, product positioning and strategic growth. Prior to that, he served as the CEO of Block Engineering, a leader in AI-driven, laser-based chemical analysis systems.

Before that, he was the VP of Business Development at Axsun Technologies, an optical microelectromechanical systems company. He joined Axsun from Nortel Networks, a leading optical telecommunications company, where he led strategic acquisitions and corporate investments. He also worked at Textron Systems, a defense manufacturer of smart weapons, industrial sensors, and optical systems, where he was responsible for the development and market introduction of new optoelectronic products.

Dr. Kotidis has PhD and MS degrees in Aeronautics & Astronautics from MIT with a minor from the Sloan School of Management at MIT, and BS in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He has been awarded 29 patents for various optoelectronic and algorithmic inventions.