Joe Caruso
“Advocate for entrepreneurs”
For the last 20 years Joe has served as mentor, coach, and personal advisor to CEO’s and entrepreneurs — dealing with issues of strategy, leadership, team building, and venture capital and matters of personal growth. In recent years, he has served as investor and active director with numerous companies, public and private.
Joe has served as interim CEO for companies in need of strategic change and has served as personal advisor to numerous company presidents. Joe is a Director and active investor in Boston MicroMachines, Common Angels, Nimbit, and i2Chem. He is currently a member of CommonAngels and a Managing Partner of Brookwood Partners, and was previously a principal in Walnut Venture Associates, all investment groups for early stage companies.
Joe is past-president of the National Association of Corporate Directors (New England Chapter), a member of the advisory board for the Boston University Photonics Center. Joe has served as a Charter Member of TIE Boston (The Indus Entrepreneur), a global not-for-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship. A graduate of Northeastern University (BSEE with honors) and the Harvard Business School (MBA).
Previous board memberships include: ACT Medical, Acumenta, Adhesive Technologies, American Fantasy Sports, Audiofile, Boston Restaurant Associates, Coffee Connection, Colonial Mills, Corion, Cyborg Corporation, General Analysis, Haymarket Bank, Laser Science, Metrisa, Tytronics, Qiave Technologies, QD Vision, Quant Funds (trustee); Wwwhoosh, Zentox, the Turnaround Management Association (founding director, New England Chapter), the National Association of Corporate Directors (New England Chapter), the Association for Corporate Growth (New England Chapter) and WEST (Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology). Joe has also served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.
Early in his career, Joe worked at Teradyne and Autex, Inc., and was CEO at Cyborg Corporation, a venture-funded company that was a pioneer in the use of PC’s in laboratory and factory automation.