Mr. Fry is currently a second-year MBA student at the University of Michigan concentrating on new business development and technology. At the Ross School of Business Mr. Fry serves on the Frankel Commercialization Fund which focuses on pre-seed investments, functioned as a New Business Development Consultant with the UM Office of Technology Transfer, and was awarded the Samuel Zell Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Studies.

Previously, Mr. Fry was an Engineer/Scientist at IBM Microelectronics and a Research Assistant at the University of Washington within the Adaptive Computing Machines and Emulators Lab. His research interests were focused on reconfigurable and adaptive logic design, high performance clock distribution techniques, FPGA architectures, image processing and compression techniques. With IBM, Mr. Fry identified an opportunity to coordinate semiconductor research between multiple divisions and lead a cross-divisional project to leverage clock design advances that yielded a generational leap in performance. At the University of Washingtion, Mr. Fry's thesis work was a NASA-sponsored study on image compression algorithms altered for satellite-based reconfigurable platforms. There he also developed the Chimaera Reconfigurable Processing Unit, a system-on-a-chip custom FPGA designed to coexist with a CPU.

Mr. Fry is an MBA candidate with High Distinction at the Ross School of Business and he holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Northwestern University.    [curriculum vitae]