Michael A. Alvarez
Michael has been building strategic partnerships between industry, government, academia, and non-profits for more than twenty-five years. Early in his career he was a management consultant with Accenture in NYC, focused on corporate biopharma and energy clients.
He later founded and directed centers for entrepreneurship, industry engagement, and workforce development at several premier institutions renowned across the globe including Stanford University, Columbia University, UC San Francisco, and MD Anderson Cancer Center.
He is widely sought for input and expert opinion on human and planetary health, technology innovation, biomedical science training, business strategy, and the future of work in emerging and evolving sectors. He is an established author and has addressed these topics in key venues such as Nature, Forbes, US News and World Report, and the National Public Radio.
He continues to advance health science and global climate solutions through his role as program director for QB3 at UCSC, and as an investor and an advisor for life science companies. He formerly served as chair and as a board member for many years for the Northern California SF based Bay Bio Institute (successfully expanded now into the larger state-wide enterprise known as California Life Sciences).
He continues to serve his heritage as a first-generation born US-Latino supporting the Hispanic community abroad as a member of the Hospital de La Familia Foundation board, improving healthcare in Guatemala through hospital, eye clinic, and nutrition center operations; and locally on the Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley board. .
Michael holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Boston College, and certificates in Intellectual Property Management and Bio-Executive Education from the University of Washington and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business respectively.