Executive in Residence

Dinesh serves as Executive in Residence at DIHI, advising the team at DIHI on translation and commercialization of their innovation projects. He currently works full time as the Vice President of Healthcare Business Development, North America at Sensnye Health plc. At Sensyne Health, Dinesh leads the development of new strategic and commercial partnerships with healthcare systems and AMCs including ethical clinical data sharing partnerships, the implementation of clinical algorithms to support patient care and the use of the SENSIGHT clinical AI data platform. He is also a member of the Forbes Business Development Council, advisory board of Entrepreneurs Without Borders and innovation committee at HIMSS.

Dinesh brings to DIHI broad expertise in business development with a proven track record in translating research, building partnerships, commercializing innovations and catalyzing spinouts across domains, sectors and fields. Prior to joining DIHI and working for Sensyne Health, he worked for six years at Duke Health and served as Director, Digital Innovations with Duke’s Office for Translation and Commercialization. In this role, Dinesh led the commercialization of digital/high tech innovations and data assets from R&D, QI/QA and innovation activities enterprise wide across Duke Health and Duke University through licensing, ventures, translation, alliances and collaborations. He also directly managed the licensing of innovations funded by and/or developed at DIHI and catalyzed the spin out of startups including KelaHealth, Clinetic, Cohere-Med, Mente and Scanslated. Outside of working in technology commercialization, Dinesh also had a short stint in venture capital as a fellow with the Alumni Ventures Group. He joined Duke after having worked four years at North Carolina State University and served as the Associate Director of NCSU’s Office of Technology Transfer. While working at Duke and NC State, Dinesh has also served as a reviewer/panelist with the SBIR/STTR grant programs at NIH and NSF and advisor/reviewer/mentor with NC IDEA. He also sat on the board of advisors of NC TECH and the entrepreneurship & innovation committee of IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society. Prior to working at Duke and NC State, he worked in technology transfer at the Texas A&M University System and the University of South Florida. Dinesh also served as an adjunct assistant professor of electrical engineering at NC State and USF and collaborated as an investigator on grant funded research translation projects funded by NCBiotech and NSF.

Dinesh earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of South Florida and his MBA in Innovation & Finance from North Carolina State University.