N. Darius Sankey

Dr. N.
Darius Sankey is a seasoned executive in the venture capital and technology industries.
Dr. Sankey is currently a founder and Managing Director of Innovation Acceleration Capital.
Darius has served as a Managing Director at Sway Ventures, and Ocean Tomo, leading their Innovation Management Practice.
Before his work with Ocean Tomo, Darius served as a Senior Director of Portfolio Management at Intellectual Ventures, a Managing Director at DFJ – Zone Ventures, and has served as a board member for several companies including Unium, 3Discovered, Siimpel Corporation and Neven Vision (acquired by Google).
He has worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, Inc. and held strategic planning, consulting, and R&D positions at RAND and AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Darius holds a Ph.D.
in Optical Engineering from the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester and a B.S.
in Physics and Electrical Engineering from MIT.
He is also an adjunct professor at the Rady School of Business at the University of California, at San Diego (UCSD).