Carmichael Roberts

Carmichael Roberts joined North Bridge Venture Partners in 2007. His scientific expertise has positioned the firm to capitalize on breakthroughs in chemistry and materials. As co-founder and chairman of the nonprofit Diagnostics For All, one of a series of collaborations with Harvard professor George Whitesides, he is developing paper-based diagnostics to provide inexpensive options to marginalized patients globally. Previously, Carmichael co-founded and served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Arsenal Medical, a company that develops foam and fiber materials that heal localized trauma to tissues and organs. He has co-founded several other ventures, including Nano-Terra, an electronics and industrial materials company and 480 Biomedical, a medical materials company that makes a bioresorbing product to treat arterial disease. In 1999 he was named one of the world's top 100 young entrepreneurs by MIT's Technology Review. Prior to his entrepreneurial career, Carmichael worked in business development at GelTex Pharmaceuticals, which was acquired by Genzyme for $1.3 billion, and in new product and business development at Dow Chemical (formerly Union Carbide Corporation). Carmichael received his BS and PhD in organic chemistry from Duke University and completed his postdoctoral National Science Foundation fellowship at Harvard University. Carmichael also has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He serves as an advisor for MIT's Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, Harvard's Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, and schools of Science and Engineering at Duke University. Carmichael serves on the advisory boards for MIT’s Deshpande Center for Innovation, Harvard’s Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center and the New England Clean Energy Council. Carmichael is on the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB) for the US Secretary of Energy Ernest Monitz. Carmichael is also a trustee of the Berklee College of Music and Duke University, an overseer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Museum of Science in Boston.