Jayson Pankin | President
AutoHarvest Foundation

Jayson D. Pankin is a founder, President & CEO of the nonprofit AutoHarvest Foundation. Jayson and his partner, Dr. David E. Cole created a unique innovation ecosystem led by some of the most highly respected figures in the automotive and manufacturing industries. AutoHarvest.org launched in 2012 as the world's only truly neutral and global on-line meeting place for innovators of all types with an interest in advanced manufacturing intellectual property enabling Open Innovation collaborations. For over forty years, Jayson has been a venture partner specializing in early stage and turnaround situations and was Michigan's original venture capitalist in 1983. He was named by IAM Magazine as one of the World's Leading IP Strategists for five consecutive years and was the Small Business Foundation of Michigan's Intrapreneur Extraordinaire for 2008 while at Delphi Automotive creating the industry's first startup incubator. He has been featured in Accenture in it's "Digital Shoring for Networked Innovation" as a Leading Thinker.