Barbara Carryer 

Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship
email: bcarryer@andrew.cmu.edu

Professional Background

Babs Carryer, adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at the Heinz School and the Tepper School of Business, is President of Carryer Consulting, which provides strategic marketing and business planning services to technology companies and organizations in the software and life sciences sectors. Babs is widely experienced in the start-up community, having been involved with hundreds of early-stage companies seeking financing, growth, or acquisition partners. Babs is currently President & CEO of RemComm, Inc., a provider of radio-based emergency communications and data transfer even in the absence of the Internet, cellular service and commercial power. Babs was founding CEO of MIDASBio Inc, a novel early-stage cancer diagnostic platform based on proprietary panels of cancer biomarkers, which has recently been licensed by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for further development and commercialization. Babs founded and was president of LaunchCyte LLC, a development company that creates, seeds, and harvests life sciences innovations from leading research universities across the U.S. Currently, LaunchCyte has six life sciences portfolio companies.

Babs has a Masters in Public Management from the Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University, and teaches Entrepreneurship there at the Don Jones Center for Entrepreneurship, housed within the Tepper School of Business. She also teaches Entrepreneurship at the Heinz School at CMU as part of the Masters of Information Systems (MISM) and the Masters of Medical Management (MMM) programs. Babs also teaches entrepreneurial commercialization of new technologies at the University of Pittsburgh’s Office of Enterprise Development.