Engineering alum discusses investment strategies
ME graduate Mike Guarasci ’83 will be featured at Dean’s Speaker Series event on Sept. 25
Mike Guarasci ’83
Personal investments and stock market funds are only some of the resources that can be used to fund inventions or new processes. Understanding how these investments might work for entrepreneurial engineers is necessary. Engineering graduate Mike Guarasci ’83 will discuss investment strategies he’s acquired and how his path in the investment field relates to his training as an engineer at the next KGCOE Dean’s Alumni Speaker Series event.
Guarasci will present “An Engineer’s Journey from RIT to Wall Street” at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, in the Xerox Auditorium in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering.
Currently the chief financial officer and founding investor of Infraredx, a coronary imaging company in the Boston area, Guarasci and his team developed a ground-breaking technology that combines light and sound to image coronary arteries to help diagnose heart disease.
After graduating from RIT with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering in 1983, and from SUNY Buffalo with an MBA, he pursued a career in finance. He’s held positions as a financial analyst with American Airlines and is founder of Harbor Light Investment Management Co. He also served as head of institutional business for Bear Stearns Asset Management. After more than 25 years on Wall Street, he retired in 2012.
The speaker series is sponsored by RIT’s Office of Development and the Kate Gleason College of Engineering. For more information, contact Donna Benier at 585-475-4045 or dlbdar@rit.edu.
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