CARLOS Gutierrez

Chief Strategy Officer

Larta Institute

Carlos Gutierrez is the Chief Strategy Officer at Larta. He oversees aspects of client and partner engagement, new business growth, and initiatives in the areas of technology commercialization and technology transfer. Carlos has led strategic efforts to initiate and nurture engagements with leading federal agencies that support R&D-driven ventures under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Partners include the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy (DOE), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Institute for Standards & Technology (NIST), and others. He has similarly pioneered projects with government agencies around the world to support ecosystems of innovation and the global competitiveness of entrepreneurs. Countries and client partners include Japan (Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry), Russia (under nonproliferation program support), Malaysia (Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation), Brazil (Agency for Industrial Development), and others including Canada and New Zealand. He has served on a World Bank mission to Croatia assessing innovation policy, capital infrastructure, and government mechanisms to support high technology entrepreneurs.

He conceived and launched Larta’s Industry Network of executives in corporate venturing, licensing, external discovery, and technology scouts across various sectors. He has served as a speaker and moderator at the SBIR National Conference on the commercialization of government-supported R&D and World Bank briefings on similar subject matter. He has advised and mentored NSF and USDA-funded companies in Larta programs leveraging technology to address issues related to remediation of produced water and groundwater cleanup.

Carlos has a B.S. degree in Marketing and Business Administration from Cal State University, Northridge, and an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (USC). He is bilingual in English/Spanish.