Todd Stavish is the Vice President of the ventures team at SRI. In this role, Todd manages the overall operations for SRI Ventures, including incubation and deal sourcing.
Prior to joining SRI, Todd was Director of Lab41, a division of In-Q-Tel Labs. Under his leadership, Lab41 developed novel deep learning algorithms, security for machine learning models, and one of the largest real-world audio training datasets. Previously, Todd was co-founder of CosmiQ Works, an applied research lab focused on developing, prototyping, and evaluating open source artificial intelligence capabilities for geospatial use cases. While at CosmiQ Works, he pioneered the SpaceNet Challenge, a corpus of commercial satellite imagery and associated algorithm design competitions. Before working at CosmiQ, Todd led In-Q-Tel’s big data, geospatial, and commercial space investments.
Todd brings a wealth of experience to SRI’s Ventures team, having spent his spent his early career working in Silicon Valley start-ups. He received a bachelor’s degree in Computational Physics from Saint Bonaventure University.
Reach out to Todd directly if you are interested in working with him to identify opportunities for potential successful spin-offs.

Kirgues attended Marquette University where he earned his Bachelor Degree in Finance. He went on to attend the University of Wisconsin Law School, graduating in 2008. He then served as a Clerk to the Honorable Judge William E. Callahan, Jr. in the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Kirgues became an Associate for Quarles & Brady LLP in 2011. He met gener8tor co-founder Troy Vosseller in 2011 through that position and has been growing the gener8tor brand since the company was founded in 2012. To date, gener8tor has expanded to over 100 employees and has supported 2,200 startups in raising $4B+ in capital and creating more than 15,000 jobs.

2023年にジェトロ入構。宇宙やモビリティ等のDeeptech分野の日系スタートアップの海外展開支援に従事してきた。現在はジェトロ名古屋にて日系スタートアップの海外展開支援に加え、国境を越えたパートナーシップの構築や連携促進を通じて、日本と海外のイノベーション・エコシステムをつなぐ役割を担っている。