Board Observer for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF)
Craig Heim provides corporate finance and analytical support for WARF and is a Colby Board Observer. He has 7 years of merger and acquisition, capital fundraising, and licensing experience as an investment banker. As a Vice President at Grace Matthews, a Milwaukee investment banking firm, Mr. Heim operated as an Investment Banker in sell-side, buy-side, and recapitalization transactions ranging from $20 to $300 million in size and held positions on boards of directors. Prior to joining Grace Matthews, Mr. Heim spent five years in operations management with International Paper.
Mr. Heim is providing assistance to Colby as an existing WARF start-up and identifies opportunities through consultation on financial and legal resources, business planning and business management. WARF has long stood out among universities licensing their technology to outside companies and it has built an endowment of more than $1.8 billion.
Mr. Heim holds both an M.B.A. from the Weinert Applied Ventures in Entrepreneurship program and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (with Honors) from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
