Dr. Vurpillat has participated in the startup of 15 high-tech companies.  Collectively, they have achieved more the $20,000,000,000 in stock market valuation; He is an advisor, lecturer and author. He was also the US partner of the Global Software programs sponsored by the EU and Finland. In addition he is a founder of 21st Century Connections and the Suominet organizations dedicated to biotech and wireless technology transfer from Finland to the USA.

He is located in the heart of Silicon Valley, and has developed numerous contacts in the high tech venture capital field. He is also a member of several powerful networking organizations in Silicon Valley including SD Forum, Churchill Club, USMAC and The San Jose BioCenter.

In his long and distinguished career, Dr. Vurpillat has developed three valuable capabilities:

• The ability to predict the future of technology and commerce, and position companies in the major line of growth.
• The ability to connect clients into his personal network of Silicon Valley, North American, European and Asian contacts
• The ability to recognize serendipitous opportunity in the pursuit of the original goal and to effect change within the stakeholder community to implement the changes required to take advantage of the opportunity.

These qualities have proved enormously valuable in the past and are expected to be even more valuable in the future. He is also author of three books Principals of Inertial Navigation, “Conversations with the Future” (later made into a Documentary). and “Launching your Software Business in America” written at the request of the Government of Finland. He is also a member of Mensa and holds 7 Patents.

Dr. Vurpillat received his undergraduate degree from California Polytechnic University, majoring in electrical engineering and mathematics.  Later he received an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University, and a Ph.D. from Newport University in Human Behavior.

He began his career in the navy where he served in advanced electronics aboard the U.S. Navy submarine Pomodon-SS 486. He helped pioneer early computers and naval weapons systems.  He was an engineer in inertial navigation at the Automatics Division of North American Aviation, and did pioneering Pattern Recognition research as a senior engineer at the Litton Information Sciences Laboratory in Massachusetts.

Dr Vurpillat has been President of three successful high-tech companies, and Vice-President of R&D at two others.  At Spear Information Systems, as President, he initiated the first real time online-programmed stock trading system in the U.S. This revolutionary system generated financial computerized information for internal use and computerized stock analysis for over 3000 subscribers nationwide.

As Founder and President of LV Computer Systems, he established LV’s position as the premier supplier of online technical and fundamental equity data and analytical tools in real time for the investment company.  The company later merged with a public company with considerable profits to its shareholders and the technology became the foundation for Bridge Data.

At the startup of Telerate he was Technical Director and was responsible for the design and development of the first real time on-line money market system in the U.S. That system grew to 104,000 on-line terminals worldwide. He was a major contributor to Telerate's very rapid growth, which was subsequent sold in 1987 to Dow-Jones for $1.7 billion.  

Dr. Vurpillat was Vice-President of Safeguard Scientific, Inc. for 14 years and was a major contributor to that company's extraordinary growth and profitability.  Safeguard is a broad based high tech company providing financial and management services for over 19 associated companies.  These include Safeguard Business Systems, Novell Data Systems, Compucom, Coherent Systems, Cambridge Technologies and QVC. The latter, QVC, was the purchaser of Paramount Studios, and itself had a market value of close to $10 billion. 

He initiated the successful Novell Data Systems into the Safeguard fold, and recruited its very successful CEO, Ray Norda.. Novell subsequently reached a stock market value of over $10 billion.  Dr. Vurpillat was a major contributor to the novel and creative management approach very successfully mastered at Safeguard.

Later, he became Chairman of InCell, Inc., a company in a specialized area of biotechnology. Recently he formed a joint venture with Toshiba Japan to create and market a spontaneous LAN product utilizing the new Blue Tooth and 802.11 protocols. Additionally, he is a founder and acting CEO of Life Span Genetics a drug discovery firm focused on the degenerative diseases of aging. He is also an advisor to the 70,000 member Life Extension Foundation and the Life Extension Organization