Russ Wilcox

Russ Wilcox is a general partner at Pillar, a seed stage VC firm in Boston. Russ comes to VC after a career as a serial entrepreneur. He is an Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year, a Mass High Tech All-Star, a Venture Partner at the Harvard Business School, and an instructor on entrepreneurship for Harvard SEAS. He was previously CEO of E Ink, a company he co-founded to commercialize electronic paper materials invented at the MIT Media Lab. E Ink conducted ground-breaking research and shipped tens of millions of displays for the Amazon Kindle, SONY Reader, B&N Nook and other devices. In 2009 he sold the company for $480 million. Russ also co-founded Transatomic Power, a project to develop safer and cleaner nuclear energy, and Piper Therapeutics, pursuing a preclinical target for immuno-oncology. He graduated with honors in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College and was a Baker Scholar at Harvard Business School.