Ashwin Narayanan, Ph.D

Senior Manager | Bain & Company

Greater Chicago Area

About

Scientist by training, and an entrepreneur at heart. Passionate about the intersection of business and science, and in scaling academic technologies from the bench to the market. Driven to maximize the impact of technologies to those who need it the most.

Experience

  • Bain & Company (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
    • Senior Manager
      Aug 2024 - Present · 2 yrs

    • Manager
      Oct 2022 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

    • Consultant
      Sep 2020 - Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Postdoctoral Fellow at Simpson Querrey Institute @ Northwestern University
    Sep 2018 - Apr 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Doctoral Researcher at Northwestern University
    Sep 2012 - Sep 2018 · 6 yrs 1 mo

    Principal Investigator: Samuel I. Stupp Dissertation title: Intermolecular Organic Charge Transfer Complexes: A Design Motif for the Study of Organic Ferroelectricity, Semiconductivity and Exchange in Supramolecular Assemblies Published 4 peer-reviewed academic papers and 2 patents

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant at Cornell University
    Aug 2010 - Jun 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Principal Investigator: Lynden A. Archer Developed nanoparticle-polymer blends that could reversibly alter its shape in response to an applied magnetic field.