Lou Pambianco is the Managing Director of Corporate Development Partners and the Chairman/CEO of Startup Sandbox, Inc., a bioscience incubator affiliated with the University of California Santa Cruz. Lou has over 35 years experience growing successful high technology companies. As Co-Founder and Managing Director of Corporate Development Partners, Lou has assisted early stage companies in achieving exceptional results by reducing cycle time and accelerating growth and building effective and enduring teams. Lou holds a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology and a BA in Humanities from Santa Clara University. He is a competitive ocean sailboat racer, and a member of the mono hull racers who have raced the Pacific Cup — San Francisco to Hawaii in six days.