Eric Paley
Eric Paley is Massachusetts Secretary of the Executive Office of Economic Development. He is partner emeritus of Founder Collective, a venture capital firm based in Cambridge, and the co-founder and former CEO of Brontes Technologies, a dental technology company acquired by 3M in 2006.
Early life and education
Paley grew up on Long Island. He attended Dartmouth College, graduating magna cum laude with a BA in political science in 1998. He received an MBA from Harvard Business School with distinction in 2003 as a Baker Scholar.Career
Monitor Group, Abstract Edge
Following his graduation from Dartmouth, Paley returned to New York, where he began his career as a strategy consultant for The Monitor Group. In 1999, with his brother and a cousin, he founded Abstract Edge Web Solutions, a web development company. Their clients included the Million Mom March, a rally in support of stricter gun control that took place on the National Mall on Mother's Day 2000. Abstract Edge developed the website, millionmommarch.com, which raised more than $100,000 for the organization.Brontes Technologies
Paley attended Harvard Business School after leaving Abstract Edge in 2001. His classmates included Micah Rosenbloom and David Frankel. As MBA students, Rosenbloom and Paley partnered with MIT professor Douglas Hart to co-found and run Brontes Technologies, a 3D digital dental impression and fabrication system based on technology from MIT and the research of János Rohály and two MIT graduate students. Paley served as the CEO of Brontes until 2006. Rosenbloom was its COO and Frankel its first investor. All three graduated from Harvard Business School in 2003.Paley holds six patents related to the invention and commercialization of the Brontes system.In 2006, the company was acquired by 3M for $95 million.