Frank Klemens

Frank Klemens, PhD is currently the Managing Director for BIV’s Generation Food Rural Partners (“GFRP”) fund.
Prior to this, he served as Managing Director of DuPont Ventures where he oversaw all aspects of sourcing, analyzing, executing strategic equity investments, and licensing for DuPont’s businesses.
Focus areas included biotech, food ingredients, food safety, nutrition, electronics, IoT, machine learning, and advanced materials.
Dr. Klemens generated collaborative technology investment and licensing options to create new business opportunities.
Dr. Klemens holds a B.S., M.S.
in Chemistry and a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from Purdue University.