Neil Cohen

Neil Cohen is the founder and chairman of Emerald Development Managers LP, a venture capital firm founded in 1994. He is also co-founder, co-CEO, and a member of the Executive Committee of American Rock Salt Company, LLC, the largest salt mine in the US. Mr. Cohen serves as a board director of Proscia Inc., Sustained Nano Systems, and TBT Pharma Inc., and as a board observer for LifeSprout, Inc., Torigen Pharmaceuticals, and WATT Fuel Cell Corp. He is also an advisory board member for the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University and the Irving Medical Center at Columbia University.

Neil holds a BES from Johns Hopkins University and MS in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.