Jackson Streeter

Dr. Streeter was the CEO and Executive Director of the Florida Technology Seed Capital Fund, a seed-stage venture fund investing in companies commercializing technologies developed from State of Florida Universities, Colleges, or Research Institutes. Since its inception, the fund has created over 50 companies with private investment matching Florida state funding at a 9:1 ratio and having over $1.2 billion in economic impact for the State of Florida.

Dr. Streeter served as the CEO of Banyan Biomarkers San Diego, CA. During his time, the company received over $110M in contracts and grants with the NIH and Department of Defense and raised $20M in private capital for the development of a first ever blood test for traumatic brain injury from technology developed at the McKnight Brain Institute at UF. The Banyan brain injury test received FDA clearance on 14 February 2018.

Prior to serving as CEO of Banyan Biomarkers, Dr. Streeter founded and served as CEO and CSO for PhotoThera, Inc. where he raised over $120 million in private capital and was responsible for the design and management of five U.S. and international clinical trials for the treatment of strokes. He was also the co-founder of American Veterinary Laser which was acquired in a private transaction.

Dr. Streeter is the inventor of over twenty patents and the author of multiple scientific publications. Dr. Streeter has served on the following boards and executive committees: Florida Research Consortium, Governor’s Life Science Task Force for the State of Florida, FBI counter-terrorism southeast working group, Walter H. Coulter Center Committee at the University of Miami, Department of Defense Grey Team in Afghanistan, Sid Martin Biotechnology Incubator Advisory Board, Cade Museum Board and the Gainesville Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.

Dr. Streeter served as an Officer in the U.S. Navy, completing a general surgery internship at Naval Regional Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia, and then primary Flight School at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida. During his military service, he was the first Naval Flight Surgeon selected as a TOPGUN staff instructor, served on several overseas deployments, and was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal and the Navy Commendation Medal. He earned his B.S. degree in Biology from the University of Nevada Reno and his M.D. from the University of Nevada School of Medicine.