Rahul Saxena serves as director of CREATE-X. Before joining Georgia Tech, he built a diverse career as a venture capitalist, startup CEO, entrepreneur, mechatronic design engineer, and published academic researcher. Saxena is a mechanical engineering Georgia Tech alumnus, earned his European Master’s degree in Fluid Mechanics from the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, and earned his MBA from Emory University. Saxena worked for Seraph Group, a venture capital firm for 10 years, evaluating and investing in companies while also holding the role of CEO in a company and serving on several boards of companies that went on to be acquired.