Conrad Hollomon serves as Program Manager for Commercialization in the Office of Investment and Innovation at the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), where he helps strengthen the pathways that move scientific and technological breakthroughs from laboratory and prototype stages, to government missions and commercial markets. His work connects founders, investors, research institutions, federal agencies, and regional innovation organizations to expand the national innovation network. He focuses on the practical systems behind technology transition - venture formation, capital access, market discovery, partnerships, and commercialization support for startups developing critical and emerging technologies. His SBA role builds on a career focused on the difficult gap between technical invention and scaled deployment.
Prior to federal service, he spent roughly 15 years across venture capital, startups, technical product work, and innovation program design. At The Engine, an investment fund spun out of MIT for emerging science and technology ventures, he developed public-private partnerships for accelerating lab-to-market transitions. At Techstars, he served as Program Director for the U.S. Air Force Accelerator, managing technology scouting, founder and company selection, accelerator operations, and program design at the intersection of venture investment and Air Force mission needs. He also served as a Senior Technical Program Manager on Unity Technologies’ artificial intelligence team. Earlier, as Executive Director of Operation Code, he helped scale programs that prepared veterans and military spouses for careers in software development.
A former U.S. Army infantry officer and Afghanistan veteran, Hollomon also advised the U.S. Senate on emerging technology, global competitiveness, national security, and veteran policy. He holds an MBA from Boston University, with a specialization in social impact and organizational behavior. He brings a mission-driven view of commercialization: technical capability matters, but it only creates national and economic value when capital, talent, customers, policy, and partnerships align to support their deployment at scale.