Peter A. Gold, Esq., formed TheGoldGroup, LLC, a consultancy to universities, colleges,
businesses, not-for-profits and others. The Firm visions and advances initiatives centered on
identifying and leveraging resources and assets, and accelerating innovation to marketplace
through creation of value driven public-private partnerships and other means.
Gold’s work in New Jersey, Arizona, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC. has included:
Gold was a founder and the first CEO of
Rutgers-Camden Technology Campus, a mixed use
business Incubator for new businesses and entrepreneurs located in Camden, NJ
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one of America’s
poorest cities. In two short years, Gold’s team created an environment that supported 35 newly
created businesses, 120 jobs with a payroll in excess of $6 million, and private sector and
venture investments of in excess of $6 million.
Gold’s was a senior partner, member of the Board and a business lawyer at
Blank Rome, LLP
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one of American’s largest law and government relations firms. He served as Associate Provost of Economic Initiatives and Senior Associate Dean at the
School of Business of Rutgers University-Camden, and is a former member of the Board of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. All of this experience has contributed to his network of global relationships and knowledge base in the following areas:
- Collapsing the time between innovation and marketplace
- Identifying and creating effective public-private partnerships
- Structuring relationships between and among universities
- University and business engagement and leveraging
- Federal, national, regional, state and foundation funding programs and mechanisms (US EDA, SBIR’s and others)
- Venture capital, angel capital, their requirements and how they work
- International, national and regional equity providers and lenders
- National defense, aerospace, transportation, automotive, energy businesses and stakeholders
- National and international professional resource associations (e.g. Association of University Research Parks, National Association of Business Incubators, State Science and Technology Institute)
Boards of Directors
Government/ Public Service (non compensated, former member)
Academic and University Experience Gold was a member of the adjunct faculty of the
Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania where he originated and taught a business course in the Management Department entitled “The Legal Aspects of Management.” He instructed graduate students on how to use the law to obtain business objectives.
Gold was Associate Provost for Economic Initiatives and Senior Associate Dean School of Business at
Rutgers University-Camden. As a member of the university’s leadership team he integrated the school’s activity with those of the region’s business, not-for-profit and government communities. He was instrumental in bringing millions of dollars of state, federal and private sector funding to the university.
