Isaac L. Gadsden has over 35 years experience as an executive skilled in new business development, sales and marketing management, and software and hardware sales. He has extensive international and multinational team leadership experience. Ike’s expertise includes business process management, supply chain management, and sales force productivity improvement as well as teaching and mentoring. In addition to his work with KSR, Ike is currently principal and Managing Director of Diamond State Ventures, LLC, a new business cultivator in Wilmington, Delaware, where he coaches and mentors clients and develops relationships with the investment community.

During his career in industry, Ike held a variety of staff and operational leadership assignments. His last corporate assignment was Vice president of Sales and Marketing for Imperial Pressroom Products, E.I. Dupont de Nemours. Other assignments included managing sales and marketing operations, strategic planning, market research, new business development and acquisition and divestitures. He has led organizations during operational and technological transitions in the US and European markets. Ike has experience in the textile fibers and imaging industries. He has worked for E.I. DuPont, Polaroid, CBS, and Eastman Kodak.

Ike has lead a small management consulting firm SAMPM, Inc. that focused on upgrading sales and marketing operations. He has also lectured and conducted seminars for the Baltimore Washington Venture Group at the Dingman Center at the University of Maryland, presented sales strategy programs for the alumni at the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania, taught marketing and operations management at Delaware State University and taught e-commerce business strategy at the University of Delaware Small Business Development Center.

Ike sits on of the Board of Directors of Wilmington Economic Development Corporation, the Executive Service Corp of the Delaware Valley, the Wilmington Chapter of Hampton University Alumni Association and the Harvard Business School Club of Philadelphia.

Ike received his BS in chemistry from Hampton University. He furthered his education at the University of Rochester in chemical engineered and subsequently earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.