DETROIT ? The first employee of SpaceForm, a start up based at Wayne State University?s TechTown, was named on Monday as recipient of WSU?s First Adams Entrepreneurship Fellowship.
Alain Piette is the first employee of a start-up called SpaceForm ? a spin out from Delphi Technologies, a Delphi Corporation subsidiary. The inventor of DRW, Anthony Ananthanarayanan, also is providing financial support through a $1.3million grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) provided through the Michigan Research Institute.
Piette gets a generous compensation package through the Fellowship that comes from The Community Foundation of Southeastern Michigan, an independent nonprofit organization governed by a board of 50 volunteer civic leaders. The Fellowship program is administrated by Terry Cross, Executive in Residence at the WSU School of Business Administration.
He was born in Belgium and received his undergraduate degree from The Royal Atheneum in Berchem, Belgium. In 2004, he received his MBA from Wayne State University’s School of Business Administration.
His work has been focused on consulting primarily for engineering and manufacturing entities with a strong concentration on sales, marketing, business relationships, process development, turnarounds, productivity improvement, and restructuring.
