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Michelangelo of commercialization. Dinesh C. Patel, founding partner of vSpring Capital

Founding partner of vSpring Capital has his fingerprints on 50 to 100 companies

His eyes widen, his head tilts just a bit and he lets loose with a giant exhale as he leans back in his chair.

Dinesh C. Patel seems to have trouble grasping the enormity of the question.

Sure, he’s often called a businessman, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. But what about those other descriptions, such as "the father of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals in the Mountain West region"?

Terrence Chatwin, director of the Utah Engineering Experiment Station, said it just as succinctly this spring. "He is," Chatwin said, "the Michelangelo of commercialization."

"That’s one thing I’m not very good at, which is to say, ‘Jeez, I’m great at this or that,’ " Patel said during a chat at vSpring Capital, of which he is a founding partner and managing director. "I do what I do. I’m good at certain things and not good at certain things, and that’s how it is."

While quick to discount his contributions as the work of many people, Patel nonetheless has demonstrated he is good at helping companies — the ones he founded, funded or guided — get started.

By Brice Wallace
Deseret Morning News

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