Mysty Rusk is the Director of the USD’s Innovation Center, The Brink SBDC. Rusk is an expert in innovation commercialization and angel investing. She has been involved from idea to IPO on numerous startups. Rusk has seen new materials and products that revolutionize industries and disrupt the world’s problems. She has evidence that with automation and purposeful invention, we can do things, faster, better and cheaper at the same time. Before coming to USD, Rusk served as the Associate State Director for Innovation and Tech Commercialization with the Central Cal SBDC.