Al Berning is well-known in Rochester as a former IBMer, a co-founder of the engineering company Pemstar and former CEO of Hardcore Computers/LiquidCool Solutions. In his current role as CEO of Ambient Clinical Analytics, the active entrepreneur is a prime illustration of how Mayo Clinic is seeking to establish Rochester as a research commercialization hotbed via Ambient, a spin-off created to market Mayo’s AWARE clinical decision dashboard. Ambient reached a milestone when Dutch multinational Philips announced it was rolling out the real-time patient information device as the IntelliSpace Critical Care Console; in 2017, look for the company to outgrow its space in the Mayo Business Accelerator.