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Monica Babine
Monica Babine is the co-director of Rural Bridges at Washington State University Extension’s Center to Bridge the Digital Divide. Since 2000, she has implemented programs to strengthen and diversify the economies of rural communities through the creation of information technology-enabled jobs. Prior to joining Washington State University, Ms. Babine provided consultation and training to public, private and non-profit employers interested in initiating or expanding telework efforts. Her vast involvement in telework includes experience as a teleworker, supervisor of teleworkers and manager of a telework program. Ms. Babine also worked at Qwest for more than14 years where she held positions in accounting, operator services, marketing, and public policy. She was actively involved in the Puget Sound Telecommuting Demonstration, Washington State Telework Coalition, Pacific Northwest Telework Advisory Council and the Society of Information Management Workforce and Education Executive Forum. Mr. Babine is on the Inland Northwest Partners board and a member of U.S. Senator Patty Murray’s Rural Telecommunications Working Group.
Rebecca Bagley
Rebecca Bagley is Deputy Secretary for the Technology Investment Office of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED). In addition to overseeing operations, she manages about $85 million in appropriations and $1.7 billion in investments for the office, which serves as a catalyst for growth and competitiveness for Pennsylvania companies and universities through technology-based economic development initiatives including funding, partnerships and support services. Major programs administered by the office include: Keystone Innovation Zones; the Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority including the Ben Franklin Technology Partners; the Tobacco Settlement Investment Board; Life Science Greenhouses; Venture Capital Investment Program; Industrial Resource Centers; and additional targeted technology investments. Additionally, Ms. Bagley is currently managing two of the Governor’s proposed initiatives: The Jonas Salk Legacy Fund with an investment of $500 million in biosciences and an $850 Million Energy Independence Strategy. She previously served as the Director of Venture Investment for DCED. Prior to her experience at DCED, Ms. Bagley worked for several investment banks in various capacities.
Jim Battin
Jim Battin is President of Strategic Consulting Group located in Columbus, Indiana. He is the Coordinator for the ‘Dream It Do It’ campaign, in a ten-county area of Southeast Indiana, encouraging young people and adults to consider manufacturing as a career choice. He is working closely with workforce development, economic development, education, and community leaders to develop a comprehensive, regional learning system that connects the residents of Southeast Indiana to better economic opportunities through education.
Prior to forming Strategic Consulting Group in 1998, Mr. Battin completed a 25-year career in Human Resources at Cummins Inc., with various responsibilities that included developing and implementing a Human Resource Audit system for 45 manufacturing plants worldwide to improve the effectiveness of HR processes and systems. The work for this company-wide effort of improvement resulted in Cummins being a finalist for the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award in 1997.
Phillip Battle
Phillip Battle is a policy analyst for SSTI, and a writer for the SSTI Weekly Digest. Prior to joining SSTI, he served as a student consultant for the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. As part of his master's report he prepared an overview of that program with recommendations based on the practices of other state high-tech venture funds. Mr. Battle has also worked as a graduate research assistant at the IC2 Institute in Austin, as a staff researcher and writer for the Central Texas High School Data Center, and as a member of the 2006 World Congress on Information Technology policy research team. He holds a M.P.Aff. from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
Dan Berglund
Dan Berglund is the president and CEO of SSTI, a non-profit organization designed to lead, support and strengthen efforts to improve state and regional economies through science, technology and innovation. SSTI is the most comprehensive resource available for those involved in technology-based economic development. Leading SSTI since its inception in 1996, Mr. Berglund has helped SSTI develop a nationwide network of practitioners and policymakers dedicated to improving the economy through science and technology. SSTI works with this network to assist states and communities as they build tech-based economies, conduct research on best practices and trends in tech-based economic development, and encourage cooperation among and between state and federal programs. Prior to joining SSTI, he worked as a private consultant, served as the primary author of Partnerships: A Compendium of State and Federal Cooperative Technology Programs and as the Director of Ohio's Thomas Edison Program and the Ohio Technology Transfer Organization (OTTO), Ohio's largest public/private economic development programs. Mr. Berglund holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science and a B.A. in History from Ohio University.
Walter (Jerry) Bird
Jerry Bird is the vice-president of Massachusetts Development Technology Corporation (MTDC), which is a quasi-public venture capital firm that addresses the "capital gap" for start-up and expansion of early-stage technology companies operating in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. MTDC has invested in many of Massachusetts' most promising new technology-based companies. Mr. Bird, who has more than 21 years of investing and financial expertise, is responsible for generating investment opportunities, identifying marketable technologies making new and follow-on investments. Before joining MTDC in 2005, he was President of Boston-based Claflin Capital Management, a firm he joined as a general partner in 1996. Prior to joining Claflin Capital Management, Mr. Bird spent 10 years at BankBoston in several varied capacities. He has served on the board of more than a dozen Massachusetts-based technology companies. Mr. Bird graduated with a B.A. degree from Dartmouth College in 1980 and received his M.B.A. from the Tuck School at Dartmouth in 1986.
Keith Boswell
Keith Boswell is a Team Leader for the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) where he manages the Security and Services Team through designing strategic marketing initiatives and oversees the team’s activities in support of the mission and goals of the VEDP. His main duties include expanding existing industries and attracting new business to the Commonwealth of Virginia, with a particular emphasis on the nanotechnology industry. Mr. Boswell currently leads the Distributed Services Initiative for VEDP, which seeks to find creative solutions for companies that reside in high-cost, labor-deficient communities. He was an early founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology Association and has served on the steering committee for the Virginia Nanotechnology Initiative. Mr. Boswell graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a B.S. in business administration and management and received his M.B.A. from the University of Richmond.
Philip Boudjouk
Philip Boudjouk is Vice President for Research, Creative Activities and Technology Transfer at North Dakota State University (NDSU), where he also has been active as a teacher, researcher, and member of the Chemistry Department faculty since 1973. Immediately prior to his appointment at NDSU in 2000, Dr. Boudjouk held a Teaching and Research Fellowship at the University of California-Davis for two years. For eight years he served as Project Director for the North Dakota Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). He currently serves as chair of the national Board of Directors for the EPSCoR Coalition, made up of representatives from 19 states and Puerto Rico. In addition to receiving numerous awards for teaching and research, he has published over 127 manuscripts in both Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, holds numerous patents, and has received funding from a wide range of federal and state organizations. His current research interests are in anti-corrosion materials and conductive polymers containing silicon. Dr. Boudjouk holds a Bachelor’s degree from St. John’s University in New York and a Doctorate in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Bill Canis
Bill Canis is the Acting President of The Manufacturing Institute, which is the research, education and workforce arm of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and whose mission is to strengthen the manufacturing economy by increasing the knowledge and respect for the industry and by creating and implementing human capital strategies. He was appointed to the position by NAM president John Engler in April 2007. Mr. Canis manages the institute and directs efforts to educate policymakers, the public and the media about manufacturing’s important contributions to the U.S. economy. The institute’s Center for Workforce Success directs a wide range of initiatives that are creating a larger talent pool of skilled manufacturing employees. Mr. Canis joined the institute as executive director in 1998. Prior to his position at the institute, Mr. Canis was Vice President, International Government Affairs for American Express at the company’s New York Headquarters. Earlier, he was the chief Washington representative for Caterpillar and also served as a staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. He holds bachelors and masters degrees in international economics from Johns Hopkins University.
Dean Chang
Dean Chang oversees all the MTECH Ventures and Education programs at the University of Maryland, including: the TAP venture incubator, VentureAccelerator, the Technology Start-Up Boot Camp, the $50K Business Plan Competition, the Hinman CEOs Program, and other educational entrepreneurship offerings at the university. Dr. Chang previously held the dual roles of Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Gaming Business at Immersion Corporation, a company he helped guide over ten years from a four-person, venture-backed, Silicon Valley startup to a $200M publicly traded technology leader. As general manager, he was responsible for strategic direction, sales and marketing, and operations of licensing Immersion's vast patent portfolio to the video game industry. Dr. Chang has written articles for Computer Magazine, BusinessWeek Online, and GameDAILY BIZ and holds 30 U.S. and international patents in the field of haptics. He holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from MIT, as well as both an M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. He also holds an M.B.A. with honors, and received the highest distinction of Palmer Scholar from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Lee Cheatham
Lee Cheatham was appointed Executive Director of Washington Technology Center, where during his tenure, WTC has expanded its interactions with companies and communities within Washington state to encourage technology development and job growth. Prior to his position at WTC, Dr. Cheatham founded the Strategic Projects Group, a startup software and information services company. In addition, he has held several senior management positions including a 17-year commitment with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Dr. Cheatham’s global experience has concentrated on building market-driven interactions under a variety of commercial, government and university sponsorships, with each of his assignments focused on the impact of innovation and collaboration. Dr. Cheatham received a B.S. from Oregon State University and a M.S. from Washington State University, both in electrical engineering; he also has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering with specialization in optical computing from Carnegie-Mellon University.
Brian Darmody
Brian Darmody serves as Special Assistant Vice Chancellor for Technology Development at the University System of Maryland, focusing on System partnerships in technology development, public policy
coordination, and projects involving the System, the Base Realignment and Closure Commission and the state of Maryland. Mr. Darmody also serves as Associate Vice President for Research and Economic Development at the University of Maryland, College Park, working on research park development, special projects, university/corporate relations, and technology commercialization. He serves on the boards of the Association of University Research Parks, the All Hazards Consortium, which is a regional homeland security
consortium in the mid-Atlantic, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), the Greater Baltimore Technology Council, the legislative committee of the Maryland Technology Council, and the City-University
Partnership, Inc., among other organizations. He previously worked for the U.S. Health Care Financing Commission and the U.S. House of Representatives, Office of Congresswoman Spellman. Mr. Darmody holds a law degree and is a member of the Maryland bar.
Frank Dickson
Frank Dickson joined the Maryland Venture Fund in 2003, where he provides equity and debt financing to early-stage companies and concentrates on emerging technologies in software, advanced materials, and technology devices. Prior to joining the Maryland Venture Fund, Mr. Dickson worked in Business Development for two software start-up companies. He has more than15 years experience at Andersen Consulting (Accenture), Manugistics and other leading consulting firms focused on developing, designing, testing and selling enterprise solutions to manufacturing and service-based industries. Mr. Dickson is a member of MAVA and serves as an observer on the board of Bluefire Security, RNT, Coderyte and ADF Solutions. He has participated in several venture conferences and investor forums, including Capital Connection, Grubstake Investor Panel and Capital Access Network’s investor forums. Mr. Dickson has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University and a M.B.A. in Finance from Loyola College of Maryland.
Aimee Dobrzeniecki
Aimee Dobrzeniecki is the Deputy Director of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) at the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards of Technology (NIST), where she has responsibility for MEP state partnerships, communications, knowledge management, information technology, and performance management. She also coordinates budget, congressional, and administration correspondence issues for the MEP program, a nationwide network that assists manufacturers to increase their global competitiveness. Ms. Dobrzeniecki facilitates the exchange of information among MEP network partners and stakeholders, supports strategic management and systems operations, and acts as a liaison with other government agencies and regional economic development organizations. Before working for the Department of Commerce, she acquired manufacturing technology experience through her work in ground weapon systems development for the Department of the Army Tank-Automotive Command in Warren, Michigan; gear research and manufacturing for the IIT Research Institute in Chicago, Illinois; and beginning in 1994, working in the MEP system as a field agent at both the Chicago Manufacturing Center and the Manufacturers Resource Center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where she assisted dozens of small and medium sized manufacturers. Ms. Dobrzeniecki received an E.M.B.A. from George Washington University and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan.
Monica Doss
Monica Doss has served since 1986 as President of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED), a non-profit organization founded in 1984 to stimulate the creation and expansion of high-growth entrepreneurial businesses in North Carolina. She is responsible for spearheading the direction, operation and overall management of the organization. During her 20-year tenure, CED has grown to become the largest entrepreneurial support organization in the U.S., with 4,000+ members representing 1,100 member companies and an annual budget of $2 million. Ms. Doss has received both local and national recognition as an industry leader, is a frequent speaker and coach on entrepreneurial development and building innovation-based economies and an active member in national and regional coalitions on entrepreneurship and innovation. Additionally, she is in numerous and diverse professional and educational organizations, including as a current board member of Southeast BIO, NCIDEA, the North Carolina Bioscience Fund and a chairman and CEO of the Entrepreneurial Education Foundation based in Kansas City. She co-chaired the Entrepreneurship and Technology Committee for the Research Triangle Region's Future Cluster Competitiveness Initiative and served on the North Carolina Nanotechnology Planning Committee.
John Emond
John Emond is a collaboration program coordinator within the Innovative Partnership Program office at NASA Headquarters, with a primary focus on fostering interagency collaboration in technology development and application. Additionally, he serves as the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Coordinator. In his early career, Mr. Emond was in the social service field primarily engaged in youth work including service as a Vista Volunteer. Through the University of Connecticut’s graduate program, he became a Presidential Management Intern at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center for two years and later became a contract specialist. He then joined NASA Headquarters Office of Commercial Programs as a policy analyst and held positions as a senior policy analyst and program manager at NASA Headquarters. Mr. Emond received a B.A. in History from Clark University a M.P.A. from the University of Connecticut.
Edward Feser
Edward Feser is Professor of Urban and Regional
Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches courses in state and
local economic development policy, economic
development strategy and implementation, and
methods of urban and regional analysis. Dr. Feser is
a specialist in regional growth modeling, state and
local technology policy, industry clusters and
industry cluster policy, and analytical methods for
economic development planning. His research has
been supported by the National Science Foundation,
the World Bank, the U.S. Economic Development
Administration, the Appalachian Regional
Commission, and the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, as well as multiple state and local
agencies. Dr. Feser previously served in government
as Assistant Secretary for Policy, Research and
Strategic Planning in the North Carolina Department
of Commerce. He works regularly with state and
local agencies, corporations, non-profit development
organizations, and planning firms on economic
development policy issues, strategy design, and
economic analysis. He is also centrally involved in
the development and operation of NEURUS – the
Network for European-U.S. Regional and Urban
Studies – a consortium of 10 universities in the U.S.,
Europe and Asia. He serves on the editorial boards
of several journals, including the Journal of the American Planning Association, Applied Research in
Economic Development, and Letters in Spatial
Resource Science. Dr. Feser holds a Ph.D. and M.R.P.
from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
and a B.A. from the University of San Francisco.
Michael A. Finney
Mike Finney is the President and CEO of Ann Arbor SPARK (SPARK), a public-private partnership whose mission is to advance innovation-based economic development in the greater Ann Arbor region. SPARK recently merged with the Washtenaw Development Council to form one integrated flagship economic development group to assist businesses at every stage, from those that are established to those working to successfully commercialize innovations. SPARK represents all communities in the Washtenaw County region of Michigan and collaborates with business, government, academic, and not-for-profit partners. Prior to taking the helm at SPARK, Mr. Finney served as president and CEO of Greater Rochester Enterprise, Rochester, New York; Vice President for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation; Senior Vice President and General Manager of Thomson Saginaw; and as Assistant City Manager of Saginaw. He currently serves on the University of Michigan, Office of Technology Transfer National Advisory Council and the Life Sciences Institute National Advisory Council, and is a board member of the State Science and Technology Institute (SSTI) and the Michigan Venture Capital Association. He holds a M.A. from Central Michigan University and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Saginaw Valley State University.
Robin Gaster
Robin Gaster has been the lead researcher on the National Academy's recently published assessment of SBIR programs at the five major SBIR-awarding agencies (DoD, NIH, DoE, NASA, and NSF). He is also director of the Innovation Ecologies Regional Innovation Initiative, focused on developing tools for comparing the innovation capacity of regions. The initial phase of this project has been funded by the NIST ATP program. Dr. Gaster holds a Ph.D. from Berkeley and was on the faculty at the University of Virginia.
Angeline “Angie” Godwin
Angeline “Angie” Godwin has served since January 2005 as the President for The Area Development Partnership (ADP), a regional economic development organization and chamber of commerce in south central Mississippi. Prior to joining ADP, Dr. Godwin was the president of the research foundation and the vice president of research and economic development at The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In 2000, she was named the founding President/CEO of The Mississippi Technology Alliance, the state’s science and technology-based economic development organization. Dr. Godwin’s work in higher education included the presidency of Ashland Community College in Ashland, Kentucky, the dean of arts and sciences at Jackson State Community College in Jackson, Tennessee, and technology developer, academic faculty and program administrator roles at Michigan State University. She is a board member of the State Science and Technology Institute (SSTI) and participates in numerous civic and charitable organizations. Dr. Godwin holds a J.D. from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan; a Ph.D. and M.S. from The Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida; an M.A. from The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and a B.A. from Troy State University, Troy, Alabama.
Randall Goldsmith
Randy Goldsmith has written, trained, and practiced extensively nationally and internationally in technology-based economic development, commercialization and capital formation. His business principles are grounded in more than twenty years of corporate and small business experience as a founding entrepreneur and CEO in multiple settings. The lessons learned and the experiences gained in turning business ideas and opportunities into rewarding financial outcomes underlie the tools and methods used for Dr. Goldsmith’s model for technology commercialization. The model was originally developed for the NASA Regional Technology Transfer Centers and has been adopted by organizations, professional consultants and companies nationally and internationally. Much of his work has been devoted to building community infrastructure to support innovation-led economic development. Dr. Goldsmith emphasizes that the critical ingredients for a competitive local economy include building support for research, entrepreneurship, investment capital, workforce development, positive business environment and community quality of life. In addition to working with business startups, Dr. Goldsmith was instrumental in the design and management of several local, state, and regional nonprofit technology-based economic development organizations including the Texas Municipal Assistance Program, NASA Mid-Continent Regional Technology Transfer Center, Oklahoma Alliance for Manufacturing Excellence, Oklahoma Technology Development Corporation, and the San Antonio Technology Accelerator Initiative. He holds a Doctorate and Masters degrees in Urban Planning at Texas A&M University.
Ellen Hemmerly
Ellen Hemmerly is Executive Director and President of the UMBC Research Park Corporation and Special Assistant to the Vice President for Institutional Advancement at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). She is responsible for managing the development of a high technology research and technology park that includes an incubator and post-incubator facility, and ACTiVATE, an NSF funded regional technology commercialization program geared toward professional women. The technology park currently houses 50 companies including 15 incubator companies and 13 emerging technology companies, which have access to faculty research collaborations, student workers, specialized technology training programs, and a full range of business services including access to experienced entrepreneurs and funding. ACTiVATE is a NSF funded regional technology commercialization program geared toward professional women. Prior to joining UMBC, Ms. Hemmerly was a Vice President at the Baltimore Development Corporation and was Director of the Enterprise Development Fund, the City’s venture capital fund where she started the city’s first business incubator. Previously, she was an Associate with K.S. Sweet Associates, a real estate advisory and development firm, and TDH, a venture capital firm. In addition to serving on numerous boards, among them the Governor’s Workforce Investment Board, the Technology Leadership Consortium, and the Greater Baltimore Technology Council, in 2007 she was elected by The Daily Record as one of the Fifty Most Influential Marylanders. Ms. Hemmerly is a 2006 graduate of Leadership Maryland, has a B.S. in Mathematics from Moravian College and a M.B.A. from Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management.
Dennis Hoffman
Dennis Hoffman is a Professor of Economics at Arizona State University, an Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Programs in the W. P. Carey School of Business, Director of the Seidman Research Institute and Director of ASU’s Office of the University Economist. He has closely studied the regional economy in Arizona, which positions him for his current research interests that include defining and measuring the role of research universities in regional development, quantifying the value of education investments to the economic prosperity of a region, and measuring the impact of various fiscal initiatives on regional development. These current research interests align with Dr. Hoffman’s new administrative assignment as the faculty director of the newly designated Center for Competitiveness and Prosperity Research where he directs the Productivity and Prosperity Project. In addition to receiving teaching and research awards from ASU and publishing numerous academic articles and a book on macroeconomics and econometrics, Dr. Hoffman previously served as a visiting research scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in the summer of 1996 and in 1997 was named the Arizona Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from Michigan State University and a B.S. in Mathematics and Economics from Grand Valley State Colleges.
Roger Kilmer
Roger Kilmer is the Director of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), a program of the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). MEP is a nationwide network of resources located in all 50 states and Puerto Rico transforming manufacturers to compete globally, supporting greater supply chain integration and providing access to technology for improved productivity. By leveraging federal support through partnerships with industry, state and local organizations, MEP. provides access to a wide range of resources meeting the critical and often unique needs of America’s manufacturers. Previously, Mr. Kilmer has been the MEP Deputy Director, the Deputy Division Chief of Robot Systems in the NIST Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory, and Group Leader of Robot Systems Integration, managing research and development programs with manufacturing and military applications. Mr. Kilmer holds a M.S. and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.
Kei Koizumi
Kei Koizumi is the principal budget analyst, editor, and writer for the annual AAAS reports on federal R&D and for the continually updated analyses of federal R&D on the AAAS R&D web site. He is known as a leading authority on the federal budget, federal support for research and development, science policy issues, and R&D funding data. Mr. Koizumi is widely quoted in the general and trade press on federal science funding issues and speaks on R&D funding trends and federal budget policy toward R&D to numerous public groups and seminars. He received his M.A. from the Center for International Science, Technology, and Public Policy program at the George Washington University and received his B.A. from Boston University in Political Science and Economics.
Iryna Lendel
Iryna Lendel is a Research Associate in the Center for Economic Development in the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the Institute of Regional Economy of the National Academy of Science in Ukraine (1995) and is completing her second Ph.D. at Cleveland State Universitys Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs in Urban Studies and Public Administration, with a major in Economic Development.
Dr. Lendel's primary research interests are technology-based regional economic development, industry clusters, the role of universities in the regional economies, the economics of university products, and regional strategies. Her current dissertation examines the set of university products and their influence on regional economies. She is also conducting research on a comparison of metropolitan regions across the U.S.
Terry Lynch
Terry Lynch’s responsibilities in the Office of Technology Partnerships at NIST include commercial licensing of NIST technologies, Cooperative Research and Development Agreements, and establishing productive relationships with U.S. industry. Mr. Lynch serves on the Board of the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer and represents NIST at the Interagency Working Group on Technology Transfer and the ANSI Intellectual Property and Patent Committees. Prior to joining NIST, he held a variety of positions in industry in research, engineering, business development and corporate venture capital. Current professional memberships include Federal Laboratory Consortium, Association of University Technology Managers, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Mr. Lynch holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a M.B.A.
Ken Malone
Ken Malone is the founding Director of the Trent Lott National Center of Excellence for Economic Development & Entrepreneurship at The University of Southern Mississippi where he has assembled a team of academics and practitioners focused on innovation-based economic development. He has led a range of university-based economic development projects including a research park, two business incubators, downtown renewal, and technology transfer. Dr. Malone maintains active research in technology commercialization and started the technology commercialization minor available for all graduate students in the sciences at Southern Mississippi. Additionally, he is co-founder and CFO of Ablitech Inc, an early-stage coronary stent company. He also served as Chief Operating Officer of The University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast. Prior to joining Southern Miss, Dr. Malone was the Director of Strategic Planning & Finance for a global specialty chemical company where he also held leadership positions in marketing, research, manufacturing, and development. He serves on several regional economic development boards and working groups. He has a B.S. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Miami and a Ph.D. in Polymer Science from Southern Mississippi.
Heike Mayer
Heike (pronounced Hi-ka) Mayer is an assistant professor in the Urban Affairs and Planning program at Virginia Tech’s Alexandria Center. Her research interests focus on the factors shaping the economic competitiveness of cities and regions, with particular examination of the internal strengths a city or a region has to develop its economy, leading to so-called endogenous development. Dr. Heike focuses on three themes, including knowledge regions, entrepreneurship and place-making and competitiveness in small towns, with each addressing certain aspects of the endogenous potential. Her research has been funded by a variety of institutions such as the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Kauffman Foundation, The Brookings Institution, the Small Business Administration and the Virginia Economic Development Partnership and her work has been published in numerous national journals. Dr. Heike is a native of Germany where she studied at the University of Konstanz. She holds a Master’s degree and Ph.D. in Urban Studies from Portland State University.
Kevin O’Sullivan
Kevin O’Sullivan is the President and CEO of Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives, a private economic development organization that promotes the growth and expansion of the Biotechnology, Medical Device and Bioinformatics industry. MBI operates three life science incubator facilities in Worcester – currently home to eighteen companies and over 80 employees, providing cost effective laboratory space and high quality business development services. He previously served as Vice President and Director of Marketing at the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce and the City of Worcester where he developed and implemented a comprehensive marketing plan and was charged with the opening of the new Worcester Convention Center facility. Mr. O’Sullivan was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1986-1994 when he championed the biomedical industry and was a co sponsor in enacting the Emerging Technology Fund, Investment Tax Credit, and Tax Increment Financing legislation. He served on the Worcester Business Development Corporation and was part of the development team that created the highly successful Massachusetts Biotechnology Research Park. Mr. O’Sullivan is the current Chair of the City of Worcester’s License Commission and is involved in many civic and community activities.
Belinda Padilla
Belinda Padilla is currently the Program Manager of the Development Office within Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) Technology Transfer Division, where her group is responsible for the Laboratory’s entrepreneurial programs and stimulating the development of new businesses based on Laboratory technology and expertise, particularly in Northern New Mexico. The office also supports the identification, packaging and marketing of technologies available for licensing or strategic collaborations. Ms. Padilla has been at LANL for 14 years, working within a wide variety of programs to facilitate technology commercialization, including commercialization and entrepreneurship training, networking and education events, business consulting and technology maturation programs. She established the M.B.A. internship program at LANL for students interested in technology commercialization and entrepreneurship and spearheaded the creation and implementation of a number of LANL, Los Alamos National Security LLC, and state-sponsored programs designed to stimulate regional economic development with an emphasis on assisting small and start-up businesses. Additionally, she developed a Visiting Entrepreneur program at LANL and is currently recruiting for LANL’s new, two-year Entrepreneurial Postdoc program that she established within the Technology Transfer Division. She received Distinguished Performance Awards from the Laboratory Director in 1996 and 1998. Ms. Padilla, who is active in local and national organizations, earned a B.B.A. in Marketing and Executive M.B.A. from the University of New Mexico.
Erik Pages
Erik Pages is the President of EntreWorks Consulting, an economic development consulting and policy development firm focused on helping communities and organizations achieve their entrepreneurial potential. EntreWorks works with a diverse base of clients including state and local governments, Chambers of Commerce, business leaders, educational institutions, and non-profits. These customers all share a commitment to innovative economic development strategies that build wealth and build communities. Since its founding, EntreWorks has worked with customers in twenty-eight states and overseas. Previously, Dr. Pages served as Policy Director for the National Commission on Entrepreneurship (NCOE), where he directed the Commission's research and policy operations. Before joining NCOE, he served as Vice President for Policy and Programs at Business Executives for National Security. Additionally, he has held several positions in government, most recently as the first Director of the Office of Economic Conversion Information (OECI) at the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA). He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness, the RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship, and serves on the Arlington County (VA) Economic Development Commission. He received his Ph.D. from Georgetown University and holds degrees from Dickinson College and the University of Pittsburgh.
Jerry Paytas
Jerry Paytas is the Director of Research for the Economic Architecture practice. Prior to joining GSP, Dr. Paytas led the creation of an economic development strategy for the Washington County Industrial Development Corporation, Drivers and Strivers: An Analysis of Washington County Industry Assets. As the Director of the Carnegie Mellon Center for Economic Development, he was also the project manager for the Southwestern Pennsylvania Industry Cluster Analysis, a regional strategy to support the development of Information Technology, Manufacturing and Life Sciences in the region. Additionally, he managed the Regional Technology Policy Group and Who Does What initiatives that promoted communication and coordination among the major regional development organizations. As the Manager of Business Services at the Ben Franklin Technology Center, Dr. Paytas managed a $1.5 million annual business service program, reviewed more than 150 technology and economic development proposals and created programs for business finance and marketing services. He also created successful partnerships for delivering economic development services, such as the Western Pennsylvania Export Consortium and the Business and Entrepreneur Service and Training (BEST) Network. In six years, the BEST Network invested $3.4 million that serviced more than 1,300 clients, leveraged more than $280 million in loans and grants, started nearly 70 new firms and created more than 1,000 new, high-quality jobs. Dr. Paytas also teaches Urban and Regional Economic Development at the Carnegie Mellon Heinz School of Public Policy and Management.
Walter Plosila
Walter Plosila, who has extensive experience in the public, private and non-profit sectors, is Vice President, Technology Partnership Practice, for Battelle. In recent years the Practice has worked with a number of universities, regional business organizations as well as states, in the development and design of technology, biosciences and information-tech strategies, as well as such areas as research park conceptualization, research core competencies, cluster analysis, and successful program design and implementation. Among the Practice’s efforts include Arizona’s Biosciences Roadmap; Central Indiana’s cluster identification and implementation; Connecticut’s workforce development programs; Ohio’s Third Frontier design; and St. Louis’s plant and life sciences strategy. Previously, Dr. Plosila served as Executive Director of the North Carolina Alliance for Competitive Technologies, President of the non-profit Suburban Maryland Technology Council (now Technology Council of Maryland), and Deputy Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Commerce and Director of the Pennsylvania Governor’s Office of Policy and Planning. While in Pennsylvania, Dr. Plosila developed and initiated one of the country’s most comprehensive technology and manufacturing agendas that included the establishment of the Ben Franklin Partnership Programs for seed capital, incubators, networks, and business-higher education partnerships. Dr. Plosila has published numerous papers and articles in the areas of economic and technology development, entrepreneurship, and strategic management. Additionally, he received the Founders’ Award from the National Small Business Incubator Association and the Tibbetts Award from the U.S. Small Business Administration. He is a speaker worldwide on technology innovation and manufacturing modernization. Dr. Plosila has a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, from which he also received a Distinguished Service Award, an M.A. from Pennsylvania State University, and a B.A. from Beloit College.
James Poulos III
James Poulos is Vice President of Technology Transfer and Commercialization at Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) and oversees TEDCO’s funding programs to the state’s federal labs and universities. Previously, Mr. Poulos was the Executive Director of the Office of Technology Commercialization at the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to becoming the Acting Executive Director of the university’s Office of Technology Liaiaon (OTL) in June 1999, he was Associate Director for technology management. During Mr. Poulos’ tenure at OTL, more than 30 university spin-off companies were created and over 200 license agreements were negotiated with commercial entities both inside and outside the state. Additionally, his career in patent law included writing more than 150 patent applications, resulting in over 90% issued U.S. patents He has taken graduate courses in the fields of patent law at George Washington University, molecular biology at the University of Maryland, College Park and life sciences. He previously was an adjunct faculty member of the University of Baltimore Merrick School of Business where he provided expertise as a patent attorney to the creation of the university’s Lab-to-Market curriculum. Mr. Poulos, who is a member of numerous state and national associations, received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Maryland, College Park, studied law for one year at Loyola School of Law in New Orleans and received a J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 1984.
Catherine Renault
Catherine Renault serves as the Director, Office of Innovation in the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development and as Science Advisor to the Governor. The Office of Innovation oversees and evaluates all programs that receive state funding for research and development, coordinates efforts between and among the state’s educational, non-profit and for profit research-intensive organizations and develops and implements a science and technology plan for the state consistent with Maine’s overall economic development strategy. The office also manages the budgets for the Maine Technology Institute and the Technology Centers as well as the annual Comprehensive R&D Evaluation. Dr. Renault comes to Maine from RTI International in Durham, N.C. where she consulted with a wide variety of states and regions about technology-based economic development. Her previous state experience was as Managing Director of Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology where she was responsible for entrepreneurship and access to capital policy as well as statewide technology transfer initiatives. She also spent ten years in the private sector including AT&T and Data General. Dr. Renault received her undergraduate degree from Harvard, her M.B.A. from the University of Virginia and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Robin Roberts
Robin Roberts is Executive Vice President of Economic Development for the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber, and leads the 10-county region in international and domestic business recruitment, and Oklahoma City in expansion and retention, research and strategy development. Ms. Roberts has over a decade of public service in the economic development and public policy arena. Prior to assuming the position in Oklahoma City, she served as a Regional Coordinator for the Oregon Governor’s Office, focusing on developing cooperation between local, community and state government on economic development projects in the areas of transportation, land use, housing, and environmental issues. She spent several years in the private sector before entering public service in various executive positions in economic development for Portland, Central Oregon and the Oregon Economic and Community Development Department. Ms. Roberts will become Board Chair in 2008 for the International Economic Development Council. Additionally, she is the co-author of “Community Wisdom”, a humorous look at economic and community development. Ms. Roberts holds a B.S. in Education from Oregon State University and a M.S. in Educational Administration from Portland State University. She also attended OU/EDI and the Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government.
Horace Robertson
Horace Robertson currently is the Secretary/Treasurer for The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education, where he works with a program networking with organizations that have interest in enhancing entrepreneurship education in the education system of America. Previously, Mr. Robertson was with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction for 35 years where he worked with various groups of Career-Technical Education professionals to improve student performance as they prepare for their chosen careers. He holds Bachelor and Master degrees from East Carolina University, and has been a Certified Public Manager since 1983.
Greg Rutherford
Greg Rutherford began his tenure as President of York Technical College in February 2007. Prior to joining the College, Dr. Rutherford worked in the community college system in North Carolina for 19 years, most recently as Vice President for Economic and Workforce Development at Haywood Community College in Clyde and previously at A-B Technical Community College in Asheville. During his career, he has led associate degree programs as well as customized training for business and industry. Dr. Rutherford serves on numerous boards, including the York County Economic Development Board, the advisory council for the Rock Hill Economic Development Corporation, the York County Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Government Relations Taskforce and the Regional Chamber’s Board of Advisors. He is currently providing leadership for developing a county-wide entrepreneurship effort that will include a feasibility study for a business incubator program. Dr. Rutherford received his B.S. in Management from the University of North Carolina-Asheville, a M.B.A. from Western Carolina University and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.
Elmer Salazar
Elmer Salazar is currently a Project Leader in the Development Office of the Technology Transfer Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He is responsible for building and maintaining effective partnerships with regional and state-based business, political, and educational leaders that will lead to the development of a high-technology business infrastructure (managerial expertise, financing, telecommunications, water, waste water, power, etc.) within the state, ensuring the development of a diverse high-tech economic base. With more than 30 years of experience in community and economic development in New Mexico, Mr. Salazar also consults with non-technology based entities across the State of New Mexico and has worked to develop new relationships with foreign companies from Taiwan, Japan, Mexico and Germany either interested in LANL technology or in having a business presence in New Mexico. He has been a senior policy advisor to the Governor of New Mexico for business and economic development and continues to interact with state representatives on new state initiatives that encourage growth and diversification of the state's economy. During 2001-2003, Mr. Salazar was on executive loan assignment from the LANL with the U.S. Department of Agriculture where he focused on rural development.
Marsha Schachtel
Marsha Schachtel is a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies, where she conducts research and provides technical assistance for Baltimore and Maryland organizations, coordinates the international urban fellows program, and co-teaches an introduction to urban policy class. Her current work focuses on technology-based economic development, fiscal issues, community development, and human development. Ms. Schachtel previously served as Director of Technology Development at the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, Executive Assistant for Economic Development to former Governor William Schaefer and to former Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke, and Assistant Director and Business Development Manager of the Greater Baltimore Committee. She has also been Deputy Director of the National Association of State Development Agencies and Education Manager of the National Council for Urban Economic Development, and continues to play an advisory role in state science and technology organizations. Additionally, she previously chaired the Advisory Committee of NIST’s Advanced Technology Program. Some recent and current projects of Ms. Schachtel’s include: Technology Optimization Strategy for Harford County, Genealogy of Maryland Technology Entrepreneurs (four sectors), and a white paper on state-federal innovation partnerships for the National Governors Association. Ms. Schachtel holds a B.A. from Brown University and a M.S. from The Johns Hopkins University.
Stuart Schulman
Stuart Schulman is the Executive Director of the Economic and Workforce Development Center at Kingsborough Community College where he organizes and directs college-wide efforts in collaboration with the President’s office to develop new sponsorships and financial outreach initiatives, including securing institution resources/grants and funding sources. The Center’s proposal, under the leadership of Dr. Schulman, Project Welcome: Responding to Job Opportunities In NYC’s Hospitality Industry, was one of the U.S. Department of Labor award winners and the only winning submission in CUNY, New York State and in Hospitality and Tourism. Dr. Schulman is also the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Virtual Enterprise (IVE), a special initiative of the City University of New York (CUNY). He holds a Doctorate degree in Education.
Patricia Scruggs
Patricia Scruggs is president of Scruggs & Associates LLC, and brings more than 25 years of experience in economic development including activities in the areas of strategic planning, economic research, industry cluster analysis, entrepreneurship and workforce development. Since founding the company in 1993, Ms. Scruggs has led the development of over 50 economic plans and innovation strategies for regional and state organizations and governments across the nation. She recently served as the State of Oregon’s Innovation Economy Director managing the Oregon Council for Knowledge and Economic Development and designing economic strategies and state policies for Oregon’s governor and legislature. Ms. Scruggs has served as chair person for the Portland Regional Economic Development Board, chaired multiple job committees for redevelopment projects and was a founding member of the New Economy Coalition and the Oregon Creative Services Alliance. Her background directing state economic programs and her previous experience as an engineer and senior consultant in technology companies brings a practitioner’s approach to her projects.
Rick Shindell
Rick Shindell is president of Zyn Systems and a long-time SBIR advocate supporting small businesses, federal agencies, state organizations, intermediaries and advocacy groups. He created and manages Zyn’s SBIR Gateway, a cross-agency SBIR/STTR web site serving more than 5,000 users daily, who perform more than 45,000 SBIR topic searches per month. Mr. Shindell is the editor of the popular email newsletter, the SBIR Insider, which provides the SBIR community with news and critical information about the SBIR program, proposed legislation, successes, failures and controversies. This newsletter is read by thousands including small businesses, state intermediaries and providers, federal program managers, and many congressional staff members. In the federal technology-transfer field, Mr. Shindell manages the support contract for the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Far West and Mid-Continent regional networks. He was honored in 2006 with a Tibbetts Award for outstanding contributions to the SBIR program.
Phillip A. Singerman
Phillip Singerman is General Partner and Managing Director with Toucan Capital, a $120 million venture capital fund (SBIC) focused on seed and early-stage life science and advanced technology investments. Before joining Toucan Capital in January 2006, Dr. Singerman served as the founding Executive Director of the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO), a state-sponsored technology transfer and commercialization agency. During his six-year tenure, TEDCO garnered a national reputation for successfully investing public funds in technology start-ups. Dr. Singerman, who has thirty years of experience in technology commercialization and economic development, also served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development in the Clinton Administration and as President/CEO of the Ben Franklin Technology Center of Southeastern Pennsylvania. Additionally, he spent two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia, South America. Dr. Singerman has served on numerous technology commercialization and economic development boards and currently is a board member of the Tech Council of Maryland and the State Science and Technology Institute, among others. He holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and a Masters and Ph.D. from Yale University.
Mark Skinner
Mark Skinner is Vice President of SSTI and editor of the SSTI Weekly Digest, the weekly electronic newsletter for the TBED community. Mr. Skinner began his 22-year career in TBED with the Ohio Department of Development in1985, first as a Technology Center Liaison for Ohio’s Thomas Edison Program and later as the manager of Ohio's SBIR Program for six years. Skinner holds a B.A. in Urban and Regional Planning and Public Administration from Miami University of Ohio.
John Slanina
John Slanina is a Policy Analyst for SSTI, where his duties include the research and preparation of reports, articles and papers on technology-based economic development issues. Prior to joining SSTI, Mr. Slanina was a Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellow at the National Academies in Washington D.C., as well as a research assistant at the Delft Institute of Technology in the Netherlands. He attained his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, performing research in microfabrication and biosensor design. He recently attained his Master’s degree in Public Policy from Georgia Tech, where his research included innovation bibliometrics and the incorporation of innovations in the manufacturing sector.
Donald Smith
Don Smith was named University Director of Economic Development for both the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University in January 2002, the first such joint economic development position between two independent universities in the U.S. Dr. Smith has extensive economic development experience spanning national, state, regional, local and academic organizations, including RAND, the Pennsylvania Department of Commerce and the Carnegie Mellon Center for Economic Development. He helped develop and served as initial President of the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse – a cluster development initiative around chip design. He then led the development of the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse and served as Interim CEO from February 2003 through the end of 2004. Dr. Smith has a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon’s H. John Heinz School of Public Policy and Management.
Sheri Stickley
Sheri Stickley is Chief Administrative Officer of the Oklahoma Department of Commerce. Before accepting the position with the Department of Commerce, Ms. Stickley was a Vice President of SSTI from 2005-2007. Prior to joining SSTI, Ms. Stickley was Interim Executive Director of the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST), Oklahoma’s state technology-based economic development agency, which she helped found in 1987. At OCAST, she conceived, designed and oversaw multiple, nationally-recognized initiatives to promote start-up and growth of research and technology-based businesses, including OCAST’s SBIR-related programs; the Oklahoma Technology Commercialization Center and OCAST Technology Business Finance Program, managed by i2E; and the Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance, Oklahoma’s affiliate in the national NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership program. Ms. Stickley is an appointee to the Governor’s Council on Science and Technology and she has served on national-level peer review panels and advisory committees, the boards of directors of i2E, the Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance, the Oklahoma Academy for State Goals, among other public and private boards and committees. Ms. Stickley holds a B.A. in Political Science from Oklahoma State University.
Tom Still
Tom Still is president of the Wisconsin Technology Council and its membership subsidiary, the Wisconsin Innovation Network, which has chapters in Madison, Milwaukee, Northeast Wisconsin, Central Wisconsin, the Chippewa Valley and the Lake Superior region. The Tech Council is the independent, non-profit science and technology advisor to the Governor and the Legislature. Its work centers on policy formation, economic development and network creation. Mr. Still has served on numerous boards for civic and business groups, among them the Industrial Advisory Board to the UW-Madison College of Engineering, the Madison Economic Development Commission, the Dane County Economic Strategies Group and the Governor’s Economic Growth Council. He is the former associate editor of the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison and continues to write a weekly column, Inside Wisconsin. Mr. Still recently co-authored Hands-On Environmentalism and is a lecturer in the UW-Madison Department of Life Sciences Communication.
Phil Weilerstein
Phil Weilerstein is Executive Director of the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), which fosters invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship in higher education as a way of creating innovative, commercially viable, and socially beneficial businesses and employment opportunities in the United State. He began his career as an entrepreneur while a student at the University of Massachusetts as a founder of a start-up biotech company that eventually went public. Mr. Weilerstein’s tenure at the NCIIA is marked by his skill for network-building and expert leveraging of resources. He has applied his talent for seeking out gifted educators and other important contributors and put them to work for the betterment of invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship education in the U.S. and worldwide. He has grown the not-for-profit NCIIA from a grassroots group of enthusiastic faculty to a nationally known and in-demand knowledge base and resource center. NCIIA works with colleges and universities to build collaborative experiential learning programs to help nurture a new generation of innovators and entrepreneurs with strong technical and business skills and the tools and intention to make the world a better place. Mr. Weilerstein currently serves as Chairman of the American Society of Engineering Education Entrepreneurship division.
Bruce (Tab) Wilkins Jr.
Tab Wilkins joined the NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership as Senior Technology Advisor and Account Manager bringing more than 20 years of experience in helping manufacturers increase the productivity of their assets. In addition to helping form and direct two manufacturing assistance centers, he also worked with several states on their SBIR promotion programs helping companies raise millions of dollars in R&D funding. He has also created angel networks and managed university-industry cooperative programs supporting the formation of new successful technology-based companies and spin-out products. Mr. Wilkins holds a B.A. from St. Olaf College and a M.B.A. from Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Renée Winsky
Renée Winsky is the President and Executive Director of the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO), a public instrumentality established by the Maryland General Assembly to promote economic development through the development, transfer and commercialization of technology. Ms. Winsky brings more than 22 years of professional management experience to assist TEDCO to reach its goal to be the state’s leading source of funding for seed capital and entrepreneurial business assistance for technology programs. Prior to her appointment as President in February 2007, Ms. Winsky served as TEDCO’s Deputy Executive Director since 2000. Previously, she was Vice President of the Information Technology Services Division of the Information Technology Association of America and she worked with the National League of Cities and its affiliate, the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors. Additionally, Ms. Winsky has worked with the Maryland Municipal League and the City of Greenbelt. She has been a member of numerous boards and commissions, and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Tech Council of Maryland/MdBio and the Mid-Atlantic Institute for Space and Technology. Ms. Winsky is a graduate of the University of Maryland and a graduate of the Leadership Maryland Class of 2005.
Benjamin Wu
Ben Wu currently manages strategic efforts to continue Maryland's high-technology preeminence as a national leader in emerging technologies and in the development of technology-based economic development initiatives. He has played an active role in a number of key technology activities within the state, including the development of the Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission, investments in Nano-Bio research, the creation of the Maryland Life Sciences Advisory Board, and the formation of an on-going Innovation and Workforce Initiative with the National Governors Association Best Practices Academy, among others. Previously, Mr. Wu served as the U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology and as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Technology Policy in the current Bush Administration. He also was a congressional staff member for 13 years, where he directed the drafting of legislation commercializing federal intellectual property, promoting technology transfer and licensing, and advancing math and science education, among other responsibilities.
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