Overview
Schedule
Speakers
|
Speakers
Mostafa Analoui, Ph.D.
Senior Director and Site Head for Groton/New London, Global Clinical Technology, Pfizer Global Research and Development
Mostafa Analoui, Ph.D., is the Senior Director and Site Head for Groton/New London, Global Clinical Technology at Pfizer Global Research and Development in Connecticut. He is also adjunct Professor of Radiology and Oral Pathology, Medicine at Indiana University Schools of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Analoui is actively involved in management and development of novel technologies and methodologies to support drug development. Dr. Analoui was previously the Director of Oral and Maxillofacial Imaging Research at Indiana University, and Associate professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical & Comp Engineering at Purdue University. In addition to industry leadership in biomedical filed, he lectures nationally and internationally. He also has served on variou s scientific and business advisory committees. Dr. Analoui has authored over 120 publications, including journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports.
Return to Top... |
Paul Ashton, Ph.D
CEO, pSivida Inc.
Paul Ashton, Ph.D. was the President, CEO, and a director of Control Delivery Systems (CDS). Dr. Ashton is a cofounder of CDS, which was launched in 1991, and has served as a member of the board of directors since that time. Dr. Ashton became CEO in 1996. Before cofounding CDS, Dr. Ashton was a visiting professor of ophthalmology at the University of Kentucky. Prior to this, he worked at Hoffman-LaRoche, and also served on the faculty of Tufts University for four years. Dr. Ashton received a B.Sc in chemistry from Durham University, England, and a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical science from the University of Wales.
Return to Top... |
Robert A. Beardsley, Ph.D.
President & Chief Executive Officer, Kereos
Dr. Beardsley has served as Kereos’ President and CEO, and as a board member, since January 2003. Prior to joining Kereos, Dr. Beardsley was acting CEO and a Board member of Metaphore Pharmaceuticals where he played key roles in two successful private equity fundraising rounds. In addition, he is the co-founder and former Managing Member of SImile Investors, LLC., and has held a number of positions in biotechnology and life science related firms, including bioStrategies Group and Vector Securities International. Dr. Beardsley currently serves on the boards of Collagenex Pharmaceuticals, BioSeek and PharmaMonde. He holds a Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering and a B.S.Ch.E. from the University of Iowa, along with an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Chicago.
Return to Top... |
John H. Belk
Boeing Technical Fellow, Phantom Works
John Belk is responsible for initiating and guiding much of the nanotechnology research in Boeing’s Phantom Works advanced R&D unit. He is a Boeing Technical Fellow as well as a member of the Technical Advisory Group for the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He is an author in the American Society of Materials’ Engineered Materials Handbook, served on the National Research Council committee on Implications of Emerging Micro and Nanotechnologies, was a member of the ANSI Nanotechnology Standards Panel, served as a reviewer for NASA’s nanotechnology roadmap, won a DoD Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement Award, and has been awarded eight U.S. patents. He is also on the advisory board of Differential Solutions, Inc.
Mr. Belk earned a B.S. in Physics from Clemson University, Masters degrees in Mechanical and Aeros pace Sciences from the University of Rochester and Engineering Management from Washington University, and studied Physiological Optics at the University of Missouri.
Return to Top... |
Matt Bell
Senior Investment Manager, Shell Technology Ventures
Matt Bell joined Shell in 1994 as a Production Technologist and has held technical positions in The Netherlands, Venezuela, Oman, and latterly the U.S.A. His technical expertise covers most aspects of well construction and completion, from design to wellsite operations, with a particular specialism in explosive perforating. Since moving to Houston in 2001 he has been involved in the specification, funding, development and deployment of new technology, culminating in his current role as Senior Investment Manager for Shell Technology Ventures. Matt is responsible for scouting and managing investments for upstream oil and gas, including the novel materials space. Matt earned his MEng degree in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London, and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the API subcommittee on perforating.
Return to Top... |
Keith Blakely
CEO, NanoDynamics, Inc.
Keith Blakely is the CEO of NanoDynamics, Inc., a leader in the commercialization of nanomaterials and nanotechnology-enabled components and systems. The company was formed in 2002 and has already introduced commercial products for the microelectronics, biomedical, chemical, semiconductor, defense, and alternative energy (fuel cell) markets. NanoDynamics has been featured in the USA Today, Business Week, and on CNBC’s Squawk Box and the CBS Evening News.
Blakely is a serial entrepreneur, having started his first company, Advanced Refractory Technologies, Inc. (ART), in Buffalo, NY in 1981 at the age of 24. For the next twenty years, he served as ART’s President & CEO, overseeing its growth from a 2 person operation to over 300 people with two international joint ventures and three domestic facilities. During his tenure, he established relationships w ith General Motors, Bekaert, Mitsubishi, Westinghouse, McDermott International, United Defense, and many others. The company was recognized as a worldwide leader in advanced materials when it was acquired by a subsidiary of Tyco International in June, 2001.
Following the sale of ART, Mr. Blakely established a technology management consulting organization – The InVentures Group – which has provided technology assessments, business planning, and technology commercialization to several organizations, from start-ups to multi-billion dollar firms. The InVentures Group was instrumental in helping the University of Buffalo establish STOR (the Office of Science, Technology, and Economic Outreach) in 2001 and served as the interim Director of Commercialization. More recently, he founded First Wave Technologies; one of the first private-sector companies in WNY focused on the development and commercialization of pre-incubator technology projects.
Blakely served as the President and COO of TechSys, Inc. , a NASDAQ listed company which developed new technologies for portable electric power generation, including solid oxide fuel cells, in collaboration with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Adelan Ltd., in Birmingham, England. Blakely also assisted, as the President and CEO in the commercial transition of another development stage nanomaterials company, AP Materials, Inc.
Mr. Blakely, who was elected a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society in 2001, received the R&D 100 Award in 1979 and 1985, was NYS Entrepreneur of the Year in 1995, has served on the boards of several public and private organizations, including the Buffalo-Niagara International Trade Council, the Western New York Technology Development Corporation, and the Buffalo Economic Renaissance Corporation.
Keith is a native of Western New York and a graduate of SUNY Buffalo.
Return to Top... |
Michael J. Bowman
Chairman of the Board and President, Delaware Technology Park
Chairman of the Board and President of the Delaware Technology Park, a collaboration of State, University of Delaware and high technology industries such as advanced materials, life sciences and information technology.
Managing Partner and Board member of several high growth technology based companies and Chairman of Engineering Advisory Council at University of Delaware and Chairman of Digital Delaware.
From 1987-1997 served as Vice President & General Manager in DuPont for Advanced Materials and Systems, a one billion-dollar global business unit with 2500 employees. Prior to that held various professional and managerial roles in technical, marketing and manufacturing at E.I. DuPont. Managed global product lines in polymers and fibers including TEFLON, KEVLAR, NOMEX and all of DuPont’s composite products and joint ventures.
Chemical Engineer from University of Cincinnati with MBA business/financial courses at Wharton and Columbia.
Residence in Wilmington, Delaware. Wife is Sandie and grown children are Jennifer and Christopher.
Return to Top... |
Vincent Caprio
Founder and Executive Director, New York NanoBusiness Alliance
Mr. Caprio is the founder and Executive Director New York NanoBusiness Alliance. Mr. Caprio is also Vice President of the national NanoBusiness Alliance and sits on the Alliance’s Board of Directors, as well as the Board of Directors of the Emerging Industries Alliance of New York State. Mr. Caprio is one of the foremost advocates for government funding of nanotechnology at both the state and Federal levels. Mr. Caprio has testified before the state legislatures of New York and Connecticut, and has organized the NanoBusiness Alliance’s public policy tour of Washington, D.C. for the past three years. Mr. Caprio is also a frequent speaker at domestic and international nanotechnology conferences, most recently addressing the Minatec Crossroads Conference in Grenoble, France and Quantum Dots 2006 in San Francisco, CA. Mr. Caprio has served as a consultant to leading nanotechnology research and advisory firm Lux Research, for its Lux Executive Summit in 2005 & 2006.
Mr. Caprio is a 20-year tradeshow and conference industry veteran with an impressive track record of launching events foc using on emerging technology markets. Mr. Caprio joined the NanoBusiness Alliance as event director in 2002, to steer the launch of the highly successful NanoBusiness event series as well as The Emerging Technologies Conference in association with MIT’s Technology Review Magazine. Prior to joining the NanoBusiness Alliance, Mr. Caprio was Event Director for Red Herring Conferences, producing the company’s Venture Market conferences and Annual Summit. His industry peers have formally recognized Mr. Caprio on several occasions for his talents in both tradeshow management and sales. Mr. Caprio was honored with two Pathfinder Awards for launching the New York Restaurant Show. In 2005, Mr. Caprio was nominated for the third year straight year for the prestigious Show Manager of the Year award. Mr. Caprio was named Sales Executive of the Year in 1994, while with Reed Exhibitions.
Mr. Caprio graduated from Villanova University in 1979 with a B.S in Accounting and completed a MBA from Northeastern in 1987. Mr . Caprio is a member of Villanova University’s Financial Club and serves as an active member of Villanova’s President Club and Leadership Council.
Return to Top... |
Richard G. Chleboski
Chief Financial Officer and Co-Founder, Evergreen Solar
Richard Chleboski has more than 15 years of experience in the solar power industry. He is Chief Financial Officer and co founder of Evergreen Solar, a manufacturer of solar power products. As CFO of Evergreen Solar, Mr. Chleboski has been instrumental in raising approximately $250 million of capital through public and private sources. In addition to this, Mr. Chleboski has been integral to the negotiation and formation of Evergreen’s strategic alliance with Q-Cells AG.
Prior to founding Evergreen Solar in 1994, Mr. Chleboski managed finance and planning at Mobil Solar Energy Corporation. Mr. Chleboski has a BS in electrical engineering from M.I.T. and an MBA from Boston College.
Return to Top... |
Dr. Jeffrey T. DePinto
Business Development Manager for Nanotechnology, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
Jeff DePinto is Business Development Manager for nanotechnology at Air Products and Chemicals. Jeff began his career with Air Products in 1995, and has worked in a variety of cross-functional positions including R&D, Sales, and Business Development.
Jeff's current responsibilities include new business development efforts for Air Products in the area of nanotechnology and development and execution of Air Products' strategy for nanotechnology. This includes the development of strategic alliances, as well as coordination of commercial development activities for Air Products' internal development efforts in nanotechnology.
Prior to Air Products, Jeff received his Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison followed by post-doctoral work at MIT in Synthe tic Organic Chemistry.
Return to Top... |
Martin L. Fransson, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, Characterization & Technology Evaluation, Headwater Technology Innovations Group
Martin L. Fransson, PhD, joined Headwaters in February 2005, where he has been in charge of coordinating and conducting characterization and evaluation studies of novel nanocatalysts and nanomaterials. The work has been carried out through collaborations with researchers and institutions at top universities such as Princeton University, Lehigh University, the Penn Regional Nanotechnology Facility at the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, and other contract labs. His responsibilities also include evaluating new markets and potential applications for technologies developed in-house at HTIG, as well as assessing outside emerging technologies for possible synergies and overlaps with HTIG products and processes. Martin holds a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Princeton University, and an MSc in Chemical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Return to Top... |
Peter Garcia
Chief Financial Officer, Nanosys, Inc.
Mr. Garcia joined Nanosys in July 2004 as their Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Garcia has over 20 years experience in various financial roles at biotechnology and high technology companies. Prior to Nanosys, Mr. Garcia was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Nuvelo Inc. (NASDAQ:NUVO), a biopharmaceutical company. During his three plus years at Nuvelo, he helped raise over $150 million, acquire development stage products for the company, and led the acquisition of Variagenics Inc.. Prior to Nuvelo, Mr. Garcia served as Chief Financial Officer for Novacept Inc., IntraBiotics Pharmaceuticals, and Dendreon Corporation. He was instrumental in raising over $500 million for these companies. His prior financial operations experience comes from Amgen Inc. and Teradata Corporation where he held a variety of financial management positions. Mr. G arcia has an M.B.A. from the Anderson School at University of California Los Angeles and a B.A. in Economics and Sociology from Stanford University.
Return to Top... |
Bob Gelfond
Founder and CEO, Magiq Technologies
Bob Gelfond is the Founder and CEO of Magiq Technologies - Bob provides the vision and leadership which have established MagiQ’s reputation as a next-generation technology leader with its pioneering work in commercializing quantum information processing.
Prior to founding MagiQ in 1999, Bob had extensive experience evaluating and investing in early-stage, high technology companies. An active angel, he was a first-round investor in Amazon.com, Vindigo, and CoAxia. Bob was also a first-round investor and sits on the Board of Directors of Actuality Systems, Inc. – manufacturers of spatial 3D displays.
Bob’s expertise and influence have made him a recognized leader in the industry. Bob is a frequent speaker at industry events, discussing a broad range of business strategy and quantum information topics. Bob has been widely quoted in media suc h as the CIO, ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, Technology Review, Light Reading, BBC, EETimes, Scientific American, MSNBC, PC Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, IEEE Spectrum, The New York Times, The Economist, Fortune, Financial Times, and BusinessWeek.
Before founding MagiQ, Bob enjoyed a very successful career on Wall St. He was a Managing Director at Millennium Partners, L.P. from 1992-1998, where he developed proprietary quantitative financial forecasting and risk models. His track record of profitable portfolio management earned him the highest documented Sharpe ratio (risk-adjusted returns) of any trader in the industry in 1995 and 1996.
In 1982, Bob founded Statistical Analysis Research and Development Co. where he developed revolutionary trading strategies for stock index futures and options.
Bob graduated from the University of Virginia with degrees in Mathematics and Economics in 1981.
Return to Top... |
Charles E. Harris
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer / Managing Director, Harris & Harris Group, Inc
Prior to 1984, Mr. Harris had an 18 year career in the investment industry, including serving as Chairman of Wood, Struthers and Winthrop Management Corp., the investment advisory subsidiary of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. He is a past Trustee, and current Co-Chairman of the President’s Council, of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), a research and education institution in molecular biology and genetics, and a current Trustee and Chairman of the audit committee of Nidus Center, a life sciences business incubator. He is a life-sustaining fellow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Shareholder of its Entrepreneurship Center. He was a member of the Advisory Panel for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. He was graduated from Princeton University (A.B.) and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business (M.B.A.).
Return to Top... |
Doug Jamison
Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director, Harris & Harris Group, Inc
Doug Jamison is President , Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director of Harris & Harris Group, Inc., a publicly traded venture capital company listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker TINY. Harris & Harris Group focuses solely in making initial investments in “tiny” technologies, which it defines as MEMS, Microsystems, and nanotechnology.
Prior to joining Harris & Harris Group, he was a Sr. Technology Manager in the University of Utah Technology Transfer Office. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College (B.A., 1992) and the University of Utah (M.S., 1999). He is a Director of Harris & Harris Enterprises, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Harris & Harris Group, Inc. He is a Director of four private Harris & Harris Group portfolio companies, Chlorogen, Inc., Ev olved Nanomaterial Sciences, Inc., NanoOpto Corporation and Nextreme Thermal Solutions. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Nanotechnology Law & Business; Co-Chair of the Advisory Board, Converging Technology Bar Association; a member of the Advisory Board of MIT’s Deshpande Center IdeaStream and a member of the Advisory Board, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Nanotechnology Venture Forum. His professional societies include the Association of University Technology Managers, for which he serves on its Survey Statistics and Metrics Committee.
Additionally, he has contributed significantly to many cultural, medial and educational organizations, both in the United States and Israel.
A graduate of Columbia University and its School of Law, Krueger is a recipient of its distinguished John Jay Award and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Hebrew University of J
Return to Top... |
Dr. Brian Johnston
Director, Kodak External Alliances, Eastman Kodak Company
Dr. Brian Johnston is employed at Eastman Kodak Company where he serves as Director, Kodak External Alliances. In this role, Brian works at the interface of a large corporation with small, early stage companies or university faculty to identify emerging technologies of future interest to Eastman Kodak. Brian engages Kodak scientists and business personnel with start-up entrepreneurs to bring technical and market perspectives to aid the growth of the small company. Brian also facilitates the negotiations that often times lead to longer-term relationships. Brian brings to this role over 20 years experience in new product development and commercialization. This has involved roles in basic research, manufacturing, product marketing and research laboratory management. Brian holds a Ph.D in organic chemistry from the University of Southampton, U.K. and an M.B.A. from the Simon School at the University of Rochester. He maintains an interest in a broad range of technologies, but has a focus on the media, materials and devices of use in printing and related technologies.
Return to Top... |
Amit Kumar, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer & President, Combimatrix
Dr. Kumar has been President and CEO since September 2001. He has been a Director since September 2000. Previously, Dr. Kumar was Vice President of Life Sciences of Acacia Research Corp. (NASDAQ: ACRI). From January 1999 to February 2000, Dr. Kumar was the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of Signature BioSciences, Inc., a life science company developing technology for advanced research in genomics, proteomics and drug discovery. From January 1998 to December 1999, Dr. Kumar was an Entrepreneur in Residence with Oak Investment Partners, a venture capital firm. From October 1996 to January 1998, Dr. Kumar was a Senior Manager at IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., a biotechnology company. From October 1993 to September 1996, Dr. Kumar was Head of Research & Development for Idetek Corporation, which was later acquired by Idexx Laborat ories, Inc. Dr. Kumar received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Occidental College. After joint studies at Stanford University and the California Institute of Technology, he received his Ph.D. from Caltech in 1991. He also completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University in 1993.
Return to Top... |
Cynthia A. Kuper
Chief Technology Officer, Micromem Technologies, Inc.
Dr. Kuper serves as Chief Technology Officer of Micromem Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: MMTIF) (“Micromem”), a publicly-held company engaged in the research and development of Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM). As Chief Technology Officer, Kuper maintains responsibility over Micromem’s relationships with prospective licensees and adopters of its MRAM technology, guides the technological development process and advises the company’s Board of Directors and senior management on technology and industry-related issues.
Prior to joining Toronto-based Micromem, Kuper established the first nanotechnology materials business in the Philadelphia region - Versilant Nanotechnologies (“Versilant”). As president and chief of research, Kuper developed enabling technologies for the commercial use of carbon nanotubes and commercialization of nano-scale related technologies. While at Versilant, Kuper won a NASA contract to produce high strength composite materials. For her work, Versilant was awarded an innovation award from the space agency.
A native of Philadelphia, Kuper received her B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Temple University, where she currently sits as an IT Fellow and adjunct professor, teaching a first of its kind course in business and new technologies at the Fox School of Business. She furthered her studies through a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratories of Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley at Rice University in Houston, where she worked through a cooperative agreement with NASA at the Johnson Space Center.
Dr. Kuper volunteers time speaking to raise awareness of nanotechnology to large corporations and public bodies such as Dow Corning, Wyle Labs, Army Research Labs, the Department of Defense and members of Congress, including testifying before the United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities as a subject expert in nanotechnology. Kuper and her work have been featured in Newsweek, Fortune, Wall Street Reporter and the German venture magazine, Borseonline. In addition, she was named one of the “76 Smartest Philadelphians” by Philadelphia Magazine as well as one of the 2001 Philadelphia Business Journal’s prestigious “40 under 40” dynamic up and coming leaders in Greater Philadelphia.
Return to Top... |
Scott Landstrom
President, SCI Consulting, Inc.
Scott Landstrom, currently President of SCI Consulting, Inc., has held numerous Senior Executive positions in his 25 year career in Semicondutor and Optoelectronic sectors. Most recently, he held the position of President of Volex, Inc., a $180 M, revenue supplier of optoelectronic and electronic components. With over 2400 employees, and 8 factories in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, Volex is one of the premier firms in it's field. Prior to that position, Mr. Landstrom ran worldwide Global Field Operations for Lam Research, Inc., a $2.2 Billion revenue semiconductor equipment supplier. In this role, Mr. Landstrom was responsible for worldwide Sales, Service and Field Engineering, managing an international work force ofover 2100 employees in over 35 countries. Prior to that, Mr. Landstrom held a number of Senior Executive roles at KLA-Tencor, a $2.5 B manufacturer of Yield Management systems for the semiconductor industry, including Vice President of Business Development. He also was elected Vice President of the worldwide photomask technical society during his time running worldwide Engineering for DuPont Photomasks, Inc. Mr. Landstrom has a B.S. degree in Physics from Syracuse University/SUNY and an MBA degree from Santa Clara University. His current assignment, having been retained by the CEO of Lam Research since March of this year, is to investigate strategic growth opportunities for Lam in emerging markets, primarily nanotechnology and solar sectors.
Return to Top... |
Robert K. Lifton
Chairman and CEO, Medis Technologies
Mr. Lifton holds an B.B.A. degree from the School of Business Administration, City University of New York He graduated Magna Cum Laude and was elected to the honorary society Beta Gamma Sigma. In 1951 he received an L.L.B. degree from Yale Law School, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and Note Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1952.
After serving as an officer in the Navy Supply Corps, Mr. Lifton was an associate attorney with Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays and Handler in 1955 and 1956. In 1956 he began extensive real estate activities with his present partner. In 1961 he organized, again with his partner, The Transcontinental Investing Corporation, with Mr. Lifton serving as its President until 1968 when it was listed on The New York Stock Exchange. He was then Chairman of the Board until i ts merger in 1972. He was Chairman of Security Mortgage Investors a publicly owned REIT.
Mr. Lifton is Chairman and CEO of Medis Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MDTL) In addition to a broad range of interests in the real estate, finance, and entertainment fields, Mr. Lifton was a founder, past President and Director of Preferred Health Care, Ltd. and president of Team America Inc., the U.S. National Soccer Team. He is also an officer and director of a number of other privately held companies. He is a Director and member of Executive and Investment Committees of Bank Leumi, USA and director of Leumi Investments, Inc.
From 1972 to 1978 he was Visiting Lecturer in Law at both the Columbia Law School and Yale Law School where he taught basic and advanced courses in real estate and real estate financing.
Mr. Lifton has written and lectured extensively on the subject of Real Estate. An article entitled “Real Estate in Trouble” was published in the July 1976 issue of The Business Lawyer, and he holds the Graham and Dodd Award for the best article in the Financial Analysts Journal for 1962. His book, “Creative Real Estate: Business Tax and Legal Strategies,” was published by Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich in March 1979 and was a book club selection for the Lawyer’s Book Club and the Executive’s Book Club. The book is now in its second edition.
Mr.Lifton is Chairman of the International Board of the U.S./Middle East Project of the Council on Foreign Relations, Chairman of the Public Health Research Institute and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Center for Public Health. He was President of the American Jewish Congress from 1988- 1994 and received its prestigious Stephen S.Wise award. Prior to that he was the Chairman of its Fund for Religious Liberty. He was President of Israel Policy Forum, which he helped found in 1993 and now is Chairman, Emeritus; a member of the executive committee of AIPAC; a Vice Chair of NJCRAC; on the Board of Directors of the Abraham Fund; Builders for Peace; the Tel-Aviv and Georgia O’Keefe Museums; The BESA Institute; The International Board of Bar Ilan University, and HIAS. He has served as a trustee of the NYU Real Estate Institute and as Chairman of the Oversight Committee of the NYU Masters Program in Real Estate. He was Chairman of the Parents Committee of Barnard College from 1977 to 1978 and was a member of the Committee of the Collection of Whitney Museum from 1978 to 1980. In 1984 he was presented with the Distinguished Achievement award by the Alumni of the Baruch School of Business Administration
In June 1993, Mr. Lifton received a degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Honoris Causa from Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Mr. Lifton is listed in “Who’s Who in America”.
Return to Top... |
Stephen B. Maebius
Partner, Foley & Lardner
Stephen B. Maebius is a partner in Foley’s Washington, D.C. office, and leader of the Nanotechnology Industry Team. He is a member of the Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical, Private Equity & Venture Capital and Public Affairs Practice Groups, as well as the Emerging Technologies and Life Sciences Industry Teams. He is also a member of the firm’s International Practice. Mr. Maebius serves on the advisory board of the NanoBusiness Alliance, he is an editor-in-chief of the Nanotechnology Law & Business journal. Prior to becoming a lawyer, he was a patent examiner in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office in the Biotechnology Group. He has also been a visiting associate professor of intellectual property law at Tokyo University's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, as well as a faculty adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School, where he taught comparative and international patent law. Mr. Maebius regularly operates in Japan, working with the firm's Tokyo office.
Mr. Maebius lectures on intellectual property topics in the U.S. and abroad and has authored a number of articles in the field. In addition, he testified at the 2002 FTC/DOJ hearings on the "Implications of Competition and Patent Law and Policy."
Mr. Maebius graduated from Cornell University (B.S. biology, 1989); and the George Washington University Law School (J.D., 1994). Mr. Maebius is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, the State of Virginia, before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court, and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Maebius has been rated AV, the highest performance rating possible, in Martindale-Hubbell’s peer review rating system.
Return to Top... |
Kevin D. Maloney
President, CEO, Co-Founder & Director, QuantumSphere Inc.
Mr. Maloney has a long-standing history of starting, building and scaling successful businesses. Mr. Maloney's seasoned investment, managerial, sales and marketing experience has significantly contributed to QuantumSphere's global exposure and rapid business growth over the last four years. Prior to co-founding QuantumSphere, Mr. Maloney was Vice President of Institutional Sales/Marketing at First American Corp.'s (NYSE: FAF) Capital Management Division, an institutional investment advisory firm that services endowment funds, foundations and pension plans. Previously, Mr. Maloney served as a Compliance Officer and Registered Principal at Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO). Mr. Maloney has been involved with five start-ups over the last 13 years. He has raised funds for numerous private equity placements and held NAS D Series 7, 26, 63 and 65 securities licenses. Mr. Maloney is an instructor for Loyola Marymount University's Nanotechnology Certificate Program and a frequent panelist at various industry conferences. Mr. Maloney has been awarded two U.S. patents and earned his B.A. from the University of California, Irvine and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University
Return to Top... |
F. Mark Modzelewski
Co-Founder, NanoBusiness Alliance and Vice President of Strategic Opportunities, NanoDynamics
F. Mark Modzelewski joined us in May 2005 as our Vice President of Strategic Opportunities. In 2004, he co-founded Lux Research, a research and advisory firm focusing on nanotechnology. In 2003, he founded The Benet Group, a private equity firm focused on developing early stage, bio-nanotechnology companies. In 2001, he founded the NanoBusiness Alliance, the first nanotechnology trade association, and continues to serve as its Executive Chairman. Prior to the formation of the Alliance, Mr. Modzelewski served as Vice President, Business Development for Opion, a surveillance and marketing technology company, Director of Niehaus, Ryan & Wong, New York, and an account leader at Golin/Harris International. He is currently a member of the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group to the Presi dent's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and previously served as a special assistant to Secretary Cisneros (HUD) and Secretary Glickman (USDA) during the Clinton administration. Mr. Modzelewski is a graduate of Boston University and received a J.D. from the University of Denver College of Law.
Return to Top... |
William Moffitt
President and Chief Executive Officer, NANOSPHERE, INC.
William Moffitt became president and CEO of Nanosphere, Inc. in July 2004. Prior to Nanosphere, Moffitt served as president and chief executive officer of point-of-care diagnostics manufacturer i-STAT Corp. At i-STAT, he led the development and commercialization from the company's early stage as an innovative developer, manufacturer and marketer of diagnostic products for point-of-care blood analysis, through its IPO in 1992, and its acquisition in 2003 by Abbott Laboratories, a global, broad-based health care company. Recognizing the market acceptance and potential of i-STAT's singular point-of-care blood diagnostic devises, Abbott Laboratories acquired the company in 2003 for $480 million (market valuation).
Prior to i-STAT, Moffitt held increasingly responsible executive positions from 1973 through 1989 with Baxter Hea lthcare Corporation, a $7 billion manufacturer and distributor of health care products and American Hospital Supply Corporation, a $3.5 billion diversified manufacturer and distributor of health care products, which Baxter acquired in 1985.
Moffitt holds a B.S. in Zoology from Duke University.
Return to Top... |
Edward K. Moran
Director of Product Innovation and Leader, Nanotech Industry Practice, Deloitte Services, LP
Edward K. Moran is director of Deloitte Service’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) group’s Tri-State Product Innovation Practice. He also heads up Deloitte Service's Nanotech Industry Practice, and is a leader of its Tri-State VC-backed company practice. Mr. Moran consults with TMT companies on strategy and operations, corporate finance, product innovation and commercialization, and competitive positioning. He also serves as a Deloitte global subject matter expert in technology, and is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer Selection Advisory Committee.
Mr. Moran is a member of the National Academies’ National Nanotech Initiative (NNI) Review Committee, which was chartered by Congress to evaluate the National Nanotechnology Initiative program. Specifical ly, Mr. Moran and the committee have been asked by Congress to evaluate the progress and effectiveness of the multi-agency NNI program, to recommend new or revised goals and metrics, to analyze the relative position of the United States in this growing field, and to analyze the impact of nanotechnology on the U.S. economy.
Mr. Moran is Executive Director of the New York State NanoBusiness Alliance, and sits on the Advisory Board of the NanoBusiness Alliance. Mr. Moran holds a J.D. from New York Law School (where he was editor-in-chief of the Journal of International and Comparative Law), and earned an MBA in information systems and in management from New York University (where he was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma). He speaks widely on the topics of product innovation, business strategy, nanotechnology, technology commercialization and the financing of technology companies.
Return to Top... |
Bob Pavey
General Partner, Morgenthaler
Bob, based in Cleveland, OH, joined Morgenthaler in 1969 and has been a General Partner since 1971. From 1990 to 1992, he served as President and then Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association. His major focus is on semiconductors, materials and devices. He sits on the Board of Directors of CLK Design Automation, Five Star Technologies, Intelleflex, Lamina Ceramics, Paratek Microwave, Renaissance Wireless and Xoomsys, Inc. During his tenure, Bob has been involved in many of the firm’s successful investments – Apple Computer, Applied Intelligent Systems (acquired by Electro Scientific), Aptis Communications (acquired by Nortel Networks), Atria Software (acquired by Rational Software), Endwave, Gliatech, Illustra Information Technologies (acquired by Informix), Intrinsa (acquired by Microsoft), New Focus, Synernetics (acquired by 3Com), and Synopsys. Fr om 1967 until 1969, Bob held several management positions with Foseco, Inc. He received a BS in physics from The College of William & Mary in 1964, an MS in metallurgical engineering from Columbia University in 1965 (awarded in 1966), and an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1967.
Return to Top... |
Leonard Poveromo
Director of Technology Development AEW/EW, Northrop Grumman
Leonard Poveromo is currently the Director of Technology Development for Northrop Grumman’s AEW/EW business area. Mr. Poveromo has held leadership positions in the Advanced Composite community throughout his 35-year career. His technical contributions and involvement with professional societies have been significant to the Advanced Composites industry whose evolution his career has paralleled. He currently is a fellow of SAMPE, a member of the Editorial Review Board of the SAMPE Quarterly Magazine, and a member of SCRA’s Technical Advisory Board. He has authored over 30 technical papers, holds several patents, was awarded SPI’s “Centerpoise Award”, and was past Program and General Chairman of SAMPE’s National Technical Conference and the Carbon Fiber Conferences.
Mr. Poveromo has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering f rom Lehigh University and an MBA from Hofstra University.
Return to Top... |
Arthur P. Ramirez
Director, Device Physics Research Department, Lucent Technologies - Bell Labs
Arthur Penn Ramirez is Director of Device Physics Research at Bell Laboratories, where he manages a group of ten PhDs engaged in research from optical devices to quantum well heterostructures to quantum computing. He also manages two large externally funded MEMS development projects that leverage the unique capability presented by the co-location of the New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium with a leading MEMS development group. His background is in broad-based electronic materials and presently conducts research in single-crystal organic electronics and multiferroics. He is a Fellow of theAmerican Physical Society and sits on its governing board. He has worked at Bell Labs since 1984, except for a two-year stint as group leader at Los Alamos National Lab. His B.S. and Ph.D. degrees are both from Yale Univ ersity. He is married with 3 children and lives in Summit, New Jersey.
Return to Top... |
Stéphane Robert
President and CEO, Raymor Industries
Stéphane Robert is responsible for re-focusing company activities from "resource-based" to "technology-driven" in the area of advanced materials, nanomaterial, and nanotechnology. Mr. Robert has raised C$25M for Raymor, and has led the company’s efforts to acquire over 20 advanced material and nanomaterial patents, including the highly scaleable, plasma-based process to produce single-walled carbon nanotubes, a material which will be the technology platform for a multitude of applications in aerospace, defense, electronics, and consumer goods, just to name a few. Through Mr. Robert’s leadership, Raymor has assembled a team of internationally renowned experts in the thermal plasma, material science and carbon nanotubes fields.
With an engineering degree from the University of Laval (1987), Mr. Robert initially pursuing his area of study in Ca nada and West Africa. During this time, he oriented his sharp entrepreneurial skills towards the financing and acquisition of mining properties and high technology industrial projects for public and private companies. Joining Raymor in 1996 and becoming President in 1997, Mr. Robert has negotiated several partnerships, including SOQUEM, McGill University, PyroGenesis, and INRS. Mr. Robert is also founding president of two wholly-owned industrial subsidiaries: Raymor Nanotech Inc., a business focused on the production of single-walled carbon nanotubes and development of related applications, and AP&C Advanced Powders & Coatings Inc., a business focused on the supply of spherical metallic powders, thermal spray coating and nanocoating services, and net-shape forming technology for high value-added applications in aerospace, defense, biomedical, energy and other industrial sectors.
Return to Top... |
Richard M. Saburro
President and CEO, Starfire Systems, Inc.
Richard Saburro came to Starfire in July of 2001 with broad based experience in leadership and management from both, the military, academe and private business. Just prior to joining Starfire Saburro completed a four-year US Air Force active duty assignment as a colonel and Commander of Support Forces Antarctica. In this position, as the senior ranking US military commander in New Zealand and Antarctica, he was responsible for transitioning the US Antarctic Program from 45 years of US Navy command to the Air Force. The Director of National Science Foundation and the National Science Board formally recognized him for his accomplishments, including the South Pole rescue of Dr Jerri Nielson and hosting a visit by President Clinton. Mr. Saburro retired from the military after 31 years of service in April 2001.
Prior to his Antarctic as signment, which began in June of 1997, Saburro held a number of positions in technology development in the Capital Region while carrying on his military career as a pilot in the New York Air National Guard. His technology development positions included Deputy Director for Business Development at University at Albany’s New York State Center for Advanced Thin Film Technology (now Albany Nanotech) and Business Analyst at the Center for Economic Growth. He was recognized for his accomplishments in assisting high technology companies as the first winner from New York State of the Small Business Administration’s national Tibbetts award.
Mr. Saburro’s developed his skills in manufacturing management at General Electric Company where he graduated from their Manufacturing Management Program in 1979. He advanced rapidly at GE to manager of manufacturing engineering for Power Capacitors in Hudson Falls, NY. In this position he led the “Factory with a Future” program and introduced “Just in Time” manufacturing to the department.
Prior to his GE career, Mr. Saburro served on active military duty in the US Air Force as a pilot of the C-141 jet transport on worldwide cargo missions including presidential support. He graduated from Union College in 1970 with a B.S. in physics. Mr. Saburro lives in Saratoga and has three grown daughters.
Starfire Systems is an advanced ceramics materials company offering a novel technology for high temperature, high performance materials with applications in energy, pollution control and transportation. Starfire offices are located in the Saratoga Technology + Energy Park in Malta, NY.
Return to Top... |
Matthew A. Sarad
Chief Executive Officer, Telomolecular
Mr. Sarad is the Chief Executive Officer of Telomolecular, a nanotechnology firm, based in Sacramento, CA, that focuses on the regeneration of aged human tissues. Mr. Sarad specializes in finance and venture capital. As President of 504 Bank, he financed and formed other biotechnology companies in the sector. 504 Bank maintains a close nexus with important financial institutions, venture capital firms, and high net worth private investors. He is experienced in the development of startup enterprises. From 1994 to 2000 he worked as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and State agencies as a senior consultant at KPMG and has been a principal or executive in a variety of successful technology companies. He attained a Bachelor of Science in Management in 1994.
Return to Top... |
George M. Scalise
President, Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)
George M. Scalise is president of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), where he directs a staff focused on International Trade & Government Affairs, Workforce, Technology, Environmental Safety & Health, and Communications.
Mr. Scalise came to the SIA from Apple Computer, where he served as executive vice president of operations. Prior to that, he held executive management positions at National Semiconductor, Maxtor Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices, Fairchild Semiconductor and Motorola Semiconductor.
A graduate of Purdue University with a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering, Mr. Scalise is a highly respected technology industry spokesperson with special interest and expertise in technology, international trade, and competition issues. He was a founding member of the Semiconductor Research C orporation, an industry-funded organization that provides resources for pre-competitive semiconductor research at American universities.
Mr. Scalise currently serves on President George W. Bush's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology as well as numerous boards, including Cadence Design Systems, Intermolecular, and iSuppli Corporation. He has also served as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and been on the boards of SEMATECH, Semiconductor Research Corporation, the Bay Area Economic Forum, Dubai Silicon Oasis, and he was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Economic Task Force on Japan. He participates on advisory committees at the College of Engineering at Purdue University and is a member of the California Council on Science and Technology Fellows Program. He served on the advisory committees at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University and the School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. He was named a Distinguished Engineering Al umnus of Purdue University in 2002. He also chaired the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, U.S. Department of Energy.
Return to Top... |
David Soane
Chief Executive Officer
David Soane received his PhD (1978) in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1979 to 1994, he was a full-time member of the faculty at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, where he published approximately 200 papers and two books (Polymers in Microelectronics and Polymer Applications for Biotechnology). His academic research spanned a wide range of topics, including structure-property relations of polymers, membrane fabrication and characterization, polymerization reaction engineering, photolithography and interlayer dielectrics, gel and capillary electrophoresis, and novel MEMS devices. Since his departure from academia, Soane has focused his energy on several high-technology start-ups. These ventures share a common theme: applying leading scientific discoveries to mature industries with es tablished mass markets. His startups include Soane Technologies, ACLARA BioSciences, Alnis BioSciences, Cosmetica, DuraFizz, Innovative Construction and Building Materials, NanoPaper, Nano-Tex, and ZMS.
Return to Top... |
Peter F. Stewart
Attorney, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP
Peter Stewart is an attorney in the corporate department of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP and is one of the leaders of its Nanotechnology Practice Group. His current nanotechnology clients include pSivida Limited, AION Diagnostics and Atomate Corporation. He has broad experience representing both public and private technology companies in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, intellectual property and commercial matters. He has guided clients through numerous initial public offerings, venture capital and other financings, strategic alliances, joint ventures, acquisitions, spin-offs and technology licenses. Before joining Curtis, Mr. Stewart was a senior political advisor to Steve Westly, California's State Controller. Prior to that, he served as general counsel to several Silicon Valley startups and was an associate at the law firms of Wilson Sonsini in Palo Alto and Skadden Arps in New York. Mr. Stewart earned his law degree, magna cum laude, from Boston University School of Law and has an undergraduate engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is admitted to practice law in New York, California and Massachusetts.
Return to Top... |
Nathan Tinker, PhD
Founder, NanoBusiness Development Group
Nathan Tinker is a co-founder of the NanoBusiness Alliance, overseeing all industry research, education and liaison initiatives. He is also a founder of NanoBusiness Development Group, the Alliance's consulting and market intelligence arm. His clients have included Yahoo, Lockheed Martin, General Electric, Nissho Awai America Corp., DaimlerChrysler and Sprint among many others, the governments of Taiwan, Canada, US and Germany, and a host of emerging nanotechnology companies.
Nathan is a globally recognized expert in the markets of nanotechnology products, and has authored dozens of market and industry analyses and reports, including "Carbon Nanotubes: Worldwide Status and Outlook," "Small Tech Sensors: US Markets, Applications and Forecasts," and "Quantum Dot and Semiconductor Nanocrystal Patent Survey." He has been quoted in Wall Street Journal, Time, Small Times, Red Herring and other leading publications, and is an advisor to PBS's "Nanotechnology" documentary series.
Nathan is a frequent speaker at nanotechnology events, conferences and symposia. He holds a PhD from Fordham University.
Return to Top... |
Barry Weinbaum
President & CEO, NanoOpto Corporation
Barry Weinbaum assumed the role of President & CEO of NanoOpto Corporation in August 2001 after a 21-year career at Lucent Technologies and AT&T, where his most recent position was as Vice President - Optical Long Haul Solutions (DWDM), Lucent’s largest optical systems business. At Lucent/AT&T, his background in optics, enterprise communications, networking, wireless and voice processing helped Mr. Weinbaum established a record of leading start-up, established and turn-around operations to market leadership in a variety of product and technology areas.
Career Highlights include: Director of Lucent’s Mergers and Acquisition team for the Optical Networking Group (1999-2000), General Manager – Enterprise Wireless PBX communications (1995-1999), General Manager: Voice Response (1991-1995). Mr. Weinbaum was a pioneer of the Computer Telephony b usiness (1990-1991), which helped lead to many of the Call Center and CRM applications of today. Mr. Weinbaum started his career as a Bell Laboratories engineer and holds two patents. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Union College in Schenectady, NY, and a M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University.
Since joining NanoOpto, Mr. Weinbaum has been an oft-invited speaker at many nanotechnology, optical and venture conferences including: IBF’s Nanotechnology Investing Forum – 2003-2005, NanoEquity Europe 2005, VentureWire's Network Outlook 2004 Conference, NanoBusiness 2002-2005, the 2004 Red Herring Top 100, and at VentureOne’s Exchange and Summit conferences. He has also been a presenter at Supercomm, Comnet, Networld+Interop and CTIA Wireless.
Return to Top... |
|
|
