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Accelerating Regional Solutions:Finding Unique Pathways to American Prosperity
LEnfant Plaza Hotel | Washington, DC
Speaker & facilitator bios
Transformative Regional Engagement (TRE) Roundtable
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John Bardo
John Bardo recently retired as the Chancellor o Western Carolina
University, a constituent institution o the University o North
Carolina. His previous positions include chie academic ocer,dean, department head and proessor in universities in the U.S.,
the United Kingdom, Australia, and Turkey. Bardos primary
interests are in institutional strategy and mission; the roles o universities in the
globalized economy; institutional accreditation and outcomes; and managing
change in higher education. Bardos most recent work involves developing
measures o state innovation and competitiveness and educational restructuring
to promote competitiveness and he is completing work on a book ocused on the
relationship between higher education policy and the new economy. Bardo hasserved as a member o the Board o Trustees o the Commission on Colleges o
the Southern Association o Colleges and Schools and he is currently completing
his term as a member o the Commissions Executive Committee. He also
chaired the Economic Development Committee or the American Association o
State Colleges and Universities and served as a member o the Minority Interests
Committee o the NCAA.
Dan Carol
Dan Carol is the Director o Multi-State Initiatives or Oregon
Governor Kitzhaber. A member o the Clinton Global Initiative
and a co-ounder o the Clean Economy Network, Carol also
teaches public policy at the University o Oregon. Previously,
he was the Senior Fellow or Innovation and Clean Economy atNDN and the New Policy Institute, where he ocused on bottom-up and regional
innovation, and held positions as an environmental and energy budget analyst at
the Congressional Budget Oce, a Presidential Management Fellow, and a trend
consultant or the Congressional Institute or the Future. In 2008, Carol served as
the Content & Issues Director or the Obama or President Campaign, where he
guided the launches o Obamas NewEnergyorAmerica.com plan and Clean Tech
and Green Business Leaders or Obama (CT40). A long-time catalyst and evangelist
or building new approaches or a Green New Deal, Carol spearheaded the creation
o The Apollo Alliance, an early, post 9/11 eort to promote a moon mission
national commitment to energy independence.
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Anthony Chirchirillo
Anthony Chirchirillo is the CEO o Chirch Global Manuacturing.
He began his proessional career as a CPA in the Chicago
oce o KPMG, specializing in the health care industry. Hewas widely recognized as one the countrys oremost experts
in assisting nancially distressed health care institutions. In
1991, Chirchirillo launched the Chirchirillo Company, ollowed by Chirch Global
Manuacturing in 2002. Chirch Global is a amily owned business that specializes
in procuring high quality manuacturing at globally competitive costs. With
operations in Chicago, Milwaukee and Shenzhen, the company assists USA based
companies thrive and prosper in the burgeoning global economy. Chirch Global
companies embody the entrepreneurial spirit o their ounder and operate withinthe context o a clearly dened Statement o Values. Those values emphasize the
importance o integrity and the commitment to amily that is the oundation
upon which the company was built. In 2005, Chirch Global and Chamco, Inc.
(the Oshkosh Industrial Development Corporation) received approval to develop
GlobalOne, a 1617-acre Foreign Trade Zone. Chirchirillo is an alumnus o Harvard
Business School and Loyola University o Chicago.
Aneesh Chopra
Aneesh Chopra is the United States Chie Technology Ocer and
in this role serves as an Assistant to the President and Associate
Director or Technology within the Oce o Science & Technology
Policy. He works to advance the Presidents technology agenda
by ostering new ideas and encouraging government-widecoordination to help the country meet its goals rom job creation, to reducing
health care costs, to protecting the homeland. Prior to his appointment, he served
as Secretary o Technology or the Commonwealth o Virginia rom January 2006
until April 2009. He previously served as Managing Director with the Advisory
Board Company, a publicly-traded healthcare think tank. Chopra was named to
Government Technology magazines Top 25 in their Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers
issue in 2008. Chopra received his BA rom The Johns Hopkins University and his
MPP rom Harvards Kennedy School.
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Paul J. Corson
Paul J. Corson serves in the U.S. Department o Commerces Oce o Innovation
and Entrepreneurship, where he promotes policies and programs to support high-
growth entrepreneurship, the acceleration o technology commercialization, and thedevelopment o regional innovation ecosystems. Among his responsibilities, Paul
has managed the i6 and the Jobs and Innovation Accelerator grant competitions,
as well as the Commerce Secretarys National Advisory Council on Innovation
and Entrepreneurship, developed the Taskorce on Space Industry Work Force and
Economic Development report to the President, and led Departmental eorts to co-
host the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship. Prior to joining the Department,
Paul held senior management positions or entrepreneurial rms and start-ups in
the United States, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. He holds an MA in InternationalRelations rom The George Washington University and a BA in Political Economies
rom Franklin and Marshall College.
Rena Cotsones
Rena Cotsones is assistant vice president or regional engagement
at Northern Illinois University. In that position, she is responsible
or creating a comprehensive engagement strategy or Rockord, a
blue-collar city still seeking its place in the modern marketplace.
Cotsones works to expand the communitys understanding o
NIU in the region and acilitates partnerships with the communitys educational,
public policy and corporate sectors. Previously, Cotsones served as executive
director o community relations or NIU at its main campus in DeKalb. She worked
as executive vice president o the Rockord Chamber o Commerce beore comingto NIU, and remains active with the chamber as well as the Rockord Area Economic
Development Council and the Rockord Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Cotsones holds a BS rom Illinois State University, a MPA rom NIU, and is nishing
a PhD in political science at NIU.
Paul Crawford
Paul Craword is a member o the Division o Outreach,
Engagement and Inormation Technologies at Northern Illinois
University, where he has two assignments: Director o PASCAL
International Initiatives, and Director o Community College
Relations. Craword is one o our co-Directors or the PASCAL
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International Observatory, with colleagues in Arica, Australia and Europe. Prior
to coming to NIU, Paul served as Director o Financial Assistance at Illinois Valley
Community College and held other positions at National-Louis University. He has
taught at the secondary and college level in Illinois and Wisconsin.
Ray Daffner
Ray Daner is the Entrepreneurship Initiative Manager at the Appalachian Regional
Commission. Daner ocuses on nancial and technical resources to local, state and
nonprot organizations to support the development o entrepreneurial businesses.
Previously, Daner, worked in the sotware, research and manuacturing industries,
and or six years was the executive director o the Northwest Wood ProductsAssociation. He received a BS in biochemistry rom Duke University and an MBA
rom Yale University.
Emily DeRocco
Emily DeRocco is president o The Manuacturing Institute, the
non-prot, non-partisan aliate o the National Association
o Manuacturers. DeRocco has launched and implemented a
strategic national agenda on education reorm and workorce
development, innovation support and services, and research on
behal o U.S. manuacturers. Under her leadership, the Institute has developed and
deployed a system o nationally portable, industry-recognized Manuacturing Skills
Certications; chaired the National Thought Leaders Forum on linking the nations
high perormance supercomputing capacity to manuacturers; and released leading-edge research. Prior to this position, DeRocco served as Assistant Secretary o Labor,
where she created and implemented regional economic development initiatives
in 39 regions across the nation during her tenure, using talent development
strategies to drive competitive advantage or Americas businesses. DeRocco also
brings over 10 years o private sector experience in managing a national non-
prot organization and prior ederal government experience at the Departments o
Energy and Interior, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Interstate
Commerce Commission. DeRocco is a proud graduate o The Pennsylvania StateUniversity and received her Juris Doctorate rom the Georgetown Law Center.
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John Freisinger
John Freisinger is president and CEO o Technology Ventures
Corporation (TVC), where he previously served as the Director o
Project Management. Founded by the Lockheed Martin Corporation,TVC helps startup companies that are developing technology rom
the national laboratories, increasing employment opportunities
and wealth in the technology industry. Prior to joining TVC, Freisinger served in
many executive capacities including COO, VP o sales and marketing, VP o business
development, and head o mergers and acquisitions or numerous technology
startups. He has a successul track record o helping to structure companies or
equity unding and acquisition. He also has experience in such diverse industries
as hotel management, beverage sales, library sciences, inormatics, computer-aidedwhole-language translation, computer systems integration, supercomputing, video
and lm post production, oil and gas exploration, and home automation. Freisinger
also proessionally coaches executives and clergy using his Be Bold, Be Brilliant, Be
Gone methodology to help create more dynamic, relevant messages. He has a BA
in economics rom the University o New Mexico.
Maryann Feldman
Maryann Feldman is the Heninger Distinguished Proessor in the
Department o Public Policy at the University o North Carolina. Her
research and teaching interests ocus on the areas o innovation,
the commercialization o academic research and the actors that
promote technological change and economic growth. A large part
o Feldmans work concerns the geography o innovation investigating the reasonswhy innovation clusters spatially and the mechanisms that support and sustain
industrial clusters. She has written extensively on the early development and
growth o biotechnology, as an example o a transormative technology. Feldmans
previous appointments include the University o Toronto, the University o Georgia
and Johns Hopkins University. Feldman is currently Principal Investigator on a
NSF-unded project that examines state economic development policies. This work
aims to understand what policies are most appropriate in dierent ecosystems and
under dierent economic conditions. Feldman earned her BA at the Ohio State
University as well as MS and PhD degrees rom Carnegie Mellon University.
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Charles Fluharty
Charles Fluharty is the Founder, President, and CEO o the Rural
Policy Research Institute (RUPRI), the only national policy institute
in the U.S. solely dedicated to assessing the rural impacts opublic policies. Since RUPRIs ounding in 1990, over 300 scholars
representing 16 dierent disciplines in 100 universities, all U.S.
states and 30 other nations have participated in RUPRI projects, which address
the ull range o policy and program dynamics aecting rural people and places.
Collaborations with the OECD, the EU, the German Marshall Fund, the Inter-American
Institute or Cooperation on Agriculture, the International Rural Network and other
international organizations are raming RUPRIs comparative rural policy oci.
A Research Proessor in the Harry S Truman School o Public Aairs at the University
o MissouriColumbia, and a German Marshall Fund Transatlantic Fellow, he also
holds an Adjunct Faculty appointment in the University o Missouri Department o
Rural Sociology. The author o numerous policy studies and journal articles, he has
presented dozens o Congressional testimonies and briengs. He holds a BA rom
the University o Steubenville and a MDiv rom Yale University.
Tim Franklin
Tim Franklin is the Chie Operating Ocer and Secretary o TRE
Networks. Previously, Franklin served as Director o the Oce
o Public Partnerships & Engagement at the Pennsylvania State
University, developing relationships with state and ederal
government agencies, economic and workorce developmentorganizations, other postsecondary education institutions, and businesses and
industries, matching Penn State resources, expertise and intellectual assets with
relevant needs in Pennsylvania and beyond. Prior to his Penn State appointment,
Franklin served as Director o University Outreach Programs, Southside Virginia, or
Virginia Tech, leading the Universitys Southside Initiative, a broad-scale eort to
dene its 21st Century land-grant mission. In that role, Franklin was the ounding
Executive Director o the Institute or Advanced Learning and Research (IALR), a
unique regional stewarding institution that serves as a catalyst or the revitalization
o Southside Virginias economy through applied university-led research, technology
commercialization, advanced learning, outreach and advanced networking and
technology. The IALR and Virginia Tech received the prestigious national C. Peter
Magrath/W. K. Kellogg Foundation Engagement Award or 2007 awarded by the
Association o Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU).
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Shari Garmise
Shari Garmise is the Vice President, USU/ APLU Oce o Urban Initiatives or the
Association o Public and Land Grant Universities (APLU) and the Coalition o Urban
Serving Universities (USU), where she leads an urban agenda that seeks to harnessthe collective power o public research universities to remake our cities as vital,
competitive, creative places with opportunities or all. Previously, Garmise served as
Vice President or Knowledge Management and Development at the International
Economic Development Council and Assistant Proessor o Economic Development
at the Maxine Goodman Levin College o Urban Aairs at Cleveland State University.
Garmise has over 20 years o experience in economic and urban development in the
United States and Europe, working on diverse economic and urban development-
related issues. Garmise recently published People and the Competitive Advantageo Place: Building a 21st Century Workorce and has published in journals including
Local Economy, Economic Development Journal and Regional and Federal Studies
as well as various book chapters, working papers, and proessional reports and
policy analyses. Garmise received her PhD rom the London School o Economics.
Todd HardyTodd Hardy leads Arizona State Universitys SkySong, the
universitys economic development and global enterprise unit
responsible or the creation o strategic alliances with businesses
and governments driving innovation and growth in domestic and
global markets. Hardy is responsible or engaging the expertise
o aculty and the resources o ASU in the development o
entrepreneurial enterprises, support o new entrants to marketsin Arizona and Western United State, and pursuit o collaborative research
initiatives with commercial partners in select industries. Prior to joining ASU,
Hardy was the Executive Director o Digital Knowledge Ventures, the new media
entrepreneurial unit o Columbia University. Throughout his career, including more
than twenty-ve years as corporate counsel to Fortune 500 and NASDAQ rms and
co-ounder o a number o startup and early stage enterprises, he has been a leader
in the ormation and operation o innovative enterprises. Hardy received a BS in
Industrial Engineering rom Purdue University; a JD rom the Washington College o
Law at American University; and a MS in Real Estate Development rom Columbia
University in the City o New York.
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Michael Harris
Michael Harris is the Chancellor o Indiana University Kokomo
and Proessor o Public and Environmental Aairs, Education and
Business. He has published our books (a th is orthcoming).He has also published close to 40 articles in a variety o journals.
He has been acknowledged nationally and internationally or his
work in leading change and enhancing innovation and entrepreneurship. Harris has
a successul track record working toward regional transormation and international
collaboration currently in north central Indiana. Previously, Harris was provost
and vice president or academic and student aairs at Kettering University, vice
president or academic aairs at Ferris State University; associate provost (and
interim provost) at Eastern Michigan University. He also taught at the GraduateProgram in Public Policy at Tel Aviv University; was the vice president or nance
& marketing at Tomer Industries in Israel; and served in the Israel Deense Forces
and retired at the rank o major. He received his PhD in public policy rom Indiana
University, his masters rom Tel-Aviv University, and his undergraduate degree in
economics and business administration rom Bar-Ilan University.
James Kadtke
James Kadtke is the Industry and State Liaison at the National Nanotechnology
Coordinating Oce, the interagency oce coordinating all nanotechnology research
in the US Federal Government. Previously, he served as Executive Director o the
Accelerating Innovation Foundation, an adjunct aculty at the National Deense
University and George Mason University, and a consultant to the government on
policy and research in the deense, technology, and homeland security areas. From1999 to 2001 he was a Fellow at the Rand Science and Technology Policy Institute,
supporting the White House Oce o Science and Technology Policy, and aterward
spent a year on the Science Committee in the US House o Representatives. He
then served nearly our years on the sta o Senator John Warner o Virginia, where
he handled technology, deense, and business issues. He has also served as the
Chie Scientist at Nonlinear Solutions, Inc. as well as over ten years as a research
aculty at the University o Caliornia at San Diego. Kadtke received his PhD in
physics rom Brown University.
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Josef Konvitz
Jose Konvitz recently retired as the Head o Division, Regulatory
Policy, or the Organisation or Economic Co-Operation and
Development (OECD). Previously, he worked in the division oUrban Aairs and Policy at OECD and a proessor o history at
Michigan State University, specializing in early modern and
modern European history, the history o science and technology, and urban history.
A member o the Board o Editors o the Journal o Urban History, Konvitz served as
guest editor o a special issue on the subject o the megalopolis (1993). Konvitz was
a Scholar in Residence in urban studies at the University in Glasgow , and in early
modern history at the University o Minnesota. In addition, he was honored with
a visiting proessorship rom the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, inParis. He received a Fellowship or Independent Study and a major grant rom the
National Endowment or the Humanities, and was a Fellow at the Wilson Center
in Washington, D.C. Konvitz received a BA with Honors in History rom Cornell
University and a PhD rom Princeton University.
Vic LechtenbergVic Lechtenberg is Director o the Purdue Center or Regional Development. He
served as Vice Provost or Engagement at Purdue University rom 2004-2007 and
2009-2011. Lechtenberg joined the Purdue aculty as a Proessor o Agronomy in
1971 and taught crop science and conducted research on orage and biomass crops
until 1982. He served as Associate Director o Agricultural Research Programs,
and as the Executive Associate Dean o Agriculture rom 1983 to 1993, and was
Dean o Agriculture rom 1993 to 2004. Since 2004, as Vice Provost or Engagement,he has been leading Purdues engagement and outreach eorts to governmental
agencies, corporate leaders, schools and community leaders across Indiana and
beyond. Lechtenberg is a member o several academic, proessional, and scholarly
societies and has written nearly 200 technical papers, abstracts, and book chapters.
Lechtenberg is a native o Butte, Nebraska, where he grew up on a general livestock
arm. He received his bachelors degree rom the University o Nebraska and a
doctorate rom Purdue.
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Samuel Leiken
Samuel Leiken recently retired as vice president o the Council
on Competitiveness, where he led its work on regional economic
and workorce development. He was the principal investigatorand author o the Councils recently published, EDA unded
report, COLLABORATE Leading Regional Innovation Clusters.
He also developed and directed Tapping Mature Talent (TMT), a oundation unded
initiative providing technical assistance. Prior to coming to the Council, Sam served
as Senior Policy Analyst in the division o Social, Economic and Workorce Policy at
the National Governors Associations Center or Best Practices. At the NGA, he was
involved in planning and delivering numerous training academies on economic
development, workorce and education issues. Leiken previously served as the vicepresident or policy or the Council on Adult and Experiential Learning, and the
ounder and president o the Massachusetts Product Development Corporation,
a state-owned, privately operated venture capital und. A graduate o Columbia
University, he holds an MPA rom the Kennedy School o Government o Harvard
University, and a journeyman machinists license rom the Commonwealth o
Massachusetts.
Ed Morrison
Ed Morrison is a member o the sta o the Center or Regional
Development at Purdue University. For the past ve or six years,
he has been developing new, network-based models or economic
and workorce development. These approaches emphasize
the strategic value o ocused regional collaborations and openinnovation in todays global economy. As a part o this work, he has developed
new disciplines in regional strategy called strategic doing. He currently teaches
these new methods and tools in the advanced strategy lab at the University o
Oklahoma Economic Development Institute. For over twenty years, he conducted
strategy projects with economic and workorce developers in the U.S. His work won
the rst Arthur D. Little Award or excellence in economic development presented
by the American Economic Development Council. Prior to starting his economic
development work, Ed worked or Telesis, a corporate strategy consulting rm
and also held several positions in the ederal government. He holds a BA degree
cum laude with honors rom Yale University and MBA and JD degrees rom the
University o Virginia.
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Jayson Myers
Jayson Myers is the President & CEO o Canadian Manuacturers
& Exporters, Canadas largest industry and trade association.
CME is dedicated to improving business conditions or Canadasmanuacturers and exporters and helping its more than 5,000
members compete and win in domestic and international
markets. Mr. Myers is also the Chair o the Canadian Manuacturing Coalition, a
coalition o over 40 industry associations that have come together to speak with
a common voice on priority issues or Canadas manuacturing sector. Mr. Myers
is a well-known economic commentator, and is widely published in the elds o
Canadian and international economics, technological and industrial change. Mr.
Myers sits on special advisory councils to the Minister or International Trade, theMinister o Industry, Immigration Canada, Human Resources Development Canada,
and the Canadian Border Services Agency and is co-chair o Canadas Roundtable
on Workorce Skills and Vice-Chair o both the Ontario Manuacturing Council and
the Great Lakes Manuacturing Council. Mr. Myers studied at Queens University,
Kingston and the University o British Columbia in Canada, and at the London
School o Economics and Oxord University.
Jason Owen-Smith
Jason Owen-Smith is director o both the Organizational Studies Program and the
Barger Leadership Institute at the University o Michigan. He holds the Barger
Leadership Institute Proessorship o Organizational Studies and is an Associate
Proessor in both the Department o Sociology and the Organizational Studies
Program. Owen-Smith is a sociologist who examines how science, commerce, andthe law cohere and confict in contemporary societies and economies. Together
with collaborators, Jason works on projects that examine the dynamics o high-
technology industries, the commercialization o academic research, and the
science & politics o human embryonic stem cell research. He seeks to understand
how organizations, institutions, and networks can maintain the status quo while
generating novelty through social transormations, scientic discoveries, and
technological breakthroughs. He is the recipient o a National Science Foundation
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award and an Alred P. Sloan Foundation
Industries Studies Fellowship in Biotechnology. He received his MA and PhD degrees
in Sociology at the University o Arizona and a BA in Sociology and Philosophy rom
the New College o Florida.
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Ed Paisley
Ed Paisley is Vice President or Editorial at the Center or American
Progress and Editorial Director o Science Progress, a CAP project,
where he concentrates on science and regional economicdevelopment. He is co-author o the report The Geography o
Innovation: The Federal Government and the Growth o Regional
Innovation Clusters. Ed is a 20-year veteran o business and nance journalism
who joined American Progress ater successully launching the specialist Wall
Street print and web publication The Deal as its managing editor. Previously, Paisley
spent a decade in East Asia as an editor and journalist covering business, nance,
and politics or the Far Eastern Economic Review, a Dow Jones & Co. publication,
and Institutional Investor magazine. Paisley earned a masters degree in East Asianhistory rom Georgetown University and a bachelors degree in American Studies
rom George Mason University. He also spent a year as a resident docent at the
National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan, where he studied Chinese art history.
Marvin Parnes
Marvin Parnes is associate vice president or research and executive director o
research administration at the University o Michigan. In that position, his work
includes coordinating seed unding or new scholarly projects and special needs in
the research community, as well as managing the Division o Research Development
and Administration. Parnes has been active in the restructuring o technology
transer at the university, addressing the role and strategy o the institution in
regional economic development, resulting in the ormation o SPARK, a partnership
between universities, government, and businesses to promote innovation in theAnn Arbor area. He is the Principal Investigator or the Michigan Initiative or
Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a statewide consortium o public universities.
Parnes has served on many intellectual property and technology development
committees and has recently served as Chair o the Council on Governmental
Relations, a national association o research universities based in Washington, D.C.
He is currently serving on the Executive Committee o the Association o Public and
Land Grant Universities Commission on Innovation, Competitiveness & Economic
Prosperity and is on the Board o TRE.
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Manuel Pastor
Manuel Pastor is Proessor o Geography and American Studies
& Ethnicity at the University o Southern Caliornia and also
serves as Director o USCs Program or Environmental andRegional Equity (PERE) and co-Director o USCs Center or the
Study o Immigrant Integration (CSII). His research ocuses on
the economic, environmental and social conditions acing low-income urban
communities in the U.S. He has also conducted research on Latin American
economic conditions. His most recent book, Uncommon Common Ground: Race and
Americas Future (co-authored with Angela Glover Blackwell and Stewart Kwoh),
documents the gap between progress in racial attitudes and racial realities, and
oers a new set o strategies or both talking about race and achieving racial equity.In 2002 he was named a Civic Entrepreneur o the Year by the Caliornia Center or
Regional Leadership. He was a ounding director o the Center or Justice, Tolerance,
and Community at the University o Caliornia, Santa Cruz. Pastor holds a BA rom
the University o Caliornia, Santa Cruz, and an MA and PhD in economics the
University o Massachusetts, Amherst.
Erika Poethig
Erika Poethig was appointed by President Obama in 2009 to be
Deputy Assistant Secretary or Policy Development in the Oce
o Policy Development and Research at the U.S. Department o
Housing and Urban Development. Poethig was most recently
the Associate Director or Aordable Housing at the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation where she ocused on regional policy andpractice, housing policy and research, and the Foundations $150 million special
initiative or the preservation o aordable rental housing. Ms. Poethig also served
as Assistant Commissioner or Policy, Resource and Program Development at the
City o Chicagos Department o Housing, where she directed the departments city,
state and ederal policy agendas. Previously, she was Associate Project Director
o the Metropolis Project, which resulted in the creation o the Metropolis 2020
agenda or regional leadership around the major issues aced by the metropolitan
Chicago area. Poethig was a Phi Beta Kappa rom the College o Wooster, a Fulbright
Scholar at the University o Vienna, and graduated with honors with a MPP rom the
University o Chicago.
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Luis M. Proenza
Luis M. Proenza is President o The University o Akron and an
experienced leader in national science and technology policy
matters. Previously, he was Vice President or Research and Deano the Graduate School at Purdue University and held several
senior positions at the University o Alaska. Dr. Proenza has
served on the U.S. Arctic Research Commission (U.S. Presidential appointment); the
Advisory Board o the U.S. Secretary o Energy, the NAS-NRC Committee on Vision,
and the National Biotechnology Policy Board. In 2001, the President o the United
States appointed Proenza to the Presidents Council o Advisors on Science and
Technology. Proenza is on the executive committee and the National Innovation
Initiative Leadership Council o the Council on Competitiveness. He also is on theCouncil on Foreign Relations, The National Academies Government-University-
Industry Research Roundtable, the board o the States Science and Technology
Institute, and he is Association o Public and Land-Grant Universities co-chair o
the APLU/AAU Patent Reorm Committee. He earned a BA rom Emory University,
an MA rom The Ohio State University and a PhD rom the University o Minnesota.
Wendy Puriefoy
Wendy Purieoy is the ounding president o Public Education Network (PEN),
the nations largest network o community-based school reorm organizations
reaching more than 11 million children in 1,220 school districts and 18,000 schools
nationwide. As president o PEN, Ms. Purieoy has been the leading orce behind
systemic reorm initiatives in school nance and governance, curriculum and
assessment, parent involvement, school libraries and school health. With supportrom national oundations, PEN launched multi-million dollar public engagement
initiatives ocused on teacher quality, standards and accountability, and schools
and community services. A nationally recognized expert on issues o school
reorm and civil society, Purieoy is well known or her passionate advocacy
o education equity or poor and disadvantaged children and has written and
spoken extensively on the issues. Prior to joining PEN, Purieoy was executive
vice president and chie operating ocer o The Boston Foundation, a community
oundation with an endowment o over $750 million in Boston, Massachusetts.
Purieoy received a BA degree rom William Smith College and holds three MA
degrees rom Boston University.
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Charles Rutheiser
Charles Rutheiser is a Senior Fellow in Annie E. Casey Foundations
Center or Community and Economic Opportunity. He manages
grant portolios in Anchor Institutions, National Partnerships, andKnowledge Development and is part o the design team developing
Caseys next generation approach to community change. For the
last nine years, he has participated in the East Baltimore Revitalization Initiative,
a large-scale eort to build a mixed-income community o opportunity and lie
science research park in a deeply distressed neighborhood adjacent to the Johns
Hopkins Medical Institutions. Prior to working with the Casey Foundation, Charles
directed the Graduate Program in Applied Anthropology at Georgia State University
and taught Cultural Anthropology and Urban Studies at the Johns HopkinsUniversity, Bryn Mawr College, and Western Michigan University. He is the author o
Imagineering Atlanta: the politics o place in the city o dreams. Rutheiser received
a MA and PhD in Cultural Anthropology rom the Johns Hopkins University, and a
BA in Anthropology rom New College o Florida.
John Schneider John Schneider is Assistant Vice President o Industry Research
at Purdue University. He joined Purdue in 1994 ater spending
twenty-seven years with the Dow Chemical Company. His oce
links Purdue University aculty members with industry and
encourages corporate sponsorship o research. While with Dow,
he had a varied management career with assignments in research, development,
marketing, technical services, sales (District Sales Manager or New York area),marketing research, business prot/loss (Dow Brazil) and New Ventures. He
has authored multiple articles and publications, including works on various
chemical topics, re retardancy, government regulations and product stewardship,
entrepreneurship, and university-industry collaboration partnerships. He serves as
the president o the board o the Access Technology Across Indiana (ATAIN); vice
president o the board o the Great Lakes Manuacturing Council and treasurer o
the board or Elevate Ventures, Inc. Schneider received a BA in chemistry rom Albion
College, Albion, Michigan and a PhD in organic chemistry rom the Massachusetts
Institute o Technology (MIT).
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Jeffrey Schwartz
Jerey Schwartz is the Education Program Manager or the
Appalachian Regional Commission. Prior to coming to the
Commission in December o 1999, Schwartz had been anindependent consultant, a training specialist with various U.S.
Department o Education unded technical assistance centers,
a school administrator, and a classroom teacher. He has both national and
international experience, including overall school leadership; program design,
evaluation and consultation; and elementary, secondary, adult, and college and
university level teaching. Throughout his career, Schwartz has emphasized
development o appropriate educational programming or students with diverse
educational needs and those that have been historically underserved. Schwartzis currently responsible or educational development at all levels rom day care
through pre-K-12, higher education, adult education and workorce training
throughout the 13-state Appalachian Region. His ormal educational background
includes elementary and special education, instructional systems design, and
educational administration.
Ted Settle
Ted Settle retired in 2010 as Director o Economic Development
at Virginia Tech, where he provided leadership to university
activities and initiatives that generated economic development
throughout the Commonwealth o Virginia. He was actively
involved at the state level in economic development policy
and in leading a renewed ocus on manuacturing in Virginia. He providedthought leadership that began with two state-unded regional R&D centers
and resulted in ve Tobacco Commission-unded research centers across the
distressed regions o southern and southwest Virginia. Settle has been active in
the national university engagement and economic development conversations
or several years, initiating and co-leading the development o the week-long
Engagement Academy or University Leader. Settle previously served as Director
o Continuing Education at Virginia Tech, Director o the NCR Management
College at NCR Corporation with worldwide responsibility or management
development, and Assistant Director or Academic and Health Aairs with
the Illinois Board o Higher Education. He earned his BA in mathematics rom
Iowa State University, his MBA rom Harvard University, and his PhD in higher
education administration rom the University o Michigan.
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Mark Skinner
Mark Skinner is Vice President o SSTI and has served as Director o the Regional
Innovation Acceleration Network (RIAN) project or the past year. SSTI is a national
nonprot organization that strengthens state local and university-based eorts toexpand regional economies through science, technology, and innovation. The RIAN
project supports the community o existing and emerging Venture Development
Organizations (VDOs) around the country by providing the means or peer-to-peer
sharing o inormation and best/common practices; helping to identiy unding
opportunities or VDOs; and providing tools to help regions approach the creation o
their own VDOs. Working with SSTI since 1998, Mr. Skinner was the long time editor
o SSTIs e-publications, the SSTI Weekly Digest and the Funding Supplement. He
has been the principal author or a co-author on a number o publications, includingthe EDA-unded A Resource Guide or Technology-based Economic Development.
Mr. Skinner has extensive experience with small technology companies and ederal
research and development programs. Mr. Skinner received his BA in urban and
regional planning rom Miami University.
Charles M. VestCharles M. Vest is President o the National Academy o
Engineering and President Emeritus o the Massachusetts
Institute o Technology. His academic career began at the
University o where he taught in the areas o heat transer,
thermodynamics, and fuid mechanics, and conducted research
in heat transer and engineering applications o laser optics and holography. He
served as associate dean o engineering, dean o engineering and provost and vicepresident or academic aairs at the University o Michigan, beore being named as
president o the Massachusetts Institute o Technology (MIT) in 1990, where he was
active in science, technology, and innovation policy; building partnerships among
academia, government and industry; and championing the importance o open,
global scientic communication, travel, and sharing o intellectual resources. He
was awarded the 2006 National Medal o Technology by President Bush, and received
the 2011 Vannevar Bush Award rom the National Science Board. Vest earned a BS in
mechanical engineering rom West Virginia University, and MSE and PhD degrees in
mechanical engineering rom the University o Michigan.
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Wayne Watkins
Wayne Watkins is Associate Vice President or Research at The
University o Akron and Adjunct Proessor and Intellectual
Property Fellow at The University o Akron School o Law.He serves as Vice President and directs the operations o the
University o Akron Research Foundation, a regional innovation
and wealth creation services organization. Watkins directs The University o Akron
programs in intellectual property management, emerging enterprise creation
and support, technology-based economic development, and university/industry
collaborations. Watkins is the immediate past President o the University Economic
Development Association, a national organization supporting universities in
economic development and innovation. Prior to his roles at The University o Akronin Ohio, Watkins served as Director o the Research and Technology Park and the
Oce o Technology Commercialization at Utah State University. He served as Vice
President and Corporate Counsel o a diversied business holding company and
was the administrator o the Utah Innovation Center. He currently serves on several
boards o directors o technology and agricultural related companies. Watkins has
degrees in mechanical engineering (BSME), business (MBA), and law (JD).
Andrea Wesser
Andrea Wesser is Business Development Manager at the
University o Central Florida Venture Lab. She started her career
in technology commercialization rom the inventors side, having
designed commercial medical and chemical analysis devices
in the microscale. She began her technical marketing career atthe Venture Lab as an intern, assisting dozens o Central Florida companies in
investment pitch and commercialization plan coaching, as well as SBIR/STTR and
other grant writing. Upon graduation, she assumed the position o Product Line
Manager o start-up Planar Energy Devices, an advanced battery company, where she
launched aggressive product development and marketing campaigns. These eorts
resulted in several prestigious award wins, including most recently, a 2009 R&D 100
and 2009 World Technology Award. She is passionate about Science, Technology,
Engineering and Math (STEM) education, and has been an active member o the
Society o Women Engineers and American Society o Mechanical Engineers or the
last decade. Wesser graduated with Honors rom the University o Central Florida
with BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering.
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Jesse White, Jr.
Jesse White, Jr., recently retired as the ounding Director o the
Oce o Economic and Business Development at the University
o North Carolina at Chapel Hill He is an Adjunct Proessor in theSchool o Government. Prior to coming to UNC-Chapel Hill in
January 2003, he headed the Appalachian Regional Commission
and the Southern Growth Policies Board. White was also a Fellow at the Institute
o Politics at Harvard University in 1990 and a private consultant in economic
development. He is a Fellow o the National Academy o Public Administration
and serves on the boards o Regional Technology Strategies, Triangle Tomorrow,
the Institute or Rural Journalism and Community Issues, the Association o
Appalachian Colleges, the William F. Winter Institute or Racial Reconciliation,and the Rural School and Community Trust. White earned his BA at the University
o Mississippi in political science and history, a masters degree in international
relations at the University o Sussex as Mississippis rst Marshall Scholar, and his
PhD in political science at the Massachusetts Institute o Technology.
Ted ZollerTed Zoller is director o the Center or Entrepreneurial Studies
and associate proessor o strategy and entrepreneurship at the
Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University o North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, and serves as a Senior Fellow at the Ewing Marion
Kauman Foundation. An active practicing entrepreneur, Zoller
has taught entrepreneurship courses at UNC Kenan-Flagler since 1999, oversees
the Centers teaching and outreach programs, and is the primary liaison or thebusiness school to UNCs university-wide Innovate@Carolina initiative and to
partners in the Research Triangle Park entrepreneurial community. He is ounder o
CommonWeal Ventures, a global venture analytics services rm, a small business
owner, and serves on the boards o numerous entrepreneurial ventures, including
the Executive Committee o the Council o Entrepreneurial Development and the
boards o Idea Fund Partners, Southeast TechInventures, and the New Markets
Venture Funds. He holds a PhD rom UNC-Chapel Hill, masters degrees rom the
Maxwell School at Syracuse University and the University o Virginia ocusing on
entrepreneurship and economic development, and a dual bachelors degree rom
the College o William & Mary.