Transformative Regional Engagement (TRE) Roundtable

Roundtable & Annual Meeting | December 5-7, 2011

Accelerating Regional Solutions: Finding Unique Pathways to American Prosperity

LEnfant Plaza Hotel | Washington, DC

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John Bardo
John Bardo recently retired as the Chancellor of Western Carolina University, a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina. His previous positions include chief academic officer, dean, department head and professor in universities in the U.S., the United Kingdom, Australia, and Turkey. Bardos primary interests are in institutional strategy and mission; the roles of universities in the globalized economy; institutional accreditation and outcomes; and managing change in higher education. Bardos most recent work involves developing measures of state innovation and competitiveness and educational restructuring to promote competitiveness and he is completing work on a book focused on the relationship between higher education policy and the new economy. Bardo has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and he is currently completing his term as a member of the Commissions Executive Committee. He also chaired the Economic Development Committee for the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and served as a member of the Minority Interests Committee of the NCAA.

Dan Carol
Dan Carol is the Director of Multi-State Initiatives for Oregon Governor Kitzhaber. A member of the Clinton Global Initiative and a co-founder of the Clean Economy Network, Carol also teaches public policy at the University of Oregon. Previously, he was the Senior Fellow for Innovation and Clean Economy at NDN and the New Policy Institute, where he focused on bottom-up and regional innovation, and held positions as an environmental and energy budget analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, a Presidential Management Fellow, and a trend consultant for the Congressional Institute for the Future. In 2008, Carol served as the Content & Issues Director for the Obama for President Campaign, where he guided the launches of Obamas NewEnergyforAmerica.com plan and Clean Tech and Green Business Leaders for Obama (CT40). A long-time catalyst and evangelist for building new approaches for a Green New Deal, Carol spearheaded the creation of The Apollo Alliance, an early, post 9/11 effort to promote a moon mission national commitment to energy independence.

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Anthony Chirchirillo
Anthony Chirchirillo is the CEO of Chirch Global Manufacturing. He began his professional career as a CPA in the Chicago office of KPMG, specializing in the health care industry. He was widely recognized as one the countrys foremost experts in assisting financially distressed health care institutions. In 1991, Chirchirillo launched the Chirchirillo Company, followed by Chirch Global Manufacturing in 2002. Chirch Global is a family owned business that specializes in procuring high quality manufacturing 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 of their founder and operate within the context of a clearly defined Statement of Values. Those values emphasize the importance of integrity and the commitment to family that is the foundation 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 of Harvard Business School and Loyola University of Chicago.

Aneesh Chopra
Aneesh Chopra is the United States Chief Technology Officer and in this role serves as an Assistant to the President and Associate Director for Technology within the Office of Science & Technology Policy. He works to advance the Presidents technology agenda by fostering new ideas and encouraging government-wide coordination to help the country meet its goals from job creation, to reducing health care costs, to protecting the homeland. Prior to his appointment, he served as Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia from 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 from The Johns Hopkins University and his MPP from Harvards Kennedy School.

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Paul J. Corson
Paul J. Corson serves in the U.S. Department of Commerces Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, where he promotes policies and programs to support highgrowth entrepreneurship, the acceleration of technology commercialization, and the development of 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 Taskforce on Space Industry Work Force and Economic Development report to the President, and led Departmental efforts to cohost the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship. Prior to joining the Department, Paul held senior management positions for entrepreneurial firms and start-ups in the United States, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. He holds an MA in International Relations from The George Washington University and a BA in Political Economies from Franklin and Marshall College.

Rena Cotsones
Rena Cotsones is assistant vice president for regional engagement at Northern Illinois University. In that position, she is responsible for creating a comprehensive engagement strategy for Rockford, a blue-collar city still seeking its place in the modern marketplace. Cotsones works to expand the communitys understanding of NIU in the region and facilitates partnerships with the communitys educational, public policy and corporate sectors. Previously, Cotsones served as executive director of community relations for NIU at its main campus in DeKalb. She worked as executive vice president of the Rockford Chamber of Commerce before coming to NIU, and remains active with the chamber as well as the Rockford Area Economic Development Council and the Rockford Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. Cotsones holds a BS from Illinois State University, a MPA from NIU, and is finishing a PhD in political science at NIU.

Paul Crawford
Paul Crawford is a member of the Division of Outreach, Engagement and Information Technologies at Northern Illinois University, where he has two assignments: Director of PASCAL International Initiatives, and Director of Community College Relations. Crawford is one of four co-Directors for the PASCAL

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International Observatory, with colleagues in Africa, Australia and Europe. Prior to coming to NIU, Paul served as Director of 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 Daffner is the Entrepreneurship Initiative Manager at the Appalachian Regional Commission. Daffner focuses on financial and technical resources to local, state and nonprofit organizations to support the development of entrepreneurial businesses. Previously, Daffner, worked in the software, research and manufacturing industries, and for six years was the executive director of the Northwest Wood Products Association. He received a BS in biochemistry from Duke University and an MBA from Yale University.

Emily DeRocco
Emily DeRocco is president of The Manufacturing Institute, the non-profit, non-partisan affiliate of the National Association of Manufacturers. DeRocco has launched and implemented a strategic national agenda on education reform and workforce development, innovation support and services, and research on behalf of U.S. manufacturers. Under her leadership, the Institute has developed and deployed a system of nationally portable, industry-recognized Manufacturing Skills Certifications; chaired the National Thought Leaders Forum on linking the nations high performance supercomputing capacity to manufacturers; and released leadingedge research. Prior to this position, DeRocco served as Assistant Secretary of 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 for Americas businesses. DeRocco also brings over 10 years of private sector experience in managing a national nonprofit organization and prior federal government experience at the Departments of Energy and Interior, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission. DeRocco is a proud graduate of The Pennsylvania State University and received her Juris Doctorate from the Georgetown Law Center.

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John Freisinger
John Freisinger is president and CEO of Technology Ventures Corporation (TVC), where he previously served as the Director of Project Management. Founded by the Lockheed Martin Corporation, TVC helps startup companies that are developing technology from 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 of sales and marketing, VP of business development, and head of mergers and acquisitions for numerous technology startups. He has a successful track record of helping to structure companies for equity funding and acquisition. He also has experience in such diverse industries as hotel management, beverage sales, library sciences, informatics, computer-aided whole-language translation, computer systems integration, supercomputing, video and film post production, oil and gas exploration, and home automation. Freisinger also professionally 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 from the University of New Mexico.

Maryann Feldman
Maryann Feldman is the Heninger Distinguished Professor in the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina. Her research and teaching interests focus on the areas of innovation, the commercialization of academic research and the factors that promote technological change and economic growth. A large part of Feldmans work concerns the geography of innovation investigating the reasons why innovation clusters spatially and the mechanisms that support and sustain industrial clusters. She has written extensively on the early development and growth of biotechnology, as an example of a transformative technology. Feldmans previous appointments include the University of Toronto, the University of Georgia and Johns Hopkins University. Feldman is currently Principal Investigator on a NSF-funded project that examines state economic development policies. This work aims to understand what policies are most appropriate in different ecosystems and under different economic conditions. Feldman earned her BA at the Ohio State University as well as MS and PhD degrees from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Charles Fluharty
Charles Fluharty is the Founder, President, and CEO of the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI), the only national policy institute in the U.S. solely dedicated to assessing the rural impacts of public policies. Since RUPRIs founding in 1990, over 300 scholars representing 16 different disciplines in 100 universities, all U.S. states and 30 other nations have participated in RUPRI projects, which address the full range of policy and program dynamics affecting rural people and places. Collaborations with the OECD, the EU, the German Marshall Fund, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, the International Rural Network and other international organizations are framing RUPRIs comparative rural policy foci. A Research Professor in the Harry S Truman School of Public Affairs at the University of MissouriColumbia, and a German Marshall Fund Transatlantic Fellow, he also holds an Adjunct Faculty appointment in the University of Missouri Department of Rural Sociology. The author of numerous policy studies and journal articles, he has presented dozens of Congressional testimonies and briefings. He holds a BA from the University of Steubenville and a MDiv from Yale University.

Tim Franklin
Tim Franklin is the Chief Operating Officer and Secretary of TRE Networks. Previously, Franklin served as Director of the Office of Public Partnerships & Engagement at the Pennsylvania State University, developing relationships with state and federal government agencies, economic and workforce development organizations, 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 of University Outreach Programs, Southside Virginia, for Virginia Tech, leading the Universitys Southside Initiative, a broad-scale effort to define its 21st Century land-grant mission. In that role, Franklin was the founding Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR), a unique regional stewarding institution that serves as a catalyst for the revitalization of 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 for 2007 awarded by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU).
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Shari Garmise
Shari Garmise is the Vice President, USU/ APLU Office of Urban Initiatives for the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities (APLU) and the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities (USU), where she leads an urban agenda that seeks to harness the collective power of public research universities to remake our cities as vital, competitive, creative places with opportunities for all. Previously, Garmise served as Vice President for Knowledge Management and Development at the International Economic Development Council and Assistant Professor of Economic Development at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. Garmise has over 20 years of experience in economic and urban development in the United States and Europe, working on diverse economic and urban developmentrelated issues. Garmise recently published People and the Competitive Advantage of Place: Building a 21st Century Workforce 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 professional reports and policy analyses. Garmise received her PhD from the London School of Economics.

Todd Hardy
Todd Hardy leads Arizona State Universitys SkySong, the universitys economic development and global enterprise unit responsible for the creation of strategic alliances with businesses and governments driving innovation and growth in domestic and global markets. Hardy is responsible for engaging the expertise of faculty and the resources of ASU in the development of entrepreneurial enterprises, support of new entrants to markets in Arizona and Western United State, and pursuit of collaborative research initiatives with commercial partners in select industries. Prior to joining ASU, Hardy was the Executive Director of Digital Knowledge Ventures, the new media entrepreneurial unit of Columbia University. Throughout his career, including more than twenty-five years as corporate counsel to Fortune 500 and NASDAQ firms and co-founder of a number of startup and early stage enterprises, he has been a leader in the formation and operation of innovative enterprises. Hardy received a BS in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University; a JD from the Washington College of Law at American University; and a MS in Real Estate Development from Columbia University in the City of New York.

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Michael Harris
Michael Harris is the Chancellor of Indiana University Kokomo and Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, Education and Business. He has published four books (a fifth is forthcoming). He has also published close to 40 articles in a variety of journals. He has been acknowledged nationally and internationally for his work in leading change and enhancing innovation and entrepreneurship. Harris has a successful track record working toward regional transformation and international collaboration currently in north central Indiana. Previously, Harris was provost and vice president for academic and student affairs at Kettering University, vice president for academic affairs at Ferris State University; associate provost (and interim provost) at Eastern Michigan University. He also taught at the Graduate Program in Public Policy at Tel Aviv University; was the vice president for finance & marketing at Tomer Industries in Israel; and served in the Israel Defense Forces and retired at the rank of major. He received his PhD in public policy from Indiana University, his masters from Tel-Aviv University, and his undergraduate degree in economics and business administration from Bar-Ilan University.

James Kadtke
James Kadtke is the Industry and State Liaison at the National Nanotechnology Coordinating Office, the interagency office coordinating all nanotechnology research in the US Federal Government. Previously, he served as Executive Director of the Accelerating Innovation Foundation, an adjunct faculty at the National Defense University and George Mason University, and a consultant to the government on policy and research in the defense, technology, and homeland security areas. From 1999 to 2001 he was a Fellow at the Rand Science and Technology Policy Institute, supporting the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and afterward spent a year on the Science Committee in the US House of Representatives. He then served nearly four years on the staff of Senator John Warner of Virginia, where he handled technology, defense, and business issues. He has also served as the Chief Scientist at Nonlinear Solutions, Inc. as well as over ten years as a research faculty at the University of California at San Diego. Kadtke received his PhD in physics from Brown University.

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Josef Konvitz
Josef Konvitz recently retired as the Head of Division, Regulatory Policy, for the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). Previously, he worked in the division of Urban Affairs and Policy at OECD and a professor of history at Michigan State University, specializing in early modern and modern European history, the history of science and technology, and urban history. A member of the Board of Editors of the Journal of Urban History, Konvitz served as guest editor of a special issue on the subject of 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 of Minnesota. In addition, he was honored with a visiting professorship from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in Paris. He received a Fellowship for Independent Study and a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was a Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. Konvitz received a BA with Honors in History from Cornell University and a PhD from Princeton University.

Vic Lechtenberg
Vic Lechtenberg is Director of the Purdue Center for Regional Development. He served as Vice Provost for Engagement at Purdue University from 2004-2007 and 2009-2011. Lechtenberg joined the Purdue faculty as a Professor of Agronomy in 1971 and taught crop science and conducted research on forage and biomass crops until 1982. He served as Associate Director of Agricultural Research Programs, and as the Executive Associate Dean of Agriculture from 1983 to 1993, and was Dean of Agriculture from 1993 to 2004. Since 2004, as Vice Provost for Engagement, he has been leading Purdues engagement and outreach efforts to governmental agencies, corporate leaders, schools and community leaders across Indiana and beyond. Lechtenberg is a member of several academic, professional, and scholarly societies and has written nearly 200 technical papers, abstracts, and book chapters. Lechtenberg is a native of Butte, Nebraska, where he grew up on a general livestock farm. He received his bachelors degree from the University of Nebraska and a doctorate from Purdue.

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Samuel Leiken
Samuel Leiken recently retired as vice president of the Council on Competitiveness, where he led its work on regional economic and workforce development. He was the principal investigator and author of the Councils recently published, EDA funded report, COLLABORATE Leading Regional Innovation Clusters. He also developed and directed Tapping Mature Talent (TMT), a foundation funded initiative providing technical assistance. Prior to coming to the Council, Sam served as Senior Policy Analyst in the division of Social, Economic and Workforce Policy at the National Governors Associations Center for Best Practices. At the NGA, he was involved in planning and delivering numerous training academies on economic development, workforce and education issues. Leiken previously served as the vice president for policy for the Council on Adult and Experiential Learning, and the founder and president of the Massachusetts Product Development Corporation, a state-owned, privately operated venture capital fund. A graduate of Columbia University, he holds an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, and a journeyman machinists license from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Ed Morrison
Ed Morrison is a member of the staff of the Center for Regional Development at Purdue University. For the past five or six years, he has been developing new, network-based models for economic and workforce development. These approaches emphasize the strategic value of focused regional collaborations and open innovation in todays global economy. As a part of 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 of Oklahoma Economic Development Institute. For over twenty years, he conducted strategy projects with economic and workforce developers in the U.S. His work won the first Arthur D. Little Award for excellence in economic development presented by the American Economic Development Council. Prior to starting his economic development work, Ed worked for Telesis, a corporate strategy consulting firm and also held several positions in the federal government. He holds a BA degree cum laude with honors from Yale University and MBA and JD degrees from the University of Virginia.

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Jayson Myers
Jayson Myers is the President & CEO of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, Canadas largest industry and trade association. CME is dedicated to improving business conditions for Canadas manufacturers and exporters and helping its more than 5,000 members compete and win in domestic and international markets. Mr. Myers is also the Chair of the Canadian Manufacturing Coalition, a coalition of over 40 industry associations that have come together to speak with a common voice on priority issues for Canadas manufacturing sector. Mr. Myers is a well-known economic commentator, and is widely published in the fields of Canadian and international economics, technological and industrial change. Mr. Myers sits on special advisory councils to the Minister for International Trade, the Minister of Industry, Immigration Canada, Human Resources Development Canada, and the Canadian Border Services Agency and is co-chair of Canadas Roundtable on Workforce Skills and Vice-Chair of both the Ontario Manufacturing Council and the Great Lakes Manufacturing Council. Mr. Myers studied at Queens University, Kingston and the University of British Columbia in Canada, and at the London School of Economics and Oxford University.

Jason Owen-Smith
Jason Owen-Smith is director of both the Organizational Studies Program and the Barger Leadership Institute at the University of Michigan. He holds the Barger Leadership Institute Professorship of Organizational Studies and is an Associate Professor in both the Department of Sociology and the Organizational Studies Program. Owen-Smith is a sociologist who examines how science, commerce, and the law cohere and conflict in contemporary societies and economies. Together with collaborators, Jason works on projects that examine the dynamics of hightechnology industries, the commercialization of academic research, and the science & politics of human embryonic stem cell research. He seeks to understand how organizations, institutions, and networks can maintain the status quo while generating novelty through social transformations, scientific discoveries, and technological breakthroughs. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Industries Studies Fellowship in Biotechnology. He received his MA and PhD degrees in Sociology at the University of Arizona and a BA in Sociology and Philosophy from the New College of Florida.

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Ed Paisley
Ed Paisley is Vice President for Editorial at the Center for American Progress and Editorial Director of Science Progress, a CAP project, where he concentrates on science and regional economic development. He is co-author of the report The Geography of Innovation: The Federal Government and the Growth of Regional Innovation Clusters. Ed is a 20-year veteran of business and finance journalism who joined American Progress after successfully 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, finance, and politics for the Far Eastern Economic Review, a Dow Jones & Co. publication, and Institutional Investor magazine. Paisley earned a masters degree in East Asian history from Georgetown University and a bachelors degree in American Studies from 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 for research and executive director of research administration at the University of Michigan. In that position, his work includes coordinating seed funding for new scholarly projects and special needs in the research community, as well as managing the Division of Research Development and Administration. Parnes has been active in the restructuring of technology transfer at the university, addressing the role and strategy of the institution in regional economic development, resulting in the formation of SPARK, a partnership between universities, government, and businesses to promote innovation in the Ann Arbor area. He is the Principal Investigator for the Michigan Initiative for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a statewide consortium of public universities. Parnes has served on many intellectual property and technology development committees and has recently served as Chair of the Council on Governmental Relations, a national association of research universities based in Washington, D.C. He is currently serving on the Executive Committee of the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities Commission on Innovation, Competitiveness & Economic Prosperity and is on the Board of TRE.

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Manuel Pastor
Manuel Pastor is Professor of Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and also serves as Director of USCs Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) and co-Director of USCs Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII). His research focuses on the economic, environmental and social conditions facing 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 offers a new set of strategies for both talking about race and achieving racial equity. In 2002 he was named a Civic Entrepreneur of the Year by the California Center for Regional Leadership. He was a founding director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Pastor holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MA and PhD in economics the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Erika Poethig
Erika Poethig was appointed by President Obama in 2009 to be Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development in the Office of Policy Development and Research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Poethig was most recently the Associate Director for Affordable Housing at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation where she focused on regional policy and practice, housing policy and research, and the Foundations $150 million special initiative for the preservation of affordable rental housing. Ms. Poethig also served as Assistant Commissioner for Policy, Resource and Program Development at the City of Chicagos Department of Housing, where she directed the departments city, state and federal policy agendas. Previously, she was Associate Project Director of the Metropolis Project, which resulted in the creation of the Metropolis 2020 agenda for regional leadership around the major issues faced by the metropolitan Chicago area. Poethig was a Phi Beta Kappa from the College of Wooster, a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Vienna, and graduated with honors with a MPP from the University of Chicago.

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Luis M. Proenza
Luis M. Proenza is President of The University of Akron and an experienced leader in national science and technology policy matters. Previously, he was Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School at Purdue University and held several senior positions at the University of Alaska. Dr. Proenza has served on the U.S. Arctic Research Commission (U.S. Presidential appointment); the Advisory Board of the U.S. Secretary of Energy, the NAS-NRC Committee on Vision, and the National Biotechnology Policy Board. In 2001, the President of the United States appointed Proenza to the Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Proenza is on the executive committee and the National Innovation Initiative Leadership Council of the Council on Competitiveness. He also is on the Council on Foreign Relations, The National Academies Government-UniversityIndustry Research Roundtable, the board of the States Science and Technology Institute, and he is Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities co-chair of the APLU/AAU Patent Reform Committee. He earned a BA from Emory University, an MA from The Ohio State University and a PhD from the University of Minnesota.

Wendy Puriefoy
Wendy Puriefoy is the founding president of Public Education Network (PEN), the nations largest network of community-based school reform organizations reaching more than 11 million children in 1,220 school districts and 18,000 schools nationwide. As president of PEN, Ms. Puriefoy has been the leading force behind systemic reform initiatives in school finance and governance, curriculum and assessment, parent involvement, school libraries and school health. With support from national foundations, PEN launched multi-million dollar public engagement initiatives focused on teacher quality, standards and accountability, and schools and community services. A nationally recognized expert on issues of school reform and civil society, Puriefoy is well known for her passionate advocacy of education equity for poor and disadvantaged children and has written and spoken extensively on the issues. Prior to joining PEN, Puriefoy was executive vice president and chief operating officer of The Boston Foundation, a community foundation with an endowment of over $750 million in Boston, Massachusetts. Puriefoy received a BA degree from William Smith College and holds three MA degrees from Boston University.

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Charles Rutheiser
Charles Rutheiser is a Senior Fellow in Annie E. Casey Foundations Center for Community and Economic Opportunity. He manages grant portfolios in Anchor Institutions, National Partnerships, and Knowledge Development and is part of 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 effort to build a mixed-income community of opportunity and life 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 Hopkins University, Bryn Mawr College, and Western Michigan University. He is the author of Imagineering Atlanta: the politics of place in the city of dreams. Rutheiser received a MA and PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the Johns Hopkins University, and a BA in Anthropology from New College of Florida.

John Schneider
John Schneider is Assistant Vice President of Industry Research at Purdue University. He joined Purdue in 1994 after spending twenty-seven years with the Dow Chemical Company. His office links Purdue University faculty members with industry and encourages corporate sponsorship of research. While with Dow, he had a varied management career with assignments in research, development, marketing, technical services, sales (District Sales Manager for New York area), marketing research, business profit/loss (Dow Brazil) and New Ventures. He has authored multiple articles and publications, including works on various chemical topics, fire retardancy, government regulations and product stewardship, entrepreneurship, and university-industry collaboration partnerships. He serves as the president of the board of the Access Technology Across Indiana (ATAIN); vice president of the board of the Great Lakes Manufacturing Council and treasurer of the board for Elevate Ventures, Inc. Schneider received a BA in chemistry from Albion College, Albion, Michigan and a PhD in organic chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Jeffrey Schwartz
Jeffrey Schwartz is the Education Program Manager for the Appalachian Regional Commission. Prior to coming to the Commission in December of 1999, Schwartz had been an independent consultant, a training specialist with various U.S. Department of Education funded 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 of appropriate educational programming for students with diverse educational needs and those that have been historically underserved. Schwartz is currently responsible for educational development at all levels from day care through pre-K-12, higher education, adult education and workforce training throughout the 13-state Appalachian Region. His formal educational background includes elementary and special education, instructional systems design, and educational administration.

Ted Settle
Ted Settle retired in 2010 as Director of Economic Development at Virginia Tech, where he provided leadership to university activities and initiatives that generated economic development throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. He was actively involved at the state level in economic development policy and in leading a renewed focus on manufacturing in Virginia. He provided thought leadership that began with two state-funded regional R&D centers and resulted in five Tobacco Commission-funded research centers across the distressed regions of southern and southwest Virginia. Settle has been active in the national university engagement and economic development conversations for several years, initiating and co-leading the development of the week-long Engagement Academy for University Leader. Settle previously served as Director of Continuing Education at Virginia Tech, Director of the NCR Management College at NCR Corporation with worldwide responsibility for management development, and Assistant Director for Academic and Health Affairs with the Illinois Board of Higher Education. He earned his BA in mathematics from Iowa State University, his MBA from Harvard University, and his PhD in higher education administration from the University of Michigan.

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Mark Skinner
Mark Skinner is Vice President of SSTI and has served as Director of the Regional Innovation Acceleration Network (RIAN) project for the past year. SSTI is a national nonprofit organization that strengthens state local and university-based efforts to expand regional economies through science, technology, and innovation. The RIAN project supports the community of existing and emerging Venture Development Organizations (VDOs) around the country by providing the means for peer-to-peer sharing of information and best/common practices; helping to identify funding opportunities for VDOs; and providing tools to help regions approach the creation of their own VDOs. Working with SSTI since 1998, Mr. Skinner was the long time editor of SSTIs e-publications, the SSTI Weekly Digest and the Funding Supplement. He has been the principal author or a co-author on a number of publications, including the EDA-funded A Resource Guide for Technology-based Economic Development. Mr. Skinner has extensive experience with small technology companies and federal research and development programs. Mr. Skinner received his BA in urban and regional planning from Miami University.

Charles M. Vest
Charles M. Vest is President of the National Academy of Engineering and President Emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His academic career began at the University of where he taught in the areas of heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics, and conducted research in heat transfer and engineering applications of laser optics and holography. He served as associate dean of engineering, dean of engineering and provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan, before being named as president of the Massachusetts Institute of 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 of open, global scientific communication, travel, and sharing of intellectual resources. He was awarded the 2006 National Medal of Technology by President Bush, and received the 2011 Vannevar Bush Award from the National Science Board. Vest earned a BS in mechanical engineering from West Virginia University, and MSE and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan.

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Wayne Watkins
Wayne Watkins is Associate Vice President for Research at The University of Akron and Adjunct Professor and Intellectual Property Fellow at The University of Akron School of Law. He serves as Vice President and directs the operations of the University of Akron Research Foundation, a regional innovation and wealth creation services organization. Watkins directs The University of 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 of the University Economic Development Association, a national organization supporting universities in economic development and innovation. Prior to his roles at The University of Akron in Ohio, Watkins served as Director of the Research and Technology Park and the Office of Technology Commercialization at Utah State University. He served as Vice President and Corporate Counsel of a diversified business holding company and was the administrator of the Utah Innovation Center. He currently serves on several boards of directors of 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 of Central Florida Venture Lab. She started her career in technology commercialization from the inventors side, having designed commercial medical and chemical analysis devices in the microscale. She began her technical marketing career at the Venture Lab as an intern, assisting dozens of 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 of Product Line Manager of start-up Planar Energy Devices, an advanced battery company, where she launched aggressive product development and marketing campaigns. These efforts 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 of the Society of Women Engineers and American Society of Mechanical Engineers for the last decade. Wesser graduated with Honors from the University of Central Florida with BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering.

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Jesse White, Jr.

Jesse White, Jr., recently retired as the founding Director of the Office of Economic and Business Development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill He is an Adjunct Professor in the School of 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 of Politics at Harvard University in 1990 and a private consultant in economic development. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and serves on the boards of Regional Technology Strategies, Triangle Tomorrow, the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, the Association of Appalachian Colleges, the William F. Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, and the Rural School and Community Trust. White earned his BA at the University of Mississippi in political science and history, a masters degree in international relations at the University of Sussex as Mississippis first Marshall Scholar, and his PhD in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ted Zoller
Ted Zoller is director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and associate professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and serves as a Senior Fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman 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 for the business school to UNCs university-wide Innovate@Carolina initiative and to partners in the Research Triangle Park entrepreneurial community. He is founder of CommonWeal Ventures, a global venture analytics services firm, a small business owner, and serves on the boards of numerous entrepreneurial ventures, including the Executive Committee of the Council of Entrepreneurial Development and the boards of Idea Fund Partners, Southeast TechInventures, and the New Markets Venture Funds. He holds a PhD from UNC-Chapel Hill, masters degrees from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and the University of Virginia focusing on entrepreneurship and economic development, and a dual bachelors degree from the College of William & Mary.

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