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Appendix D
Biographical Sketches of Workshop Presenters
WILLIAM F. BANHOLZER (NAE) is the Executive Vice President at Ventures, New
Business Development and Licensing, and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Dow
Chemical Company. He is a member of Dow’s Executive Leadership Committee, which
is responsible for corporate strategy and financial performance, and is also a member of
the Strategy Board, responsible for the review and approval of the Company’s strategy
and resource allocation decisions. As CTO, Dr. Banholzer has responsibility for driving
innovation, for value creation, and for leading Dow’s global research and development
activities, directing an annual budget of $1.7 billion. Dr. Banholzer co-leads Dow’s
Innovation and Growth Team, which oversees all of Dow’s Innovation programs,
including new growth platforms. In addition, he serves on Dow’s Venture Capital Board,
the Dow Kokam Board, Dow AgroScience’s Members Committee, and the Dow
Foundation. He is a member of the board of directors for the Dow Corning Corporation,
serving on the Corporate Responsibility Committee. Prior to arriving at Dow, Dr.
Banholzer had a 22-year career with General Electric Company (GE); as Vice President
of Global Technology at GE Advanced Materials, he was responsible for worldwide
technology and engineering. During his GE career, Dr. Banholzer was honored with
GE’s Bronze, Silver, and Gold Patent Awards; GE Superabrasives’ Leadership Award;
GE Plastics’ CEO Six Sigma Award; and election to the Whitney Gallery of Technical
Achievers. In 2002, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Dr.
Banholzer serves on advisory boards for chemistry and chemical engineering at the
University of California, Berkeley, and for the chemical engineering department at the
University of Wisconsin, and he serves on the National Research Council’s Board on
Energy and Environmental Systems. He is a member of the American Chemical Society
and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He holds 16 U.S. patents and has
more than 80 publications. Dr. Banholzer earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from
Marquette University and master’s and doctorate degrees in chemical engineering from
the University of Illinois.
GILBERT F. DECKER is a private consultant for several clients, including the U.S.
Army, the U.S. Navy, and several corporations. Recently (May 2010 to February 2011),
Mr. Decker co-chaired a commision appointed by the Secretary of the Army to conduct
an in-depth review of the Army acquisition process, from requirements definition to
production, and to provide findings and recommendations for improvements in quality
and efficiency. Previously, Mr. Decker served as a commissioned officer in the U.S.
Army and as a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. Before becoming a private consultant,
he held several distinguished positions, including the following: President and Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of the Penn Central Federal Systems Company; Vice President
and General Manager of the Defense Systems Group of TRW, Inc.; President and CEO of
Acurex Corporation; President and CEO of ESL, Inc.; and Assistant Secretary of the
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Army for Research, Development, and Acquisition, a position in which he served from
1993 through 1997. After his service as Assistant Secretary, he served as Executive Vice
President for Engineering, Manufacturing, and Program Management of Walt Disney
Imagineering. Honors presented to Mr. Decker include the Distinguished Public Service
Medal from the Department of Defense, the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal from
the Department of the Army, the Meritorious Service Medal from the U.S. Army, and the
Distinguished Alumni Award from the Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Decker currently
serves on the National Advisory Council for the Johns Hopkins University Whiting
School of Engineering. He also serves on the advisory board of the Carnegie Mellon
University Software Engineering Institute. He previously served on the National
Research Council’s Board on Army Science and Technology (BAST). He is the Vice
President and a director of the Hertz Foundation. He was formerly a director of Alliant
TechSystems for 10 years, a director of Anteon Corporation for 10 years, and a director
of the Allied Defense Group for 10 years. He served as a trustee for the Association of
the U.S. Army and is a sustaining member. Mr. Decker holds a B.S. in electrical
engineering from the John Hopkins University and an M.S. in operations research from
Stanford University. He undertook his military education as a U.S. Army Reserve Officer
at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College as well as at the Industrial College
of the Armed Forces.
ROY LEVIN is a Distinguished Engineer and Managing Director of Microsoft Research,
Silicon Valley, which he co-founded in August 2001. The laboratory at present numbers
approximately 75 researchers working in the area of distributed computing and related
disciplines and operates in a highly collaborative style that embraces the technical
spectrum from theory to practice. From 1996 until he joined Microsoft, Dr. Levin was the
Director of the Digital/Compaq Systems Research Center in Palo Alto, California.
Previously he had been a senior researcher in the Center since its founding in 1984.
During those years he was a primary contributor and project leader for the Vesta software
configuration management system and for the Topaz multiprocessor programming
environment and its micro-kernel operating system. Before joining Digital, Dr. Levin was
a researcher at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, where he was a principal developer
and project co-leader of Cedar, an experimental programming environment for high-
performance workstations. He was also a developer of Grapevine, a landmark electronic
mail system. Dr. Levin received his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon
University and his B.S. in mathematics from Yale University. He is a Fellow of the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a former chair of its Special Interest
Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS), and a co-recipient of the ACM SIGOPS 2008
Hall of Fame Award. He is the author or a co-author of approximately 25 technical
papers, books, and patents.
J. STEPHEN ROTTLER is Chief Technology Officer and Vice President for Science and
Technology at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), located in Albuquerque, New
Mexico, and Livermore, California. Dr. Rottler is the executive responsible for
leadership and management of corporate research and development and capabilities
stewardship at SNL. He is also responsible for leadership of technology transfer and
strategic research relationships with universities, industry, and the State of New Mexico.
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In his previous position as Chief Engineer for Nuclear Weapons and Vice President for
Weapon Engineering and Product Realization, Dr. Rottler was the Central Technical
Authority for nuclear weapons and led all nuclear weapons engineering and production
activities at Sandia. Prior to serving in that position, Dr. Rottler served in a number of
senior leadership positions at the Laboratories. He has been responsible for nuclear
warhead system engineering and integration, development of high-performance
electronic systems, and system analyses and assessments for SNL and National Nuclear
Security Administration senior management. He also managed organizations and
programs responsible for the research, development, and application of advanced
computational and experimental techniques in the engineering sciences. As a member of
the SNL technical staff, Dr. Rottler was part of a research team that developed
multidimensional radiation-hydrodynamics simulation codes for nuclear weapons
applications, and he led projects that supported the development of advanced nuclear and
conventional weapons concepts. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics (AIAA), a member of the Institute’s Board of Directors, and a past
Chair of the AIAA’s Technical Committee on Management. He is a recipient of the
Department of the Air Force Award for Exemplary Civilian Service. Dr. Rottler is a
Fellow of Seminar XXI at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently
serving or has served on the board of directors of the United Kingdom Atomic Weapons
Establishment, New Mexico Humanities Council, Albuquerque Explora Science Museum,
and Technology Ventures Corporation. He is a member of the external advisory board
for the Texas A&M University Dwight Look College of Engineering. He has led or
served on independent review panels for the U.S. Navy Strategic Systems Programs
Office and the United Kingdom Atomic Weapons Establishment. Dr. Rottler received his
B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in nuclear engineering from Texas A&M University in
1980, 1982, and 1984, respectively. He has published papers, reports, and conference
presentations on the development and application of computational radiation-
hydrodynamics codes.
JOHN C. SOMMERER leads the Space Sector at the Johns Hopkins University Applied
Physics Laboratory (APL), which provides the Department of Defense and the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with essential capabilities in combat and
guided missile systems, air and missile defense, space science and exploration, strategic
systems test and evaluation, submarine security, information technology and
communications systems, modeling and simulation, and research and development. Since
August 2008, Dr. Sommerer has been responsible for APL’s Civilian Space Area and
National Security Space Business Area. APL is responsible for executing NASA’s
MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging)
mission to Mercury, New Horizons mission to Pluto, STEREO (Solar Terrestrial
Relations Observatory) heliophysics mission, and TIMED (Thermospere Ionosphere
Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics) Earth science mission (all under way); Radiation
Belt Storm Probes mission to explore the Van Allen Belts (in spacecraft development);
and Solar Probe Plus mission to explore the Sun’s outer atmosphere (in engineering and
mission design). APL is Technical Direction Agent for the Precision Tracking Space
System, a national security mission sponsored by the Missile Defense Agency. Prior to
his current assignment, Dr. Sommerer was APL’s Director of Science and Technology
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and Chief Technology Officer, managing the laboratory’s research and development
program and S&T strategy; overseeing its Office of Technology Transfer and its support
of the educational programs of the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering; and
serving as primary technical liaison with the academic divisions of the university. He
chaired APL’s Science and Technology Council, charged with ensuring that the
laboratory always has the technical capabilities required to meet its mission. He has been
with APL since 1980, holding technical and management positions in five of its
departments and leading the development of an APL strategic plan for its core mission
areas that identified three new initiatives now accounting for 30 percent of APL’s
program activities and over 100 percent of APL’s program growth since 1999. He served
as head of the Milton S. Eisenhower Research and Technology Center for 9 years; under
his leadership, it more than tripled in size, and enabled APL to enter two new areas of
service to the nation. Dr. Sommerer received B.S. (summa cum laude) and M.S. (with
honors) degrees in systems science and mathematics from Washington University in St.
Louis, an M.S. (with honors) in applied physics from the Johns Hopkins University, and a
Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland. Prior to assuming executive
responsibilities, he established an international reputation in nonlinear dynamics, making
both theoretical and experimental contributions to the field. His personal research has
been featured on the covers of both Science and Nature. He was a member of the editorial
board of The Physical Review (1999-2005). In 2011, Dr. Sommerer was named as one of
the inaugural Daniel Coit Gilman Scholars of the Johns Hopkins University, designating
him as one of the foremost thought leaders within the University. He was also elected to
the International Academy of Astronautics. He serves on multiple standing technical
advisory bodies for the U.S. government, including the Naval Research Advisory
Committee (he served a 2-year term as Vice Chair and a 2-year term as Chair), reporting
to the Secretary of the Navy. He has also been a member of three National Research
Council (NRC) standing boards and committees, as well as having participated in
numerous ad hoc NRC studies; he was named a National Associate of the NRC in 2008.
He has received a number of awards, including being named Maryland’s Distinguished
Young Scientist in 1994. He was an adviser to the Howard County, Maryland, new
business incubator, NeoTech, during its formation, and he served as a director of the Jim
Rouse Entrepreneurial Fund.
JAMES H. TURNER is the Counsel and Director of Energy Programs at the Association
of Public and Land-grant Universities and the former chief counsel to the U.S. House of
Representatives Committee on Science and Technology. Mr. Turner studied mathematics
at Westminster College, social ethics at Yale Divinity School, and law at Georgetown
University. He completed the Senior Managers in Government Program at the Harvard
Kennedy School, is on the board of Oak Ridge Associated Universities, and was
Academic Vice Chair for the President’s Advisory Committee for the Carnegie Mellon
Heinz College. Recognizing the need to link technical expertise with federal policy, he
set up a lecture series of senior Washington, D.C., officials for the Washington internship
program for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Later, Dean Richard
Miksad of the University of Virginia expanded the program to include the University of
Virginia. Mr. Turner advises the program, helps interns find placements, and organizes a
summer speaker series. He serves as a trustee of the University of Virginia School of
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Engineering and Applied Science and as chair of the advisory board of its Department of
Science, Technology and Society. In 2010, to honor his 10 years of service to the S&T
Policy Internship program, the alumni of the the University of Virginia program named
the annual end-of-summer research symposium after him.
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