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APPENDIX B: BIOGRAPHIES OF SPEAKERS
APPENDIX B: BIOGRAPHIES OF SPEAKERS
Pages 129-146
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including the Ben Franklin Technology Partners; the Tobacco Settlement Investment Board; Life Science Greenhouses; Venture Capital Investment Program; Industrial Resource Centers; and additional targeted technology investments. Rebecca managed for DCED, the $650 million Energy Independence Strategy that was signed into law in July 2008.
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Mr. Bendis has or continues to provide global consulting services to several international organizations including the International Science Parks and Innovation Expert Group, the United Nations, NATO, UK Trade and Industry, European Commission, French Embassy, the German Marshall Fund, and others global ventures.
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Bo-Linn, MD, is the chief program officer for the Foundation's San Francisco Bay Area Program, which includes the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative, the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis Commitment, and areas of focus including Science and Technology Museums and Land Protection. George comes to the Foundation with over 25 years of extensive executive leadership and expertise in the field of healthcare including medical research, private practice, health insurance plans, nursing and physician organizations, and health/hospital systems.
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He is guiding the transformation of ASU into one of the nation's leading public metropolitan research universities, an institution combining academic excellence, inclusiveness to a broad demographic, and maximum societal impact. During his tenure ASU has established major interdisciplinary research initiatives such as the Biodesign Institute, the Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS)
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From 1998 to 2006, she worked at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, eventually becoming vice provost and chief technology officer. While in that position she also represented the region's three major research universities on the leadership team of the corporate consortium that competed successfully in 2004 to manage the five-year R&D Services Support Contract for the U.S.
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He is responsible for a grant-making portfolio that promotes entrepreneurship and economic opportunity within innovation clusters deriving from the region's academic and industrial research asset base. A particular focus for this work is on collaborative and industry-led efforts to create green jobs that can offer family-sustaining career paths.
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He has served as vice president of the Pittsburgh chapter of the National Black MBA Association, president of the Three Rivers Investment Club, and elected keynote speaker for Leadership Pittsburgh XXV. As an interdisciplinary international studies fellow he worked with education programs in Venezuela, Brazil, South Africa, Kenya, India, Vietnam, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Japan.
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His decade long local and regional government service included an appointment to the Washington Public Power Supply System Participants' Review Board and a tour as Special Regional Resource to the House Bonneville Power Administration Task Force.
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supports technology ventures in South Carolina with seed money, counsel, and facilities in an effort to grow high-paying technology jobs in the state. McNamara, who is an adjunct professor at the University of South Carolina and Midlands Technical College, comes to SCRA from two start-ups.
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Mills has been a leading voice in the U.S. competitiveness discussion and is author of an influential Brookings Institution paper on the federal role in regional economic development clusters, geographic concentrations of interconnected businesses that share knowledge and resources to spur innovation, economic growth and higher wage employment.
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Before moving to New York to launch The Deal in 1999, 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 & Company publication, and Institutional Investor magazine. Paisley served as the editor of Institutional Investor's Asia edition for five years, winning an Overseas Press Club award for his coverage of the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China in 1997.
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Research and Development Investments, Technology Transfer, Alternative Energy, Energy Efficiency and Advanced Manufacturing, Personalized Medicine, Information Technology, and Nanotechnology. He now serves on the Council on Competitiveness' executive committee and its National Innovation Initiative Leadership Council, and co-chairs its Regional Leadership Institute Steering Committee.
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Together, they built the 44foot sailing vessel, Apogee, which they sail on Lake Erie. ANDREW REAMER Andrew Reamer is a fellow in the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program.
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In addition, Samors works closely with APLU's Congressional Affairs staff on federal technology policy issues in Congress and the Executive Branch. Prior to joining APLU, Samors served for seven years as the associate vice president for federal relations for the University of North Carolina system, opening the UNC Washington Office in April 1999.
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from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Baltimore. JEAN TOAL EISEN Jean Toal Eisen was recently named deputy director of the Office of Policy and Strategic Planning at the Department of Commerce.
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Turner has received standards medals from ASME, ANSI, and ASTM, as well as awards from the World Standards Day, The Association of University Technology Managers, the American Society for Engineering Education, the Virginia Engineering Foundation, the Federal Patent Lawyer Association, the Technology Transfer Society; the National Institute of Building Sciences, the Federal Laboratory Consortium; and the Semiconductor Industry Association. He is an Honorary Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the U.S.
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He is also directing a major study on best practice in global innovation programs, entitled Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century. Today's meeting on Growing Innovation Clusters for American Prosperity forms part of a complementary analysis entitled Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State & Regional Innovation Initiatives.
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