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Appendix B: Biographies of Speakers
Appendix B: Biographies of Speakers
Pages 140-162
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Mr. Abercrombie served in the State House of Representatives from 1975 to 1979 and in the State Senate from 1979 to 1986.
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House in 1976, Congressman Akaka was appointed to the Senate when Senator Spark Matsunaga passed away, subsequently winning election to the office in 1990, and re-election in 1994, 2000, and 2006. Senator Akaka is chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia.
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is the president and Chief Executive Officer of Hawaii Science and Technology Council and Institute. Most recently Keiki-Pua was the executive vice president of Synedgen, Inc.
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She previously served as chancellor of UC Santa Cruz during a period of great growth in academics programs, research initiatives, faculty hiring, and facilities development. A national leader on science and technology policy and an expert on higher education policy issues, Greenwood served as associate director and consultant to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and chair of the National Academies Policy and Global Affairs Division.
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COLLEEN HANABUSA Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa proudly represents Hawaii's 1st Congressional District. Congresswoman Hanabusa grew up in Waianae and graduated from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa where she received a bachelor of arts in economics and sociology, a master of arts in sociology, and a law degree from the William S
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Burns School of Medicine since March 2008, is known around the country as co-author of one of the leading texts in patient care, Roberts and Hedges' Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine, now in its fifth edition.
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Dr. Hedges' leadership helped OHSU earn recognition as one of the "top 10" National Institutes of Health-funded academic emergency medicine research departments in the nation.
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In 2003, Mr. Ho was promoted to group executive vice president in charge of the bank's Hawaii Commercial Banking Group and was made a member of the company's Managing Committee.
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Early in his tenure in the Senate, Senator Inouye delivered the keynote address at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and was under consideration to become Hubert Humphrey's vice-presidential running mate that same year. He became the first chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 1976 and served as the third-ranking leader among Senate Democrats as secre tary of the Democratic Conference from January 1979 through 1988.
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He has a son, Ken, who is married to Jessica Carroll from Rochester, New York, and a granddaughter Mary Margaret "Maggie" Inouye. MAURICE KAYA Maurice Kaya joined Hawaii Renewable Energy Development Venture in 2008; as project director he is responsible for the strategic direction and overall execution of the project.
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Mr. Kilmer received the Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award for the CommerceConnect initiative, the Silver Medal Award for leadership as the NIST MEP liaison to the interagency Technology Reinvestment Project (TRP)
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Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives (CSSI)
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degree in chemical and biomolecular engineering. GINGER LEW Ginger Lew is senior counselor to the White House National Economic Council and the Small Business Administration (SBA)
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Lew was the deputy administrator and chief operating officer of the Small Business Administration where she provided day-to-day management and operational oversight of a $42 billion loan portfolio. Before joining SBA, Ms.
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Proenza is on the executive committee and the National Innovation Initiative Leadership Council of the Council on Competitiveness, co-chairs its Regional Leadership Institute Steering Committee, and serves on the Steering Committee for the Energy Security, Innovation and Sustainability Initiative. He also is on the Council on Foreign Relations, The National Academies' Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable, the Technology Innova tion Program Advisory Board for the National Institute of Standards and Tech nology, and 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.
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Mr. Rosenblum is on the boards of the High Technology Development Corporation, the Hawaii Employers Council, the Aloha Council, and Boy Scouts of America, and he is a member of the Hawaii Business Roundtable.
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Straney served as dean of science at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where he was also professor of biological sciences. He had joined Cal Poly Pomona in 2002 after spending 23 years at Michigan State University, where he served as chair of the Department of Zoology from 1986 to 1995 and as assistant to the provost for faculty develop ment from 1995 to 2002.
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Taylor has provided technology and management support to a variety of federal agencies including the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the Department of Defense and private-sector firms such as General Electric on a broad spectrum of technology issues including homeland security, innovation management and commercialization of space as examples. He is the former chair, Small Business Committee, National Defense Industrial Association, and has served on numerous advisory committees.
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Dr. Walker is a former member of the Senior Executive Service and served as the senior advisor for science and technology at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency from 2000 to 2003.
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MARY WALSHOK Mary Lindenstein Walshok, Ph.D., a sociologist, is associate vice chancellor and dean of the Extension Division at the University of California, San Diego. Over three decades, she has been a catalyst in building regional collaborations focused on high-tech cluster development (UCSD CONNECT)
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Reflecting the strong global interest in innovation, he is frequently asked to address issues of shared policy interest with foreign gov ernments, universities, research institutes, and international organizations, often briefing government ministers and senior officials. He has a strong commitment to international cooperation, reflected in his work with a wide variety of countries around the world.
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He is also directing a major study on best practice in global innovation programs, titled Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century. Today's meeting "E Kamakani Noi'i" forms part of a complementary analysis entitled Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives .
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She previously served as the director of the Center on the Family, CTAHR's associate dean for academic affairs, UH Mānoa director of Equal Employment Opportunity, and UH's employee relations administrator. Her graduate work was conducted at the University of Illinois and the University of Hawaii, and she received additional training at the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, and Harvard University.
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