WBT Innovation Marketplace 2012 Agenda Speakers
David N. Allen
 Executive Director
Tech Launch Arizona - University of Arizona
Bryan Allinson
 Executive Director
University of Texas System
Bryan Allinson leads the Office of Technology Commercialization at the University of Texas System, working with all fifteen institutions of the University of Texas. As Executive Director, Bryan serves as the technology commercialization principal at the UT System where he directs access to resources, including capital and shared services, and other important resources necessary for commercialization of technology. He also helps identify critical pathways for thematic partnering through collaborative activities. Bryan organizes UT System reports to state and national commercialization and economic development agencies, including the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) and Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM).
Prior to his appointment, he served as Director of Technology Transfer at Ohio University, helping to monetize royalty revenue of SOMAVERT®, pharmaceutical product marketed by Pfizer, a deal valued at $52 million. He previously served as Director of Geisinger Ventures, a for-profit division of the Geisinger Health System, where he founded the technology commercialization office. Bryan served as a H. J. Heinz Technology Commercialization Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to his position with Geisinger Ventures, he was part of critical growth of several startup companies.
Bryan received dual bachelor of science degrees in chemical engineering and chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh and a master of business administration from Carnegie Mellon University.
Edgar Auslander
 Vice President
Qualcomm
Edgar Auslander is vice president of product management at Qualcomm. He is responsible for Qualcomm's chipset product roadmap management, planning and strategic direction.
Auslander has more than 20 years of experience in venture capital and general management at startups and Fortune 100 companies.
Prior to joining Qualcomm, he served as senior vice president of strategic planning at ST-Ericsson. Prior, he was a director at Intel, responsible for strategic alliances and engineering of mobile internet platforms as well as vice president at VantagePoint Venture Partners.
He was one of the founders of Texas Instruments' Wireless Business Unit and served as its general manager of worldwide strategy and corporate development. He also served as senior vice president of marketing at IXI Mobile Inc., a Silicon Valley start-up.
A senior member of IEEE, Auslander is co-author of The Applications of Programmable DSPs in Mobile Communications, published by Wiley. He has taught at the EDHEC Business School in France, published numerous articles and spoken at industry conferences worldwide.
Auslander holds a master’s in Business Administration from Columbia University and a master’s in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
Jerrod Bailey
 Vice President
Tallwave Venture Accelerator
Jerrod Bailey is Vice President and Practice Area Manager of Business Development at Tallwave. With 14 years of experience in telecommunications and systems integration industries in companies like Verizon, Reliance Globalcom, and Virtela Communications. Jerrod has served in Business Development, Marketing and Product roles for both large companies and startups, having delivered hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue and growth. For the last 2 years, Jerrod has run the Practice Area of Business Development at Arizona’s largest Venture Accelerator, Tallwave. In this time, Jerrod has assisted dozens of early stage ventures to achieve early market traction, strategic partnerships, first revenues and clients. Jerrod also maintains responsibility over Tallwave’s extensive network of operators, corporate partnerships, deal flow channels, funding partners, and community partners.
Sean Barr
 Vice President Economic Development
San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation
Sean Barr is currently the Vice President of Economic Development at the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation (EDC) where he is principally responsible for developing and executing an aggressive investment attraction program in support of San Diego’s key economic drivers and job growth strategy. Before joining the EDC, Sean was a Consul & Trade Commissioner at the Consulate of Canada in San Diego where he worked on the LEAP! intiative.
Sean has spent the majority of his career supporting the growth of information technology, biotech, aerospace and clean-tech industries throughout North America. Sean possesses 14+ years of advanced technology focused on economic development experience.
Sean possesses a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of Manitoba.
Jennifer L. Barry
 Partner
LATHAM & WATKINS LLP
Jennifer Barry is a partner in the Litigation Department of Latham & Watkins’ San Diego office. She joined the firm in September 2003 after earning her law degree from Duke University School of Law, where she was Chair of the Moot Court Board.
Ms. Barry specializes in all aspects of commercial intellectual property, including:
· Trademark and trade dress infringement counseling and litigation
· Trademark prosecution and worldwide trademark portfolio management
· Trademark licensing counseling and litigation
· False advertising and unfair competition litigation
· Copyright counseling and litigation
· Trade secrets counseling and litigation
· Defamation and right of publicity counseling and litigation
Having successfully litigated before numerous federal and state courts including in California, New York, Michigan, Utah, Indiana and Ohio, and the Patent and Trademark Office's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, Ms. Barry has extensive expertise in both procedural and substantive law in these areas.
Ms. Barry also has specialized expertise in internet law, and is a member of Latham’s Internet & Digital Media Industry Group. She handles domain name portfolio management and recovery of domain names in front of the World Intellectual Property Organization, the National Arbitration Forum, and the ADR.EU Center of the Czech Arbitration Court. She has also worked extensively on social networking and website/e-commerce issues, and has been invited to speak on several panels in this area.
Rodney Bowen-Wright
 Director
Microsoft Corporation
Rodney Bowen-Wright is a Director of Business Development at Microsoft and manages Enterprise, Vertical Markets
and Mobility portfolios globally in the Strategic and Emerging Business Group.
The Microsoft Emerging Business Group is a corporate function chartered to source, recruit and incubate next generation businesses and business models across market domains globally. This includes diverse areas like Digital Media, Mobility and Business Applications.
Rodney is currently one of seven panelists in the Microsoft BizSpark One program which selects new and innovative companies and chartered to find Microsoft's next big technology bets. The team currently manages a diverse portfolio of companies across domains including Enterprise, Gaming, Online and Cloud based businesses.
He is also has responsible for Microsoft Dynamics which is a platform for building line of business applications across vertical industries. Rodney holds a Masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and prior to Microsoft held various leadership roles and architected several successful commercial products for Time Warner and Cadence Design Systems (his previous employers).
Ed Bryant
 Partner
KPMG LLP
Ed is an Audit Partner in KPMG’s San Diego office specializing in the life science and technology industries. Ed is a leader if KPMG’s Venture Capital practice providing audit services to both private and public companies. Ed has significant experience in capital raising transactions has assisted several companies with initial public offerings and other offering transactions. He also recently returned from KPMG’s National office where he advised clients and audit teams on a variety of complex accounting matters including debt and equity instruments, revenue recognition, and stock compensation. Ed is currently a member of the Board of Directors for CleanTECH San Diego.
Jeff Carpenter
 Director, Bird Dog Innovation Strategies
Development Capital Networks, LLC
Jeff’ Carpenter runs the Bird Dog Innovation Strategies group for Development Capital Networks, where he manages the technology scouting, licensing, and due diligence services provided by DCN.
His 17+ years of technology commercialization experience includes director of product development for a clean tech start-up in the mid 90’s; nearly 10 years in the University of Minnesota technology transfer office; senior tech scout for a medical device company; and commercialization planning , due diligence, and strategic partnering support for entrepreneurs, investors, and technology acquirers. Jeff’s expertise includes market and competitive landscape analysis, strategic patenting, partner identification and vetting, patent valuation, and license negotiation.
Jeff holds a PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology from the University of Minnesota; and Bachelors and Masters degrees in Forestry, from the University of Montana. After receiving his doctorate, Jeff worked for 15 months as a Congressional Science Fellow in the U.S. Senate.
Ray Chan
 Managing Director
K5Launch
Ray is currently the Co-Founder of K5Launch and Managing Partner at K5 Venture Partners. As an active angel investor with a successful 25 year track record as a king/queen maker, Ray is committed to partnering with entrepreneurs to lead them to success. Ray serves on the board of the Tech Coast Angels and is also a member of the TCA ACE Fund Deal Committee which focuses on early exit opportunities. Working in tandem with these entrepreneurs, Ray loves sharing his passion and knowledge with the next class of game-changers.
Ray has extensive experience within the tech startup industry. He is or has been the board member of portfolio companies Vokle, Masher Media, AIPCOM, NetSoft and Everyone.net. At Everyone.net, he helped to secure over $12 million in funding and grew the company into a profitable outsourced email provider. Everyone.net was later sold to ProofPoint Inc. Ray has also served as the Vice President of International at NetManage, a provider of e-business and application integration solutions. In 1985, he co-founded NetSoft, a leader in communications solutions between PCs, mainframes, and AS/400 systems. NetSoft was acquired by NetManage Inc (NETM).
Melanie Dolan
 Partner
KPMG LLP
Melanie is a Partner in the KPMG’s Audit Quality and Professional Practice Group. In this role, Melanie provides technical accounting, assurance and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting assistance, and provides guidance in interpreting and implementing new SEC rules and announcements as they occur. Melanie is also the Chair of the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ) SEC Regulations Committee and a member of its Audit Practices Task Force. She previously served as KPMG’s representative on the CAQ International Practices Task Force. Prior to joining KPMG, Melanie was an Associate Chief Accountant in the Division of Corporation Finance at the SEC.
Melanie has previously presented at various conferences on the JOBS Act and has written KPMG’s technical publications on this subject matter, among others. She serves as one of the technical resources in KPMG’s National Office providing assistance in interpreting the rules and guidance to clients filing under the JOBS Act.
John Garrison
 Managing Partner
Garrison Group, LLC
John Garrison is President of Garrison Group, a business development practice discovering and introducing new technologies into the electronics, wireless and automotive ecosystems www.garrisongroup.us. John has served in senior sales, marketing, and business development leadership roles for top global players (Samsung, AT&T Wireless, Sony) and venture-backed start-ups (Amazon.com, GreatCall). Garrison Group is an ad-hoc team of experienced go-to-market experts with extensive contacts globally. High profile clients have included SiriusXM; Telargo (an NTT-DoCoMo venture); and top educational institutes, among others.
John holds a BS in Financial Management from the University of Delaware.
Paul Huleatt
 Managing Director
Development Capital Networks, LLC
Paul Huleatt is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of DCN. He currently serves as CEO of the firm. Paul is responsible for capital accounts and SSBCI programs, and supervising the DCN team engaged in delivering the WBT Innovation Marketplace, angel investor fund administration, and technology commercialization planning.
Paul has over 15 years experience in venture capital investing, technology lending and leveraged debt financings. He began his career as an Associate and Investment Officer with First Interstate Equity Corporation, the SBIC of First Interstate Bank. He later served as Senior Associate with Wasatch Venture Fund, the SBIC of Zions Bank and affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Prior to DCN, Paul served as Vice President and Business Development Officer for Silicon Valley Bank. Paul has a Bachelors degree in Finance with honors from Northern Arizona University and an MBA from Arizona State University.
Jacob Johnson
 Founder
innovoSource
Jacob Johnson is the Founder of innovoSource. His primary motivation in founding innovoSource was to act as a partner to organizations in early-stage innovation to develop topics and services that may be cost prohibitive, difficult, or too disruptive to explore internally.
Prior to innovoSource, Jacob was a consultant to the DARPA Microsystems Technology Office, and a founding member of three technology transfer, business development, and corporate relations units at the University of Minnesota. Jacob is a member of and a regular speaker at the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) and Network of Academic and Corporate Relations Officers (NACRO), and the Midwest Research University Network (MRUN). He is also the author and investigator of Mind the Gap and Making the Connection. Both reports combine program and impact details of over 100 different funds
Jacob received BA degrees (biology, business) from Luther College, and a MSMOT (an executive business degree) focused on managing/leading in high-tech and innovation intensive environments from the University of Minnesota, which included residencies in England, Malta, Russia, Singapore, and Vietnam.
Sterling C Johnson
 CEO
Exalen, LLC
Sterling is a veteran of more than 45 years in the life science industry and runs his consulting firm, Exalen LLC. Since founding Exalen his clients have included biotech, drug delivery and medical device companies with a focus on global business development, partnering and alliance management. During his career, including for some clients, Sterling’s corporate assignments have included President of Midatech USA, President and CEO of Biota Inc., VP of Global Business Development for Biota Holdings Ltd., President and CEO of Escalon Medical Inc., Vice President of The Liposome Company, and management positions with other companies including 20 years with Eli Lilly & Company where he started his business career.
Robert Kibble
 Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Mission Ventures
Robert Kibble is a co-Founder and Managing Partner of Mission Ventures, a Southern California venture capital firm investing regionally in early-stage information technology companies. He has over 30 years of venture capital investing experience.
Prior to Mission Ventures, Robert served for thirteen years as a founding General Partner of Paragon Venture Partners, a successful venture capital firm operating in Silicon Valley, focused on investing in information technology companies. His early career included investment banking on Wall Street as well as Vice President of Citicorp’s Merchant Banking Group in Malaysia and Brazil before becoming a Vice President of Citicorp Venture Capital.
Robert has a Bachelor's degree, with honors, in Natural Sciences from Oxford University, and an MBA from the Darden School, University of Virginia. He is a former Director of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and he currently sits on the Board of Eveo, Nexiant, and SodaHead. Robert represented Mission's leadership role in prior portfolio investments in Sandpiper Networks (subsequently becoming Digital Island) and Shopzilla.
Lee Krevat
 Director
San Diego Gas & Electric
Lee Krevat is director of the smart grid initiative for Sempra Energy’s San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E).
Krevat leads enterprise-wide smart grid strategy, policy, and project alignment for SDG&E. In March 2012, he was named one of the top 100 movers and shakers who are influencing the smart grid market by GreenTech Media for the second time and recognized as a Privacy Ambassador by The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. In 2011, Lee was recognized as part of the Top 11 Movers and Shakers of the electric industry by Intelligent Utility Magazine and named one of the Top 15 Smart Grid leaders in the electric industry by FierceSmartGrid.
Krevat currently serves on the Board of Directors of the GridWise Alliance, a smart grid advocacy coalition with the mission to transform the electric grid to achieve a sustainable energy future through the advocacy of well-reasoned smart grid policies at the federal, state, and local levels. Lee also serves on the boards of GridX and the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA).
SDG&E has built a strong foundation in Smart Grid technologies, including self-healing grid technology, automated sub-station condition-based maintenance, advanced outage and distribution management systems, and microgrid projects funded by DOE and CEC. SDG&E filed a 10 year Smart Grid Deployment Plan on June 6, 2011 which described a vision for the future as well as a roadmap composed of 82 projects. SDG&E was ranked number one in the nation three years running in the Smartest Utility rankings published by IDC Energy Insights and Intelligent Utility magazine, named one of the Top Ten Utility Smart Grid Deployments in North America by GreenTech Media and received the 2012 POWER Smart Grid Award from POWER magazine for launching one of the most ambitious and comprehensive smart grid deployment programs in the nation.
Krevat’s prior positions at SDG&E include director of program delivery, where he oversaw IT for advanced technology projects and the development of new systems to improve operating efficiency and customer experience. Krevat was also director of IT strategy and business partnership where he worked to align strategic direction between IT and the utility business units, as well as director of infrastructure engineering & operations.
Before joining Sempra, Krevat led the Software Process Engineering, Technology Transfer and Software Process Improvement Teams at Tandem Computers.
Krevat graduated with university honors and holds a Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics/computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
SDG&E is a regulated public utility that provides service to 3.4 million consumers through 1.4 million electric meters and more than 840,000 natural gas meters in San Diego and southern Orange counties.
Sempra Energy, based in San Diego, is a Fortune 500 energy services holding company with 2008 revenues of nearly $11 billion. The Sempra Energy companies’ 13,600 employees serve about 29 million consumers worldwide.
Mark Lappe
 CEO
Inhibrx
Mark Lappe is the CEO and Founder of Inhibrx, a biopharmaceutical company located in La Jolla, CA. He has extensive expertise in the biotechnology industry with over twenty years of experience in investment management and building the executive teams of over forty start-up biotechnology and medical device companies. Prior to starting Inhibrx, Mark was the Managing Partner of Efficacy Biotech Fund, a fund focused on strategic investment in emerging public biotechnology companies. Mark gained experience in the antibody field through Efficacy’s major investment in Arius Research. Efficacy played the key advisor to Arius and developed the exit strategy that led to the successful sale to Roche in 2008. Additionally, Mark served as a board member of two public biotech companies.
Howard Lindzon
 Co-founder and CEO
StockTwits, Inc.
Howard Lindzonis co-founder and CEO of StockTwits® – a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. StockTwits was recently named “one of the top 10 most innovative companies in web” by FastCompany and one of the “50 best websites” by Time magazine.
Mr. Lindzon has more than twenty years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Howard continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998.
He created Wallstrip, and more than 400 original web video shows, which was purchased by CBS Corp. in 2007. He is an active angel with many success angel investments including: Rent.com, (purchased by Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), and Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers). Mr. Lindzon's new media and internet business investments also include: Limos.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Buddy Media, Ticketfly, Assistly, Bit.ly and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).
Mr. Lindzon received an MBA at Arizona State University and an MIM from The American Graduate School of International Management.
Paul K Meyer
 Sector Vice President and General Manager
Advanced Programs and Technology
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Paul K. Meyer is sector vice president and general manager of Advanced Programs and Technology at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, a premier provider of manned and unmanned aircraft, space systems and advanced technologies critical to our nation’s security.
In this role, Meyer oversees the creation, demonstration and capture of advanced concepts air, land, space, directed energy and several special programs along with technology development. Included in this portfolio are the “Family of Systems” weapon systems; X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstration program; U.S. Navy Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCASS) capture; and Wide Band Relay, a commercially hosted SATCOM payload.
Previously, Meyer led the company’s bid for the U.S. Air Force KC-X tanker replacement program. He also served as sector vice president for Advanced Capabilities Development for the former Integrated Systems sector, where he was responsible for creating and guiding next-generation growth opportunities and technology development in the aircraft business. This included the creation of the Cyber Warfare Integration Network laboratory, which resulted in several major competitive wins, including advanced surveillance aircraft and networks, carrier-based unmanned aircraft, unmanned submersibles, and airborne operations and battle management centers.
Before joining Northrop Grumman in 2000, Meyer was vice president, Business Development, at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, where he was also responsible for advanced program development. His responsibilities encompassed management of new and sustaining program development, classified program and technology development, international special mission aircraft sales, reusable space launch vehicle market development via the NASA X-33, and strategic planning for the entire company.
Meyer has been actively involved in the aerospace industry since 1988 with varied duties as an avionics design engineer, manager on the Advanced Tactical Fighter DEM/VAL (YF-22) program and Advanced Programs development on F-117A. While a member of the stealth fighter team, he served in several program management positions in Low Observable Mission Planning, F-117 Advanced Derivatives, A/F-117X Naval Derivatives, and, ultimately, TACAIR Special Projects, focusing on advanced fighter/bomber design concepts to include F-35.
He earned a Bachelor of Science as well as his commission in the U.S. Air Force from the University of Missouri-Columbia. As an officer in the U.S. Air Force, Meyer graduated from the United States Air Force Electronic Warfare Officer School, Fighter Weapons Instructor Course and Nuclear Weapons Instructor course. He is also a graduate of the University of Southern California’s Executive Management Development Program as well as Senior Executive Development at Stanford University. Meyer also serves as the president of Allied Holdings Inc., in which he oversees the integration and leverage of Scaled Composites, LLC, into this Northrop Grumman portfolio.
Meyer is a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and serves on the University of Missouri Deans Board of Engineering.
Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing innovative systems, products and solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems and technical services to government and commercial customers worldwide. Please visit www.northropgrumman.com for more information.
Terry W Moore
 Chairman & Founder
The VC Roundtable
Mr. Moore has over 20 years of experience investing, founding, leading, and advising tech, clean-tech, and life science companies. He has had C-level experience, and has served on the Board of Directors and Advisors of numerous companies in various stages of development and operation. Mr. Moore founded and is Chairman of The VC Roundtable (www.thevcroundtable.com) of Southern California, a private, invitation-only, monthly VC networking organization that was founded in early 2002.
Mr. Moore has an excellent track record and some of his investments include a global media (TV, Radio and Music) over cellular networks provider named MobiTV (approaching $100M in revenues in 2010 and an IPO candidate); a quantum cascade laser company called Daylight Solutions (profitable after the Series "B" round); a broadband wireless sub-systems integrator E-Band Communications (with over $15M in sales backlog); a manufacturing automation software company called Incuity (sold to Rockwell for a 108% IRR, a 3.8X return in 20 months), and several additional software companies.
Mr. Moore founded, developed, and is the former Executive Director of the Morrison & Foerster Venture Network. Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, Mr. Moore was a Managing Partner at HamiltonTech Capital Partners, a tech and med-tech follow on VC fund to the original 1999/2000 Hamilton Fund located in Southern California. Mr. Moore has a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Florida, an M.B.A. in Venture Management and Marketing from the University of San Diego, and successfully completed a nine-month long post-graduate Entrepreneurship Program at University of California, San Diego – CONNECT.
Ada C Nielsen
 Founder and CEO
Peregrine Maven Partners
In Appril 2012, Ada Nielsen create d a consulting firm specializiing in commer rcializing invenntions, improviing profitabilityy of establlished productss and services, and coaching to develop andd execute strateegy. This followws a career of fifteen years aat Amoco-BP wheree she started thhe Intellectual AAsset Strategy & Managemennt Team for Uppstream Technnology in 2008 , having a stronng track recordd in ideentifying and exxtracting valuee from non-commmercial invenntions, leading and closing siggnificant commmercial transacctions, and develloping new prooducts and neww businesses. HHer BP work coontinued a longg history of maaking money foor companies iin marketfacingg invention spaaces, having coommercialized dozens of inveentions and creeating new venntures in chemiicals and energgy. She also dispoosed of all the nnon-strategic prrojects in Chemmicals for BP AAmoco from 1 999 - 2004.
Ms. NNielsen was thee 2010 Preside nt of the Licennsing Executivees Society, USA & Canada, ffollowing voluunteer roles in tthe LES Educaation Foundatiion as well as CChair of Chemiicals, Energy, EEnvironment aand Materials aand Chair of Edducation for LEES Internnational (LESI ). As immediaate past-presideent in 2011, sh e chaired the nnominating andd award commiittees. She is o ne of the codevellopers of the inntellectual assett strategy moduules in the LESS USA & Canaada Education courses as welll as co-developper and copresenter of the mosst recent advannced offer, CybberCompetitivee Intelligence.
In herr early tenure aas President, shhe initiated the IP100, a commmittee comprissed of companyy and universitty members of USA Canada as weell as created “AAround the Woorld with LES,,” a global obseervance and ceelebration of WWorld IP Day. ““Around the WWorld” in USA Canadda featured 11 offers of PDS 100, the one-dday introductorry course entitlled “Commerc ializing Technnology through the Power of IP Liccensing,” and nnetworking recceptions in virttually all the chhapters of USAA Canada (28 ccelebrations). TThe celebrationn continues. She aalso turned the finances arounnd of the organnization to operrate in the blackk.
In Jannuary 2011, she was elected aa Director of thhe Chicago Ch apter of the Asssociation for CCorporate Growwth, an organizzation for mid-markeet M&A profe ssionals. She ccontinues in thiis role. She parrticipated as ann invited expertt instructor for the World Inteellectual Propeerty Owners’ and the Internattional Atomic EEnergy Agencyy’s Regional TTechnical Coopperation Prograamme in Viennna in early Julyy 2010.. In February 22011 she was thhe keynote spe aker for a Tusiiad-sponsored innovation connference in Istaanbul, was a sppeaker for senior licensing proofessionals at MMerck, a speakeer at the Fashioon Institute of TTechnology (NNYC) about usiing IP for conssumer brandingg in Maarch, and an innnovation speakker at BASF (NNJ) in May.
She iss a past presideent of the Commmercial Devel opment and MMarketing Assocciation (CDMAA, an associatioon organized aaround commmercialization oof new productts and creationn of new busineesses in the cheemical industryy), was chairmaan of the Chicaago Chapter and iss former chairmman of the CDMMA Educationnal Foundation.. She was one oof the develop ers and instrucctors in the CDDMA market researrch course & wwas responsiblee for developinng and teachingg CDMA’s commmercial devellopment coursee.
In adddition, she chaired the Valuattion and Taxat ion Committeee for IPO (Intelllectual Properrty Owners) froom 2004-2006 and has particcipated in severral other IPO ccommittees. In 2008, she wass invited to servve on the newl y formed Adviisory Board to the Illinois Instituute of Natural Resource Sustainability folloowing more thaan six years’ seervice in the staatutory role as chemist for thhe IL Board of Naturral Resources && Conservationn. In addition to ACG, LES, LESI chair poositions, IPO coommittee chairr and the Illinoois enviroonmental boar ds, Ms. Nielsenn belongs to thhe American Chhemical Societty and AUTM (Association oof University TTechnology Manaagers).
She earned an A.BB. in chemistry from Wellesleey College, an MM.B.A. in finaance and markeeting from the UUniversity of Chiccago Booth Graaduate School of Business, annd studied theooretical physic al chemistry inn graduate proggrams at Tulaane University and Dartmouthh College. Shee is a Certified LLicensing Proffessional.
Mike Niggli
 President & COO
San Diego Gas & Electric
Michael R. Niggli is president and chief operating officer of San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), Sempra Energy’s regulated California utility. Sempra Energy is a San Diego-based Fortune 500 energy services holding company whose subsidiaries provide electricity, natural gas and value-added products and services.
SDG&E is a regulated public utility that provides service to 3.4 million consumers through 1.4 million electric meters and more than 850,000 natural gas meters in San Diego and southern Orange counties.
In 2006, Niggli was named chief operating officer of SDG&E and Southern California Gas Co., another of Sempra Energy’s regulated California utilities. Previously, from 2000 to 2006, Niggli was president of Sempra Generation where he was responsible for the operation and maintenance of merchant power plants and energy infrastructure throughout North America.
Prior to joining Sempra Energy in 2000, Niggli was chairman and chief executive officer of Nevada Power Company and Sierra Pacific Resources. He contributed to a successful merger of the two companies that doubled their size and strength. He also guided the company through the deregulation process in Nevada and achieved the highest customer satisfaction rating of any electric utility in the western United States (as reported by J.D. Power and Associates).
From 1988 to 1998 Niggli served as a senior executive with Entergy Corporation where he had significant corporate responsibilities for strategic planning, customer service, fuels acquisition, marketing and sales. He began his career in 1971 at SDG&E, where his management responsibilities included electric and gas operations, fuels acquisition, project management and customer service.
Niggli holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from California State University, Long Beach and San Diego State University.
He founded the graduate program in power engineering at San Diego State University and lectured there for five years. He has also participated in the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
Niggli has previously served on numerous boards, including the Edison Electric Institute, Electric Power Research Institute, National Coal Council, Electric Power Supply Association, and United Way of Southern Nevada. He currently is chairman of the board of the Great Basin National Park Foundation and is co-chair of the Dean’s Advisory Council for Engineering, California State University, Long Beach. He has also been closely involved in business and education partnerships in San Diego, New Orleans and Las Vegas.
Rajesh Pankaj
 Senior Vice President, Engineering
Qualcomm, Inc.
Rajesh Pankaj is Senior Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm Research where he is responsible for a broad portfolio of R&D projects with particular interest in the next generation wireless WAN systems. He joined QUALCOMM in 1997 as a systems engineer for the high speed wireless data system that led to 1xEVDO. Prior to joining QUALCOMM, Rajesh was an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto where he conducted research on networks, focusing on all-optical networks and ATM networks.
Rajesh holds a B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and SM and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jai Hari Rajendran
 Technology and Business Development Manager
Oklahoma State University
Bill Reichert
 Managing Director
Garage Technology Ventures
Bill Reichert is Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, a leading seed-stage and early-stage venture capital fund, based in Silicon Valley. Garage makes seed investments in promising early stage technology companies and works intensively with them to help them to the next step. Some of Garage’s most successful startups include Pandora, Tripwire, LeftHand, Coremetrics, Hoku Scientific, Kaboodle, MiaSole, and Simply Hired.
Bill has spent most of his career as an entrepreneur and operating executive. Prior to joining Garage in 1998, Bill was a co-founder and senior executive at several early-stage, venture-backed technology companies, including Trademark Software, The Learning Company, Infa Technologies, and Academic Systems. Earlier in his career, Bill worked at McKinsey & Co. in Los Angeles, the World Bank in Washington, DC, and Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. in New York. Bill earned his BA from Harvard University and his MBA from Stanford University.
Melinda Richter
 Founder & CEO
Prescience International
With over 15 years of global experience in creating, financing and managing innovative companies in emerging and convergence technologies, Melinda Richter specializes in accelerating the development of products-to-market, and companies-to-investment. She is the founder and CEO of Prescience International, an award-winningfirm dedicated to accelerating the commercialization of science and technology into economic wealth and social impact through the creation and operation of innovation centers, deal-making, strategic market assessments and the development and implementation of best-in-class educational programs. Prescience centers of innovation include, Janssen Labs, the San Jose BioCenter and the Environmental Business Cluster. Prescience also provides commercialization services to key government research agencies like the National Cancer Institute and the National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute.
For Janssen Labs, located at Janssen Research & Development in San Diego, she guides an operations management team to enable innovative life sciences companies to rapidly deliver better solutions to the healthcare challenges faced today.
Under Ms. Richter's leadership, Prescience innovation centers have won numbers awards and accolades. The San Jose BioCenter—a $15M state-of-the-art 40,000sf life science research center and incubator—was named one of the best life science incubators in the U.S. by CNN, was honored by the National Business Incubation Association with its 2009 Incubator of the Year Award, and was granted the Harvard’s Bright Ideas Award. The Environmental Business Cluster (EBC)—one of the first cleantech incubators ever to be established in the U.S. Ranked as one of the "Top 10 Incubators Changing the World" by Forbes.com, one of the “Top 10 Start Up Incubators to Watch” by Inc.com, one of the top incubators in the country by CNN, and named by Popular Science Magazine as one of three Places Where Inventors Are Born. As a result, Prescience has supported over 200 companies, facilitated the creation of nearly 1500 jobs and the raising of over $2B of growth capital.
Prior to founding Prescience, Ms. Richter created and directed the Astia Life Science Incubator. She also served in strategic roles with Nortel Networks, where she spent more than 8 years working throughout Asia, North America, Europe, and Central and Latin America. While at Nortel, Ms. Richter addressed acquisitions, strategic planning, marketing, contract negotiations, engineering and manufacturing optimization, world trade market development, and general management of an IT business unit. She left Nortel to start eTreasurer, an online financial services portal for SMEs.
Ms. Richter has served on the governing board of the National Business Incubation Association and currently sits on boards of University of California Berkeley's Haas School of Business Center for Executive Education BioExec Institute, the San Jose State University's Masters of Biotechnology Program and UC San Francisco's School of Dentistry. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and an M.B.A. from INSEAD in France.
Jason Rittenberg
 Research & Resources Coordinator
Council of Development Finance Agencies
Jason Rittenberg manages the Council of Development Finance Agencies' ongoing research and resource collection activities. These activities include producing the National Volume Cap Report, maintaining the TIF State-by-State Map, and editing the Council's popular Development Finance Review Weekly e-newsletter and Development Finance Perspectives magazine. Jason also manages CDFA's state financing roundtables and Research & Advisory Services. Jason is a co-author of News on the Internet: Information and Citizenship in the 21st Century. Jason holds a Master's Degree from the University of Illinois and a Bachelor's Degree from Ohio University.
Toby Rittner EDFP
 Executive Director
Council of Development Finance Agencies
Toby Rittner runs the day-to-day operations of the Council of Development Finance Agencies (CDFA), which includes management of a 32 member Board of Directors, and the organization’s various educational, advocacy and research initiatives. Rittner is a frequent speaker at local, state and national conferences and events focused on economic development finance. He has been featured extensively in The Bond Buyer and other national media publications concerning the advancement of development finance tools. He is the author of CDFA’s highly acclaimed Practitioner’s Guide to Economic Development Finance and is a Certified Economic Development Finance Professional (EDFP) through the National Development Council (NDC). Rittner has also advised state and federal government leaders, including President Obama’s Administration Transition Team, on economic development finance policy and focus.
Prior to joining CDFA, Mr. Rittner was the Director of Legislative Affairs and former Director of Training for the International Economic Development Council (IEDC).
Toby holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Master’s of City and Regional Planning degree from the Ohio State University.
Duane Roth
 CEO
CONNECT
Duane J. Roth is Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of CONNECT.CONNECT is the globally recognized public benefits organization fostering entrepreneurship in the San Diego region by assisting new business formation of technology and life sciences companies.CONNECT has assisted in the formation of over 3,000 companies since its inception in 1985 and these companies have secured over $10 billion in funding.
Prior to joining CONNECT, Mr. Roth founded Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp., where he served as CEO and Chairman of the Board for over twenty-five years. Prior to Alliance, he held senior management positions at Johnson & Johnson and American Home Products (now Pfizer) operating companies. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors and executive committees of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), the California Healthcare Institute (CHI) and BIOCOM (past Chair).
Mr. Roth was appointed to the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee for the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) by the Governor in 2006 and was elected Vice Chairman in 2009. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and a member of the Board of Directors of SAIC-Frederick, Inc., the contractor to the National Cancer Institute.
Mr. Roth serves on a number of advisory committees and boards of the University of California, including the President’s Board on Science and Innovation, the UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center (past Chair), the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), the UC San Diego Health Sciences advisory board and the UC San Diego Foundation Board of Directors (past Chair). He also serves on the San Diego State University College of Business (past Chair) and the Sciences & Engineering advisory boards. Mr. Roth is a member of the Executive Board for the California State University (CSU) (CSU) Professional Science Masters Program.
Mr. Roth is active in the San Diego community serving as co-Chair of the Affordable Housing Working Group, a member of the Advisory Council for Math for America, a member of the Board of UC San Diego Preuss Charter School, and co-Chair of the advisory board to the National Conflict Resolution Center. Mr. Roth earned a B.S. from Iowa Wesleyan College, where he served as a trustee.
Ted Roth
 President and Head of Institutional Sales
Roth Capital Partners
Ted Roth is President and Head of Institutional Sales for ROTH Capital Partners, LLC, a full-service investment bank providing capital raising and other services for small-cap public companies. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of BioMed Realty Trust (NYSE: BMR), and is a member of the Board of Directors of the San Diego Padres Baseball Team, San Diego Sports Commission (2005 Chairman), Rady Children's Hospital and Health , CONNECT, and BIOCOM, and is past Chair of the California Democratic Leadership Council. Mr. Roth is a graduate of Iowa Wesleyan College, and has a J.D. from Washburn University and an LL.M. from the University of Missouri in Kansas City.
Nikolay Savchuk PhD
 Managing Director
Torrey Pines Investment
Nikolay Savchuk serves as Chairman Viriom Ltd, NewVac Ltd, TeaRx Ltd, SatRx and Chemical Diversity Research Institute in Moscow Russia; CEO of ChemDiv, Inc. (San Diego CA), serves on the board of ChemRar Hi Tech Center (Moscow, Russia), non-profit BioPharmClutster Northern and advisory board of PhysTech21 of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology . He has led the TPI business team since 2002. Savchuk is a founder of the Inel Group of IT and media companies in Singapore and Russia, and was an industry representative to the Russian government’s Pharma 2020 initiative. Nikolay is an advisor and expert of the Agency Of Strategic Initiatives of the Russian government. Holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Tarang Shah
 Author, Entrepreneur & Venture Professional
Tarang Shah is a venture capital professional and author of Venture Capitalists At Work (http://amzn.com/B006C9EM1Q). At SoftBank Capital, a venture capital fund, he helped with investments in mobile, digital media and enterprise software startups totaling $50 million. He has reviewed 1000+ startups and served as a board member and CEO advisor for dozen plus startups. At BofA, Tarang served as SVP of Startup Innovation and was resposible for strategic business development and risk/opportunity assessment of tech startups in mobile payment, commerce and other emerging technology verticals. Tarang is a co-founder of a VC consulting firm Ariants and startup assessment firm Startup Meter (www.startup-meter.com).
His prior roles included lead product manager for Ericsson’s first 3G product line of $300 million in R&D, business responsible for Ericsson’s CDMA450 product line, and a marketing manager for Qualcomm’s CDMA technology. He passed CFA Level II in 2005 and holds MBA from Thunderbird, MBA and BSEE from Gujarat University (India). He has developed a venture model, Startup Analysis Model (SAM) for assessing success potential of the startups.
Doug Shane
 President
Scaled Composites, LLC
Doug Shane is the President of Scaled Composites, LLC in Mojave, California. He was the first engineer hired by Burt for Scaled when it opened for business in 1982, and has held positions of increasing responsibility including Project Engineer, Director of Flight Operations, Vice President/Business Development, and Executive Vice President. He has been an officer of Scaled since 1989, and had a significant role in the fifteen-fold growth in company sales over those 20 years.
He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Kansas and in 2004 was made a member of its Alumni Honor Roll.
His flight test experience includes the first flights of eight new prototypes, including the White Knight, Adam 309, VisionAire Vantage, and Williams International V-Jet II. He is a Fellow and past President of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots.
Honors and awards include the Iven C. Kincheloe Award for outstanding professional accomplishment in flight testing by SETP in 1997, an Aviation Week Aerospace Laureate award in 2005, and the Robert J. Collier trophy also in 2005.
Peter J. Shaw
 Managing Director
Shaw Management Advisors, International, LLC
Mr. Shaw is Managing Director of Shaw Management Advisors, Int’l LLC, (SMAI) a San Diego based international advisory firm that provides services for CEO’s, Board of Directors, Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs. SMAI focuses on M&A advisory, business and corporate development, intellectual property and product licensing, financing/restructuring and marketing/sales services, as well as conflict resolution.
Mr. Shaw has been the founder or first professional CEO of six companies, a majority of which have led to successful exits. He has served, at the direction of venture capital investors and boards as interim and turnaround CEO for four other companies. He has considerable experience in International Business and served as President of a Japanese Subsidiary of a NASDAQ Public Company.
Mr. Shaw has, and continues to sit, on numerous private and public boards. He has also served as a partner for an institutional venture capital fund. He is Past President and continues to sit on the Board of the San Diego Venture Group, San Diego’s CONNECT and is also Chairman of San Diego State University’s Entrepreneurial Management Center’s Advisory Board and serves, or has served on numerous other 501C3 boards
Mr. Shaw holds a bachelor of engineering degree in electrical engineering from City College of New York and a master of business administration degree from the University of Connecticut.
Bernard Slede
 Managing Director
Breakthrough Venture Partners
Bernard Slede is Managing Partner at Breakthrough Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley-based firm that focuses on monetizing innovation for technology companies and on supplementing the innovation abilities and capabilities of large corporations, helping them bridge their innovation gaps including by developing ecosystems.
Mr. Slede has been a successful agent of change and positive disruption throughout the innovation ecosystem, both as an entrepreneur and a corporate innovation leader:
On the startup side:
o He was the startup founder and CEO of high tech and business services, and is also an Advisory Board member to a number of successful startup companies in the US and internationally
o He has also been involved in many successful patent transactions
o He co-organized Incubate 2.0 in Cupertino, California
o Mr. Slede is also one of Startup America’s top 5 individual Champions.
On the corporate innovation side:
o At HP, the original “Garage” company, he founded the Startup Ecosystem Programs and HP Startup Central and orchestrated the interactions with emerging high growth companies and their stakeholders. He was a key member of the Corporate Venture Capital team, managing the portfolio of equity investments in startups
o At Technology Ventures Corporation, a Lockheed Martin entity, he was a top performer helping startups commercialize technology and raise funds
o At Intel Corporation, Mr.Slede created a partner community for a new business group marketing Internet appliance systems. He then was hired by a venture capital-backed software startup to drive business development and industry alliances.
o At European media leader Group RTL, he led the investment in – and became a member of the Board of – the first European pay-per-view television service. He also created, headed and spun off their pay TV business, which led to the launch of TPS (1 million satellite subscribers).
o At energy company Elf Aquitaine, he was part of the venture capital team in Paris and Stamford, Connecticut
Mr. Slede is a graduate of Paris’ HEC School of Management and the International Management Program at ESADE (Barcelona) and McGill University (Montreal).
Website: www.breakthroughvp.com
Michael D. Step
 Senior Vice President
Santarus, Inc.
Michael D. Step serves as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development at Santarus. At Santarus, Mr. Step has led successful licensing efforts which have resulted in out-licensing agreements for Santarus products with large pharmaceutical companies as well as in-licensing a variety of products from partners which has increased Santarus’ situation from having one marketed product to now having four marketed products and four products in clinical development in a variety of therapeutic areas including diabetes, lipid disorders, gastroenterology, orphan diseases and immunology.
Mr. Step has held this position since he joined Santarus in February 2005. Prior to joining Santarus, he served from August 2000 to February 2005 with Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, most recently as Vice President, Corporate Development. In this capacity, he was responsible for leading corporate development activities. Prior to Amylin, he was Senior Director, Business Development at Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc., from May 1998 to July 2000. Prior to that, he served in corporate development and strategic planning at Hoffmann-La Roche and sales and management roles at Roche Labs and Syntex Labs. Mr. Step holds a B.A. in political science from Vanderbilt University and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California. Mr. Step also serves on the board of directors for Ritter Pharmaceuticals, a private development-stage pharmaceutical company focused in treating lactose intolerance.
David Titus
President/CEO
San Diego Venture Group
David Titus is co-founder and Managing Partner of Windward Ventures, investors in early stage technology companies located in Southern California. He also serves as the President and CEO of the San Diego Venture Group, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the venture capital ecosystem in San Diego. SDVG brings together venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and their supporters to foster the growth of new businesses.
Since 1997, Windward Ventures has invested in 24 Southern California early stage companies, of which 5 are active in the portfolio. He is board representative to 4 of these companies and Chairman of one other private company. David has served on the boards of over 25 companies, including 2 public companies. David is a member of the Board of CONNECT and former officer of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists. He has served as an advisor to numerous business organizations including the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation (EDC), CommNexus and Corporate Directors Forum.
David began his career in venture capital in 1986, when he joined Technology Funding, a San Francisco bay area venture firm with $200 million under management. He was Managing Director of Corporate Finance directing all investment activities when he left in 1991 to move to San Diego. Prior to entering the venture capital business, he was a founder and Senior Vice President of his own start-up, Silicon Valley Bank, where he led the Technology Division.
David has a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Joel Trotter
Partner, Washington, D.C.
Latham & Watkins LLP
Joel Trotter is the global Co-chair of Latham & Watkins’ Public Company Representation Practice Group and Deputy Chair of the Corporate Department in the Washington, D.C. office. His practice focuses on capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulation and general corporate matters.
Expertise
A leader in Latham’s SEC practice, Mr. Trotter represents major NYSE and Nasdaq companies and counsels both issuers and underwriters in the public offering process and in corporate compliance matters involving SEC reporting and disclosure requirements. He has represented clients in dozens of initial public offerings and hundreds of other securities offerings and SEC-related matters.
Mr. Trotter also serves as special counsel for boards of directors, audit committees and special committees on governance issues, corporate crises and business combination proposals.
Mr. Trotter served as one of two lawyers on the IPO Task Force, a national group of industry experts that provided a report to the US Department of the Treasury on increasing job creation by improving access to the capital markets for emerging growth companies.
Education
JD, University of Virginia School of Law, 1995, Virginia Law Review
BA, University of Virginia, 1992, Echols Scholar; Raven Society
Bar qualifications
District of Columbia, Virginia
Languages
English
Recognition Highlights
One of the "10 Most Admired Securities Attorneys" in a Law360 survey that identified him as "one of the firm's go-to sources for advice" and noted his "deep expertise and excellent judgment" on sophisticated securities matters. Described as a "smart, creative and responsive" counselor who "knows how to listen" and is "always available and never seems stressed."
Included in Law Business Research's International Who's Who of Capital Markets Lawyers
Ruprecht von Buttlar
 Vice President
CONNECT
Ruprecht von Buttlar is the Vice President, Business Creation & Development, CONNECT. He directs the execution and development of CONNECT’s Springboard program and the Nearsourcing Roundtable program. Ruprecht serves on the executive boards of CCAT (Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technologies), San Diego Advanced Defense Technology cluster and the Biomimicry BRIDGE.
Springboard, CONNECT’s flagship program, assists innovators and entrepreneurs with the definition of a compelling commercialization strategy through mentoring by seasoned, C-level executives – CONNECT’s Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIRs). Under Ruprecht’s leadership, Springboard has become an internationally renowned business creation program. Since 2005, more than 200 companies have completed the Springboard process and over 50% of these companies are still in operation. These companies have raised over $ 310Million in seed-, venture- and debt financing and have created 1000 jobs in San Diego.
Prior to CONNECT, Ruprecht held global chief executive, general management and business development positions in the Internet and communications industries with companies including Motorola, DSC Communications (Alcatel), Nortel Networks, Scientific Atlanta and Aegis Broadband.
Ruprecht has a BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Hamburg and a MBA from Loyola College in Maryland.
Martin Waters
 Partner
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Martin (Marty) Waters is a corporate and securities partner in the San Diego office and a former member of the firm's Policy Committee. He is a founding partner of the firm's San Diego office and Southern California corporate practice. He was a partner in the Palo Alto office until opening the San Diego office in 2004.
Marty is a proven company builder with nearly 20 years of experience providing corporate and securities counsel. He has been instrumental in starting, building, and shepherding through initial public offering or sale numerous emerging growth companies in a broad range of industries, including biotech, clean technology, cloud computing, e-commerce, medical device, new and traditional media, SaaS, semiconductors, social networking, and telecommunications. A partial list of exited emerging growth clients includes Ablation Frontiers, CoreValve, Cytokinetics, evite, eyeonics, Helixis, Heritage Pharma, Illumina, Indigo Systems, Lara Networks, N Spine, Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Pain Therapeutics, SKS Microfinance, TearLab, and TweetPhoto. Marty also represents several public companies in a general counsel capacity, as well as investment banks and placement agents in PIPEs and public offerings. Marty has counseled issuers and underwriters in more than 50 offerings while at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and with Cahill Gordon & Reindel and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in New York.
Marty's practice is international in reach, but he concentrates on leading the firm's efforts in representing public and private growth companies in San Diego, Orange County, and Los Angeles. He handles a wide variety of complex commercial transactions for clients, including public offerings of equity and debt securities; mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; venture capital financings; and formation and governance of partnerships, strategic alliances, and joint ventures.
Jeffrey M Williams
 CEO
Catalyst Midwest, LLC
Jeff has over 30 years of experience in the Medical Device/Pharmaceutical/Biotech industries. Prior to joining the Consultancy, his background includes general management with significant P&L responsibility, and extensive expertise in strategic planning, operations, M&A, new product assessment, market development, and commercialization.
Jeff’s expertise includes mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, business development, and capital acquisition.
Jeff holds a Masters in Pharmacology and in Toxicology from Purdue University and a BS in Chemistry and Biology from Northland College.
Steven M. Wood
Vice President / Director
Cowboy Technologies
James M Zortman
 Sector Vice President
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
James M. (“Jim”) Zortman is sector vice president, Life Cycle Logistics and Support, for Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, a premier provider of manned and unmanned aircraft, space systems and advanced technologies critical to our nation’s security.
Supporting sector strategy of “design anywhere, build anywhere, support anywhere,” Zortman provides sector-level leadership of the full spectrum of logistics and product support functions. He is responsible for ensuring that the same excellence in integration now represented in design and production at Aerospace Systems is also fully exploited in anticipation and fulfillment of product support requirements.
His most recent previous assignment was as sector vice president, Global Sustainment, at the former Integrated Systems sector. In addition, effective July 18, 2009, Zortman assumed the responsibilities of site manager of the Rancho Bernardo and Moss Point sites.
Zortman joined Northrop Grumman in January 2008 following a career in the U.S. Navy, where he attained the rank of vice admiral. He served as commander Naval Air Forces and chief executive officer, Naval Aviation Enterprise. In this role, he led a combined team of more than 180,000 military, government, civilian and contractor personnel responsible for operations, readiness and full life cycle management of 3,800 aircraft and 12 aircraft carriers.
His prior assignments include commander, Naval Air Forces, Pacific Fleet; commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic Fleet; commander, Task Force Fifty; commander, John C. Stennis Battle Group; director, Operations and Politico-Military Affairs; and executive officer to the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.He has earned the Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit (4), the Bronze Star and the Air Medal.
Zortman earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and completed a fellowship with the Chief of Naval Operations in Strategic Studies Group at the Naval War College. In addition, he has completed courses in executive business and strategic planning at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., and the University of North Carolina Business School at Chapel Hill.
Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing innovative systems, products and solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems and technical services to government and commercial customers worldwide. Please visit www.northropgrumman.com for more information.
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