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Keynotes -- NanoBusiness 2007
• Uma Chowdhry
• Ray Johnson
• Johannes M.C. (Hans) Stork
• Wilbur L. Ross Jr.
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Josh Wolfe
• Keith Blakely
• Scott Livingston
• Warren Packard
• Sean Murdock
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Uma Chowdhry
Sr. Vice President and CSTO,
Dupont
Uma is currently Sr. Vice President and Chief Science and Technology Officer (CSTO) at DuPont where she has spent her career in different roles ranging from Management of Technology & Planning to Business Management.
She joined DuPont in 1977 as a research scientist in Central Research & Development. Over the years she has held various technology and business management positions in CR&D and in Electronics and Chemicals businesses. She was Director of DuPont Engineering Technology before being promoted to VP-CR&D in 2002. In June 2006, she was promoted to Sr. VP and CSTO.
For contributions to the science of ceramics, Uma was elected "Fellow" of the American Ceramic Society in 1989, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996, and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. She has co-authored over 30 publications and has one patent.
Uma has served on various boards and committees including the Industrial Research Institute, National Inventors Hall of Fame and Department of Energy’s Laboratory Operations. She is currently serving on the Energy Secretary’s Hydrogen Technical Advisory Committee, on the National Academy’s Science & Public Policy Committee, Delaware State’s Science and Technology Council, on the board of University of Pennsylvania’s Nano-Bio Center and the advisory board of the University of Delaware’s Engineering school. She also serves on several committees for the National Academy of Engineering.
Uma has been recognized for her support of women by Girls, Inc. of Delaware and Girl Scouts of America and has served on the National Committee for Women in Science and Engineering.
Born and raised in India, Uma came to the US in 1968 with a B.S. in Physics from Institute of Science, Mumbai University, received an M.S. from Caltech in Engineering Science in 1970 and a PhD in Materials Science from MIT in 1976.
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Dr. Ray O. Johnson
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Dr. Ray O. Johnson is the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Lockheed Martin Corporation. Dr. Johnson guides the Company's technology vision and provides corporate leadership in the strategic areas of Technology and Engineering, which include more than 65,000 people working on more than 4,000 programs. Dr. Johnson also leads the Corporation’s Advanced Concepts Organization and the Center for Innovation, a world-class laboratory for collaborative experimentation and analysis involving Lockheed Martin, its customers, and industry partners.
Before joining Lockheed Martin, Dr. Johnson was the Chief Operating Officer for Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI), of Alexandria, Virginia. Prior to that, he held a variety of increasingly responsible executive positions with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), including Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Advanced Concepts Business Unit. In addition to executive leadership and management positions, Dr. Johnson has experience in strategic planning, program development, program management, and venture capital funding. He currently serves as a member of the Sandia Corporation Board of Directors. He previously served on the boards of two biotechnology companies.
Dr. Johnson was a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board from 2001 to 2005, where he chaired the 2003 Summer Study titled, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Perspective: Effects, Capabilities, and Technologies and co-chaired the 2002 Summer Study titled, Predictive Battlespace Awareness. He participated in several additional Summer Studies and Science and Technology Reviews. His Air Force career included assignments in laser physics and systems design and analysis, electro-optic systems research and development, survivability, and command and control. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and Phi Kappa Phi.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Dr. Johnson holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.
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Warren Packard
Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Warren Packard is a Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He currently serves on the Boards of 422 inc., Anagran, BinOptics, EoPlex, Imago Scientific Instruments, Media Lario, and Ooma. Mr. Packard also leads the firm's investments in Feedburner, Jaxtr, Microfabrica, Primet Precision Materials, TicketsNow, and YeePay. Former investments include Chilisoft (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Digital Impact (acquired by Acxiom), Direct Hit Technologies (acquired by Ask Jeeves), Enviz (acquired by Keynote Systems), Fogdog Sports (acquired by GSI Commerce), Hypernex (acquired by Nova Measuring Instruments), NetMind (acquired by Puma Technology), and Xfire (acquired by Viacom). Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Packard co-founded Angara Database Systems, a main memory relational database company, which was acquired by Personify. Prior to co-founding Angara, he was an Associate at Institutional Venture Partners, investing in early-stage technology companies. Before IVP, Mr. Packard was a Senior Principal Engineer in the Advanced Product Development Group at Baxter International. Mr. Packard is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University and holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering: Smart Product Design. He received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. E-mail: warren@dfj.com
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Johannes M.C. (Hans) Stork
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Texas Instruments
Dr. Stork is Senior Vice President, and Chief Technology Officer, of Texas Instruments. As Director of the Silicon Technology Development organization, he is responsible for ensuring that process technology provides a competitive advantage for TI’s products. He joined Texas Instruments in September 2001, as Vice President and Director of Silicon Technology Research.
Prior to joining Texas Instruments, Dr. Stork was Director of the Internet Systems and Storage Lab at HP Laboratories, Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, California from 1999 until 2001. Upon joining Hewlett-Packard in 1994, Dr. Stork held the position of Director of the ULSI Research Lab between 1995 and 1999.
Dr. Stork started his professional career in 1982 at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, researching advanced bipolar technology and circuits. His group explored and demonstrated SiGe HBTs, resulting in new speed records at device and circuit level. Hans became manager of the Bipolar Devices group and from 1992 to 1994, he assumed responsibility for the Exploratory Device and Technology programs at IBM Research.
Hans was awarded two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards from IBM. He has written or co-authored nearly 100 cited papers and holds eleven US patents. He was elected IEEE Fellow in 1994 for his contributions to SiGe devices and technology.
As a fellow member of the IEEE Electron Devices Society, Hans has served as a member of the 1988 BCTM program committee, was on the VLSI Technology Symposium program committee from 1986 to 1992, and was publications/publicity chairman for the 1990-1992 Technology and Circuit Symposia, publicity (vice) chairman for the (1991) 1992 IEDM, and technical program committee member of the 1994 IEDM. Hans was EDS editor of the Circuits and Devices magazine from 1993 to 1995, and was on the technical program committee of the Symposium on Low Power Electronics in 1995 and 1996.
Dr. Stork serves on the Board of Directors for International Sematech (ISMT) since 2002, and for the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) since 1999. Prior to that he was a member of the Executive Advisory Boards for both Sematech and the SRC from 1997-1999. He has been a member of the SIA Technology Strategy Committee since 1999.
In 2000-2001, he participated as a technical advisor to Government efforts on high performance computing benchmarks and the national security issues emerging from Internet computing, and has recently been elected a member of the advisory committee for the Emerging Technology Fund in Texas.
Dr. Stork was born in Soest, The Netherlands, and received the Ingenieur degree in electrical engineering from Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, and holds a PhD from Stanford University.
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Wilbur L. Ross Jr.
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, WL Ross & Co. LLC
Wilbur Ross may be the best known turnaround financier in the U.S., having been involved in the restructuring of over $200 billion of defaulted companies’ assets around the world. In 1998, Fortune Magazine called him "the King of Bankruptcy.”
Mr. Ross organized International Steel Group in April 2002 and was its Board Chairman. By acquiring Bethlehem, LTV, Weirton, Acme, Georgetown and U.S. Steel’s plate operation, ISG became the largest integrated steel company in North America. It was listed on the New York Stock Exchange until April when it merged with Mittal Steel to form the largest steel company in the world. Mr. Ross remains a director of Mittal and was a member of the three-director committee responsible for the recent successful bid for Arcelor.
In October 2005, the firm teamed up with India’s Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited, India’s $9.5 billion mortgage finance institution, to invest in Indian corporate restructurings and turnarounds. The firm has just become the first foreign fund selected by the Asset Reconstruction Company of India (“ARCIL”) to rehabilitate a major Indian company, OCM.
In March, 2004, the firm organized International Textile Group (ITG) by buying and consolidating two bankrupt companies, Burlington Industries and Cone Mills. Mr. Ross serves as Chairman of ITG and is also Chairman of the Board of the Nano-Tex affiliate of ITG. Since then, ITG has announced investments in China, Viet Nam and Guatemala and acquired Safety Components International.
On October 1, 2004, WL Ross organized International Coal Group to acquire out of bankruptcy Horizon Natural Resources and two other coal companies and went public. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ICO.
In 2005, WL Ross formed International Automotive Components to acquire Collins & Aikman’s European operations and Lear’s European interior plastics division. In 2005, WL Ross acquired a major stake in Oxford Automotive which subsequently completed the friendly reverse takeover of Wagon, a London Stock Exchange listed company, to form a € 1 billion company. More recently, the firm acquired control of PLASCAR, the leading Brazilian automotive plastics company, Mitsuboshi in Japan and BST in Germany.
In 2006, the Ross Funds made major commitments to Montpelier Reinsurance Holdings, and Mr. Ross joined the Board. Last month Lloyd’s approved for the first time a venture between one of its leading syndicates and the Ross Fund’s Panther Reinsurance affiliate.
In Japan, the firm also controls a number of businesses and manages real estate, corporate governance and private equity partnerships.
In 1999, President Kim Dae Jung awarded Mr. Ross a medal for his help during Korea's 1998 financial crisis. He is a former Chairman of the Smithsonian National Board. Earlier, President Clinton had appointed him to the Board of the U.S.-Russia Investment Fund, and he served as privatization advisor to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Mr. Ross serves on the Executive Committee of the New York City Partnership and of the Japan Society and is a member of the Chairman’s Circle of the U.S.-India Business Council. He is a member of the Business Roundtable and is a Board member of the Yale University School of Management, which has presented him with its Legend of Leadership Award. He is also a member of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation.
Mr. Ross holds an A.B. from Yale University and an M.B.A., with Distinction, from Harvard University.
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Keith Blakely
CEO, NanoDynamics
Keith Blakely is the CEO of NanoDynamics, Inc., a leader in the commercialization of nanomaterials and nanotechnology-enabled components and systems. The company was formed in 2002 and has already introduced commercial products for the microelectronics, biomedical, chemical, semiconductor, defense, and alternative energy (fuel cell) markets.
Blakely is a serial entrepreneur, having started his first company, Advanced Refractory Technologies, Inc. (ART), in Buffalo, NY in 1981 at the age of 24. For the next twenty years, he served as ART’s President & CEO, overseeing its growth from a 2 person operation to over 300 people with two international joint ventures and three domestic facilities. During his tenure, he established relationships with General Motors, Bekaert, Mitsubishi, Westinghouse, McDermott International, United Defense, and many others. The company was recognized as a worldwide leader in advanced materials when it was acquired by a subsidiary of Tyco International in June, 2001.
Following the sale of ART, Mr. Blakely established a technology management consulting organization – The InVentures Group – which has provided technology assessments, business planning, and technology commercialization to several organizations, from start-ups to multi-billion dollar firms, including the University at Buffalo. As a result of his interaction with UB, he founded and serves as Chairman of First Wave Technologies, Inc., an organization dedicated to the commercialization of innovative products and technologies developed in upstate NY. During that same period, Blakely served as the COO of a NASDAQ listed fuel cell company headquartered in NYC and the CEO of a privately-held nanomaterials company based in the Midwest.
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Scott Livingston
Managing Director of Axiom Capital Management Inc.
Scott Livingston is a Managing Director of Axiom Capital Management Inc. and heads the Livingston Group, a leading investment banking/advisory group focused on nanotechnology. Axiom Capital Management Inc. provides wealth management, investment banking, prime brokerage and private equity services.
Mr. Livingston has been called “sharp and highly connected” by the Forbes Wolfe Nanotechnology Report (July 1, 2005) and has been an invited speaker on nanotechnology investment trends at the Harvard Club, the Nanobusiness Alliance, the Cambridge Healthtech Institute, Nanotechnology.com, the International Business Forum, the Delaware Technology Park, the Business Executives for National Security, Hilary Clinton’s Jobs for New York, and has presented to half a dozen state pension leaders across the country. Scott is also the creator of the first annual Axiom Capital Management “Livingston Nanotechnolgy Conference”, one of the largest nanotechnology conferences of the year.
Previously, Scott has served as a Senior Vice President – Investment Management at Lehman Brothers, where he began his nanotechnology focus, and managed more than $150 million in client assets. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers in 2000, Scott was a Director of the Private Client Group at SG Cowen Securities, and prior to that was at Drexel and Smith Barney.
Scott is a SUNY Albany graduate. He is a board member of the NanoBusiness Alliance and a founding board member of the NY Nanobusiness Alliance. Scott sits on the board of the Nanoethics Group and the Dolan DNA Learning Center at the Coldspring Harbor Labs. He is married with three children and lives in Long Island, NY.
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Josh Wolfe
Managing Partner, Lux Capital & NbA Co-Founder
Josh Wolfe is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Lux Capital focusing on investments in Nanotechnology. Before forming Lux Capital, he worked in Salomon Smith Barney's Investment Banking group, where his experience included a $4 billion hotel merger, and a defense against an unsolicited LBO. Josh has also worked in capital markets while at Merrill Lynch on its Financial Futures & Options/Government Strategy desk and at Prudential Securities in its Municipal Finance department.
Prior to venturing into the financial world, Josh conducted and published cutting edge AIDS/immunopathology research in Cell Vision and The Journal of Leukocyte Biology, leading medical/immunology journals.
Josh graduated with distinction from Cornell University with a B.S. in Economics and Finance. He has been an invited guest speaker, lecturer and panelist on nanotechnology to Harvard, Yale, Wharton, Columbia, Cornell, Merrill Lynch, Capitol Hill, government labs, and officials in France, Canada, UK, Spain and Germany. Josh is a a co-founder of The NanoBusiness Alliance, a Senior Associate of the Foresight Institute for Nanotechnology, the Coordinator for the Institute of Molecular Manufacturing's Prize in Computational Nanotechnology, and a member of the Cognitive Science Society.
Josh is author of the acclaimed "Nanotech Report" and Editor of Forbes' new publication, the "Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report."
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Sean Murdock
Executive Director.
NanoBusiness Alliance
Prior to becoming the Executive Director of the NanoBusiness Alliance, he was the Executive Director and a founding board member of AtomWorks, an initiative formed to foster nanotechnology in Illinois and more broadly throughout the Midwest.
Sean has established himself as a leading thinker in the areas of nanotechnology commercialization and economic development. He has delivered keynote speeches on the commercialization of nanotechnology at several nanotechnology conferences, and served as co-chair for the commercialization focused NanoCommerce 2003 conference and trade show. Sean has been quoted extensively on the subject in many leading publications including Fortune, The Economist, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, and Small Times.
Sean has been very active in nanotechnology trade and economic development issues. He helped to organize and execute the first Nanotechnology Trade Mission to Europe in conjunction with the NanoBusiness Alliance and the U.S. Department of Commerce. He has also been engaged with senior officials of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Technology Administration on the potential impact of export control issues on nanotechnology development and commercialization.
Prior to founding AtomWorks and serving as the Executive Director of the NanoBusiness Alliance, Sean had more than 7 years experience in management consulting, most recently as Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company. Sean served a variety of Fortune 500 companies, focusing primarily upon the industrial and chemicals sectors. While there, he developed some of the firm's early perspective on the business opportunities created by the nanotech revolution, publishing the first two internal documents on the subject.
Sean received his Masters in Business Administration and Masters in Engineering Management from Northwestern University. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Notre Dame.
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