• Randy Alvarado
• Louis Archambault
• Dave Arthur
• Ric Asseltine
• Lynn L.Bergeson
• Jeet Bhatia
• Robert Blackmon
• Keith Blakely
• Wasiq Bohkari
• Victor Boyajian
• Ken Bradley
• Andrew Braswell
• Brian Bristol
• Stuart Burchill
• Vince Caprio
• Uma Chowdhry
• John Cleary
• Seth Coe-Sullivan
• Brian Cooke
• Joseph Cross
• Pankaj Dhingra
• Ron Durando
• Jeffrey Evenson
• Lisa Farmen
• JoAnne Feeney
• Gabor Garai
• Peter Garcia
• Alan Gotcher
• Bob Gregg
• Joe Grzyb
• Michael Gurin
• Vincent Guyaux
• Mark Hersam
• Edward Hughes
• Ray Johnson
• Gordon Knight
• F. Thomas Krotine
• Amit Kumar
• Nabil Lawandy
• Michael Lefenfeld
• Martin Lessard
• Scott Livingston

Randy Alvarado
President & CEO, Martin Bionics

Randy Alvarado is the President and CEO of Martin Bionics.  A leader in creating tomorrow’s prosthetic solutions, Martin Bionics specializes in advanced high-tech medical and prosthetic technology designed to mimic the human body.  The vision of Martin Bionics is to provide 100 percent functionality back to the amputee. 

Prior to Martin Bionics, Mr. Alvarado was the President and CEO of Advancia Corporation.  Headquartered in Oklahoma City, Advancia is an $18 million company, providing Engineering and Technical Services to the Federal Government.  Its clients included a variety of agencies within the Department of Defense, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Justice and the State of Oklahoma. 

Mr. Alvarado received a degree in Marketing from the University of Oklahoma.  Upon graduation, he worked at the White House in the Office of the Vice President during the first Bush Administration.

In 1992, Mr. Alvarado returned to Oklahoma to start and be President of a telecommunications consulting company.  He joined Advancia in 1995, as Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions.  Mr. Alvarado also served as Advancia’s Vice President of Information Technologies, prior to becoming President and Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. Alvarado currently serves on several civic boards, including the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, United Way of Oklahoma City, and the International Photography Museum and Hall of Fame. 

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Louis Archambault
President & CEO, Ferrinov

Louis Archambault co-founded Ferrinov in 1998 to develop and commercialize anticorrosion additives for paint. Since 1982, he has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Entraco Consulting Group Inc., an environmental consulting company based in Montréal.

Archambault has over thirty years experience in the areas of environmental policy and environmental project management. He is a member of the board of directors of the Quebec Foundation for the Environment and served as chair of its executive committee from 1988 to 2003. He was a founding member of the Quebec Environment Industry Cluster (EIC) an association of all the environment-oriented businesses in the province, and served as chairman of their board of directors from 1994 to 1996,.

In 2002 Louis Archambault was nominated by the prime minister to serve on the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy.  Archambault advocates environmental regulation as a way of creating jobs: by enforcing clean-air and anti-pollution laws, governments force businesses to develop new technologies, hire more people and increase expenditure on environmental projects, all of which boost the economy.

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Dave Arthur
CEO, SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Inc.

David Arthur is the CEO of SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Inc., a manufacturer of single wall carbon tubules. Southwest NanoTechnologies is a 2006 ONAP Award winner.  David has more than 25 years on experience commercializing products using advances materials. He has worked at Rogers Corporation, AT Cross Company, TPI Composites, Helix Technology Corporation, and Elkos, Inc. Arthur earned his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University, his master’s from in chemical engineering from the University of Connecticut, and an MBA from Northeastern University. He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Society for Information Display.

website, directories, e-newsletters and most recently, the daily blog. Goode also served as editorial director for Sensors China. Goode brings her MEMS and nano expertise into the continued drive of Small Times to be the leading global source for driving superior innovation and successful commercialization of micro and nano technologies through the delivery of critical information and analysis.

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Lynn L. Bergeson
Managing Director, Bergeson & Campbell, P.C., Washington, D.C.

Ms. Bergeson’s law practice concentrates on chemical product approval, regulation, litigation, and associated chemical product business issues, and its consulting affiliate, The Acta Group, L.L.C., with offices in Washington, D.C., and Manchester, U.K. Ms. Bergeson counsels clients on legal issues arising from the health, safety, and other aspects of nanotechnology, biotechnology, and related emerging transformative technologies, and on chemical issues involving chemical product registration. Ms. Bergeson serves on the American National Standards Institute Nanotechnology Standards Panel Steering Committee and on the U.S. ISO/TC 229 (Nanotechnologies) Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Work Group. Ms. Bergeson is Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, home to 9,000 lawyers practicing in the environmental, energy, and resources law areas, and serves in other ABA leadership positions. Ms. Bergeson is also Chair of the Environment, Health and Safety Committee of the Converging Technologies Bar Association (CTBA). Ms. Bergeson also serves on the Executive Committee of the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), and on its Board of Directors, and serves on the editorial board of ELI’s The Environment Forum, 2003--, and many other organizations. Ms. Bergeson speaks and writes frequently.

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Jeet Bhatia
Managing Director, Bergeson & Campbell, P.C., Washington, D.C.

Harper International, located in Lancaster, N.Y., specializes in custom-designed, advanced thermal processes requiring precise temperature control and atmospheric integrity.  The company began in 1924 as the Harper Electric Furnace Corp., and spent the next 70 years establishing itself as the standard for thermal processing equipment.  But when Jeet Bhatia was hired as the company’s vice president in July 1994, he wasn’t content to rest on the company’s laurels.  He wanted to incite change and inspire his workforce.  “We were the leader in graphite and carbon fiber technology, and we supplied the best kilns for the high-tech markets (capacitors, etc.). But we were struggling with market share,” says Bhatia.  “There were a number of companies that could do what we were doing - maybe not as well, but our products were quickly becoming commodities.”  Competition was fierce, and the company desperately needed to gain an advantage in the advanced materials market if it were to remain successful.

During his first year with Harper, Bhatia traveled around the world meeting with customers.  Almost everyone he spoke with indicated the same need – the need for solutions.  “No matter who I talked to it was the same – they didn’t have the right people or needed to better understand how to process their materials.  And I realized that this is where we could step in and help, “ Bhatia says.

Turning the company around required a multi-layered initiative: creating a bold and compelling vision that differentiated Harper’s products and services, retraining and educating employees to meet the needs of an emerging business, and breaking down walls between departments.  In addition, the company began investing heavily in R&D programs, created a technology center and an applications engineering group, and began developing a company-wide innovative culture.  These demands and the demands of the accompanying growth inevitably gave rise to the need for new employees – brilliant minds that would drive the company’s future success.

The people and company hired had to possess three character traits: courage, initiative and creativity.  “The criteria I look for are very simple,” says Bhatia, now the company’s president and chief executive officer.  “I don’t care what their background is, but they must have a very high level of technical caliber.  I also look for creativity, and I look for courage, so that they can stand up and back their ideas.  You can have all the creativity in the world, but if you don’t have the courage to stand up and make sure that you’re heard, to fight and champion your ideas, the ideas don’t become reality.

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Robert Blackmon
Development Manager, Harper International

Robert Blackmon received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1994.  After graduation, he began working for HPD Products as a Project Engineer.

For over ten years, he worked for HPD Products, a group based in Chicago Illinois that specializes in industrial crystallization and evaporation.  His career at HPD spanned all facets of project development from service and process optimization, project management, process design and sales.  Robert has worked with client in a wide variety of roles and geographies.  He has helped to develop ventures in over 50 countries throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. 

Currently, Robert is the Manager of Development at Harper International.  Harper International focuses on custom thermal processes in controlled atmospheres.  Harper supplies industrial scale systems for processing of carbon materials at high temperature.  At Harper, Robert’s main area of interest is expanding market presence into emerging fields, such as Nanomaterials.  Robert also manages the activities of the Application Engineering group Pilot Testing Laboratory at Harper International, providing technical and commercial guidance to the groups’ endeavors, including capital equipment proposals and development programs to bring forward novel approaches and equipment prototypes to emerging materials markets.

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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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Wasiq Bohkari
BIOIDENT

Wasiq brings extensive entrepreneurial experience in emerging materials to BIOIDENT.
Previously, Wasiq co-founded and was Managing Partner of Quantum Insight, a commercialization firm focused on applications of emerging materials. He has worked extensively with Chevron and Hitachi on new businesses in electronics and life sciences. Previously, he was co-founder and CEO of a drug discovery instrumentation company. Previously, he was a founder and Senior Vice President of products of a software company which was acquired by a publicly traded company.
Wasiq received his Ph.D. in physics from MIT and participated in top quark discovery at Fermilab.

He has authored more than 50 papers and has 8 patents, granted and applied.

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Victor Boyajian
National Chair, Sonnenschein Venture Technology Group

Mr. Boyajian serves as National Chair of the Venture Capital/Emerging Growth Company Group. A recognized leader in his field, he focuses on representing emerging growth and more established Fortune 500 companies in a broad array of transactions, including venture capital and other strategic matters. Viewed as a counselor to senior executives and principals of venture firms, Mr. Boyajian is typically called upon to render advice on matters relating to business strategy, finance, mergers and acquisitions, executive compensation arrangements, and board governance along with intellectual property and litigation strategy. The representation of the interests of investment banking and venture capital firms in a broad array of transactions is a core focus.

Mr. Boyajian’s clientele reflects a cross section of industry sectors, including information technology, telecommunications, medical devices and life sciences. His deep network of relationships in the venture capital and investment banking communities has inured to the benefit of his clients over the years. He has been involved in transactions with premier venture capital and investment banking firms, including UBS, Wachovia, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Bear Stearns, Updata Capital, Broadview, Pequot, Rho, Draper Fisher, Sevin Rosen, Charles River, Canaan, SAS Investors, Zon, Cross Atlantic and Edison.

Mr. Boyajian is a frequent speaker on the national stage and has spoken at industry conferences in a variety of locales, including the San Francisco Bay area, New York, Boston, Philadelphia and New Jersey. Recent articles include “A Day in the Life: Looking into a Venture-Backed Company,” “East vs. West: Observations from the Trenches”, “Technology Spinouts: The Road to Commercialization” (co-authored with Canaan Partners), “Getting Deals Done in Choppy Waters” (co-authored with Draper Gotham), “Managing Your Board” (co-authored with SAS Investors), “Accelerate Growth by Partnering with Corporate Investors” (co-authored with Intel Capital), “Recent Market Trends”(co-authored with Rho Ventures) and “Adding Value Through Strategic Thinking”.

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Ken Bradley
Vice President, Development of Haemonetics Corp.

Kenneth Bradley is Vice-President, Development of Haemonetics Corporation.  In this role, he is managing their development of laser-based micro- and nanoscopic measurement, processing and control systems.  Previously, he was the founder and a CEO of Arryx, Inc. (purchased by Haemonetics).  He was also a founder of Phoenician Market Places, Inc., a technology development firm which focuses on transforming technological innovation from laboratory conception to financially successful products and businesses.  While completing post-doctoral work at M.I.T., Dr. Bradley became a consultant to ARCH Development Corporation performing technology evaluations, market analysis, and determining product development pathways for university-derived technologies.  He later directed product development for Nanophase Technologies Corporation (a now publicly held nanotechnology materials company), was a software product manager for Morningstar, Inc. (a financial publishing and data provider), and became Morningstar’s Publisher of Electronic Products.

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Andrew Braswell
Equity Analyst, Newbridge Institutional Research

Andrew Braswell is an equity research analyst covering the nanotechnology field for Newbridge Institutional Research. He is the author of Inside Nanotechnology, a quarterly report which monitors general developments in the space and updates the progress of 24 pure-play nanotech companies that comprise the Newbridge coverage universe.

Mr. Braswell has been instrumental in developing and maintaining the exchange-listed Newbridge Nanotechnology Index (NYSEArca: NNIX), and has been a featured speaker on the subject for numerous presentations and media interviews, including CNBC’s Squawk Box.

Before moving into research, Andrew worked as a fixed income associate in the Newbridge Institutional division. Prior to joining Newbridge in June 2002, he was a Financial Representative of Northwestern Mutual in Coral Gables. Andrew earned his BBA from the University of Miami in 2002.

As a research analyst Mr. Braswell holds the Series 7, 63, 86 and 87 licenses.

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Brian Bristol
Managing Director, WR Hambrecht + Co.

Brian Bristol is a  Managing Director at WR Hambrecht + Co, overseeing the firm's key strategic products: OpenIPO and OpenFollowOn.  WR Hambrecht + Co pioneered the use of Dutch auction technology for both IPO's and Follow On offerings, as a way to bring fairness, transparency and better pricing to the new issues market. Prior to joining WR  Hambrecht +  Co, Brian founded and ran the Investment Banking effort at SoundView Technology Group. Brian originally joined SoundView Technology Group in 1991 from Salomon Brothers, where he was a Director and co-head of the Technology and Aerospace/Defense Group in investment banking.  Prior to Salomon, Brian was Vice President of the Technology Group at First Boston’s investment banking unit.  He began his career on Wall Street with Smith Barney.  Brian received his B.A. from Yale, an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton and an M.B.A. from Columbia.  During the past few years, Brian has worked with clients ranging in size from the venture stage to the Fortune 500.

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Stuart Burchill
CEO & Co-Founder, Industrial Nanotech

Mr. Burchill is the Co-Founder and CEO of Industrial Nanotech. He is also the inventor of the Nansulate® line of coatings and has two other patents submitted to the USPTO. He began working with nanotechnology in 2002, after successfully managing a regional Florida medical journal. Prior to Industrial Nanotech, he worked extensively in real estate development, sales, and commercial property management. Mr. Burchill’s early business experience focused on marketing for a publicly held company, Mcfaddin Ventures, which maintained an extensive portfolio of hotels, restaurants, and nightclub properties. Mr. Burchill has also served as a consultant to high net worth individuals in the area of mid-sized business acquisitions.

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Vincent Caprio
Vice President and Event Director, NanoBusiness Alliance

Mr. Caprio is the founder and Executive Director  New York NanoBusiness Alliance.
Mr. Caprio is also Vice President of the national NanoBusiness Alliance and sits on the Alliance’s Board of Directors, as well as the Board of Directors of the Emerging Industries Alliance of New York State. Mr. Caprio is one of the foremost advocates for government funding of nanotechnology at both the state and Federal levels. Mr. Caprio has testified before the state legislatures of New York and Connecticut, and has organized the NanoBusiness Alliance’s public policy tour of Washington, D.C. for the past three years. Mr. Caprio is also a frequent speaker at domestic and international nanotechnology conferences, most recently addressing the Minatec Crossroads Conference in Grenoble, France and Quantum Dots 2006 in San Francisco, CA. Mr. Caprio has served as a consultant to leading nanotechnology research and advisory firm Lux Research, for its Lux Executive Summit in 2005 & 2006.

Mr. Caprio is a 20-year tradeshow and conference industry veteran with an impressive track record of launching events focusing on emerging technology markets. Mr. Caprio joined the NanoBusiness Alliance as event director in 2002, to steer the launch of the highly successful NanoBusiness event series as well as The Emerging Technologies Conference in association with MIT’s Technology Review Magazine. Prior to joining the NanoBusiness Alliance, Mr. Caprio was Event Director for Red Herring Conferences, producing the company’s Venture Market conferences and Annual Summit. His industry peers have formally recognized Mr. Caprio on several occasions for his talents in both tradeshow management and sales. Mr. Caprio was honored with two Pathfinder Awards for launching the New York Restaurant Show. In 2005, Mr. Caprio was nominated for the third year straight year for the prestigious Show Manager of the Year award. Mr. Caprio was named Sales Executive of the Year in 1994, while with Reed Exhibitions.

Mr. Caprio graduated from Villanova University in 1979 with a B.S in Accounting and completed a MBA from Northeastern in 1987. Mr. Caprio is a member of Villanova University’s Financial Club and serves as an active member of Villanova’s President Club and Leadership Council.

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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.

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John Cleary
Partner, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, LLP

Mr. Cleary is a partner resident in the New Jersey office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, LLP and a member of the Corporate Department and the Venture Technology Practice Group.  Mr. Cleary is engaged in a diverse corporate practice representing both public and private companies encompassing mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, and securities transactions, as well as joint ventures, strategic alliances and general corporate representation.  He is also active in advising privately-held venture capital funds with respect to their organizational structure, the issuance of their securities and the acquisition of their portfolio companies, having structured numerous funds with varying capital structures over the past several years.  Mr. Cleary has also represented companies in connection with the public offering of their common stock and compliance with securities laws applicable to public companies.

Mr. Cleary works actively with emerging growth and other technology companies with respect to accessing capital from venture capital firms, investment banks and other sources of capital, as well as working closely with members of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group with respect to the development, protection, commercialization and enforcement of intellectual property rights.

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Joseph Cross
President & CEO of Nanophase Technologies

Joseph Cross is President & CEO of Nanophase Technologies and a member of the board of directors. Mr. Cross has served as President & CEO of APTECH, Inc., an OEM of electrical metering and control devices; as President of Aegis Technologies, an interactive telecommunications company; and held executive positions with DEC, HADCO, and ITT. He holds a BS in Chemistry and attended the MBA program at Missouri State University. Mr. Cross has a background of successfully directing several high-technology start-ups, rapid growth, and turnaround operations.

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Pankaj Dhingra
President & CEO, Nanostellar, Inc.

Pankaj Dhingra is president and CEO of Nanostellar, Inc., an emissions control company designing engineered nano-materials to clean diesel automotive exhaust.  Pankaj has more than 25 years of experience, including managing a technology startup and a $650 million global automotive components business. His functional experience spans sales, finance, strategic planning and mergers and acquisitions with Delphi, General Motors and Unisys. During his tenure at Delphi, Pankaj managed the company's automotive battery business which he turned around from a $100m loss to significant profits and sold the business for over $200 million. Pankaj has BS in Electrical Engineering from India and MBA in Marketing and Finance from Columbia University.

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Jeffrey Evenson
Senior Analyst for US Data Networking at Sanford Bernstein

Dr. Evenson is the Senior Analyst for US Data Networking at Sanford Bernstein.  He has written extensively on the display industry, and his work has been covered by Barron's, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and Light Reading.

Prior to Bernstein, Dr. Evenson was a partner in the Boston office of McKinsey & Company, where he was a leader of the high tech practice and served clients in communications equipment, semiconductors and advanced materials.  He was a National Science Foundation Fellow at Harvard University, where he earned a Ph.D. in Physics for his work on electron transfer in proteins.  He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from MIT.

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Ronald A. Durando
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director, mPhase Technologies

Ron Durando is a long time, successful entrepreneur. He has a background in both engineering and corporate finance.
He is the co-founder of mPhase Technologies, Inc., has been its President and Chief Executive Officer since the company's inception in October 1996. Under Ron’s leadership mPhase produced and sold a very successful line of DSL components and is now developing an innovative power cell based on nanotechnology, which may be one of the first real “nano” products to be produced.
In 1994, he was instrumental in turning around Microphase Corporation and has doubled its revenues during his tour as Chief Operating Officer
Prior to that, he founded and was President and Chief Executive Officer of Nutley Securities, Inc., a registered broker-dealer. From 1982 to 1987, Mr. Durando worked as a Registered Representative for several securities brokerage firms.
From 1973 to 1982, he held various positions at Nova Electric Manufacturing Company, including Head of Electromechanical Design.

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Lisa Farmen
President & Chief Operating Officer, Crystal Clear Technologies

Ms. Farmen founded CCT in 2005 upon winning a Phase 1 SBIR Grant from the National Science Foundation to develop nanotechnology effective against removing both biological and chemical contaminants from water.

This past year, CCT won a Phase 2 SBIR grant from the National Science Foundation, won the California Clean Tech Open for best "clean green" technology for water.
She is a recipient of an ONAMI Gap grant and is a Lab2Market winner.

Ms. Farmen has worked in the field of water, wastewater treatment and chemical recovery as an OEM with her own manufacturing firm for 10 years. She has extensive experience in technology development through commercialization and management experience from start-up through IPO.

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JoAnne Feeney
FTN Midwest Research

JoAnne Feeney, Ph.D., joined FTN Midwest Research in June 2006 to cover semiconductors, semiconductor capital equipment, and nanotechnology. Prior to this, she covered nanotechnology and nanoelectronics in the equity research group at Punk, Ziegel and Company.  Companies currently under coverage include AMD, FEI Company, Integrated Device Technology, Intel, Spansion, Texas Instruments, and Veeco Instruments.

Before moving into equity research, Dr. Feeney served as Senior Business Strategist for Albany NanoTech, New York’s flagship center for nanoelectronics innovation and commercialization located at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Albany NanoTech hosts collaborative research into advanced semiconductor manufacturing by industry consortium, Sematech, and by industry leaders, IBM, AMD, Infineon, Micron, Tokyo Electron, Applied Materials, Veeco Instruments, and a host of others. While at Albany NanoTech, Dr. Feeney facilitated partnerships for technology and product development with both established and emerging nanoelectronics firms and provided expertise on commercialization and partnership strategies, IP valuation, and technology and market risk.

Dr. Feeney was also a founding faculty member at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at UAlbany, and held prior faculty appointments at the University of Colorado, Boulder and at the Stern School of Business at New York University. She holds an M.A and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rochester, has published in academic and trade journals on technology growth and financial markets, and has spoken extensively in the U.S. and abroad to investor, academic, and general audiences on the intersection among semiconductors, nanotechnology, economics, and investing.

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Gabor Garai
Partner, Foley & Lardner

Gabor Garai is a partner at Foley & Lardner LLP. He is chair of the firm’s Private Equity & Venture Capital Practice and co-chair of the Life Sciences Team.
Mr. Garai’s private equity and venture capital practice encompasses all legal and business aspects of structuring, financing and managing various types of investment funds; negotiating mergers, acquisitions and dispositions of portfolio companies; structuring investments in emerging companies; and participating in strategic decisions of funds and fund-owned companies.

Mr. Garai also counsels emerging life science companies, including biotech, medical device, pharmaceutical and medical service businesses. Mr. Garai addresses the strategic issues facing his clients through a combination of practical, business-oriented solutions and highly sophisticated financing techniques. He builds coherent, interdisciplinary teams to apply Foley’s nationwide "best-of-breed" talents to his clients’ diverse needs.

Mr. Garai graduated with a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1976, and earned a B.A. from Harvard College in 1973. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New York, and the District of Columbia. He lectures and writes frequently to business-people and professionals on venture capital, private equity and mergers and acquisitions. He recently co-edited "Buying and Selling a Privately Owned Business in Massachusetts" and "Middle Market Mergers and Acquisitions," both published by MCLE.

Mr. Garai was named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer for each of the last three years. He was also selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® for2007. He is the Hungarian Honorary Consul for New England and founder of the Hungarian-American Chamber of Commerce of New England. He received the Hungarian Civilian Cross, the highest recognition to non-residents awarded by the Hungarian president.

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Peter Garcia
Chief Financial Officer, Nanosys Inc.

Mr. Garcia joined Nanosys in July 2004 as their Chief Financial Officer. Nanosys is a leading nanotechnology company.  He has over 20 years experience in various financial roles at biotechnology and high technology companies. Prior to Nanosys, Mr. Garcia was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Nuvelo Inc. (NASDAQ:NUVO), a biopharmaceutical company. During his three plus years at Nuvelo, he helped raise over $150 million, acquire development stage products for the company, and led the acquisition of Variagenics Inc. Prior to Nuvelo, Mr. Garcia was Chief Financial Officer for the following life science companies: Novacept Inc., IntraBiotics Pharmaceuticals, and Dendreon Corporation. He was instrumental in raising over $500 million for these companies. His prior financial operations experience comes from Amgen Inc. and Teradata Corporation where he held a variety of financial management positions. He is currently serves on the board of directors of Moraga Biotechnology Corporation. 

Mr. Garcia has an M.B.A. from the Anderson School at the University of California Los Angeles and a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University. 

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Alan Gotcher
President & Chief Executive Officer, Altair Nanotechnologies

Dr. Gotcher was appointed CEO in August, 2004 and President in March 2005. Previously, Dr. Gotcher was Chairman and CEO of Nevada-based Indelible Technologies, Inc., and prior to that he spent fourteen years with Avery Dennison, a well known public company in Pasadena, California. While at Avery Dennison, Dr. Gotcher served as Senior Vice president, Manufacturing & Technology, and Chief Technology Officer. During his tenure Dr. Gotcher led Avery's teams that created and commercialized the Duracell On-Cell tester battery label and pressure sensitive battery labels, which created new business sales in excess of $100 million per year, and the United States Postal Service's self-stick stamp products which created new sales of approximately $100 million per year. Prior to joining Avery Dennison, Dr. Gotcher was Laboratory Director, U.S. Corporate Research and Development, with Menlo Park, California-based Raychem Corporation where he lead the business development teams that created, developed and commercialized the profitable, conductive polymer-based PolySwitch® over-current protection device business.

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Bob Gregg
Executive Vice President, FEI Company

Bob was named to his current position at FEI in May 2005. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of FEI beginning in January 2004.

For two years prior to joining FEI, Bob was a founding executive at SiPrian, Inc., a Portland-based semiconductor start-up. From 1999 through 2002, he was with Unicru, Inc., a leading provider of hiring management software systems, where he was originally a board member and subsequently became President and CEO. From 1983 to 1999, he was with Sequent Computer Systems while the company grew from start-up to over $800 million in revenue, and where he was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Before Sequent, he was with Price Waterhouse.

Bob is a graduate of The University of Oregon, with a B.S. in Finance and Accounting.

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