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Appendix B: Biographies of Speakers
Appendix B: Biographies of Speakers
Pages 144-173
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"Bud" Baeslack III was appointed Provost and Executive Vice President at Case Western Reserve University on October, 1, 2008, and is responsible for all facets of the academic programs and research of the University. He also holds an appointment as Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.
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As a catalyst for growing Northeast Ohio's technology industries, NorTech is leading an effort to develop regional innovation clusters that will spur job creation, capital attraction, and long-term positive economic impact.
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She served as a senior scientist and subsequently as a senior executive at Battelle Memorial Institute for 18 years; and co-founded and served as the CEO of a public biotechnology drug development company. She has received a number of awards for her work in support of cancer research, cancer patients, professional and advocacy organizations and the ongoing national effort to prevent and cure cancer.
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, a Global Innovation Intermediary focused on accelerating the growth of the entrepreneurial innovation economy in America. IA has a fivefold mission: Global advocate for accelerating awareness of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Early Stage Capital in stimulating Innovation Based Economic Development (IBED)
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and the venture capital industry (RAB Ventures) to lead the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC)
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As director of Ohio work at the Chicago-based non-profit Delta Institute, Lavea worked with community leaders throughout the Midwest to promote local watershed and brownfield redevelopment projects. Before returning to Ohio, Lavea was a Visiting Fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and taught in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she developed and taught workshops and wrote about the role of community development organizations in brownfields development and neighborhood revitalization efforts.
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Subsequently he was principal investigator for an $8 million Third Frontier Research Project for Commercialization of Functional Polyimide Films and Nanocomposites. This project integrates efforts at UA, the University of Dayton and Kent State University, and 14 high-tech companies to develop very high value-added optical, high strength and conductive polymer films.
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He serves co-Chairs of the Ohio Board of Regents' Articulation and Transfer Council and as a member of the Governor's Workforce Policy Advisory Board, and the State Advisory Committee on Adult Career-Technical Programs. Regionally, he is Vice Chair of the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education.
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Clayton serves as the Vice President of NorTech, a nonprofit technology-based economic development organization that serves 21 counties in Northeast Ohio. He is responsible for leading NorTech's Flexible Electronics cluster initiative to accelerate commercial activity and jobs in the sector.
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News & World Report) ; contracts and MOUs to establish Cleveland Clinic medicine in Abu Dhabi, Toronto, Vienna, Singapore and Seattle; and a successful 1.25 billion dollar capital campaign to support over 4 million square feet in new construction and improvement.
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Lisa has managed the Ohio Third Frontier (OTF) Risk Capital and Entrepreneurial Assistance programs since joining the Ohio Department of Development in 2008; her portfolio includes the Entrepreneurial Signature Program, Pre-Seed Funds Initiative, Ohio Venture Capital Authority, and the Technology Investment Tax Credit Program.
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Douglas has received more than fifteen industry awards, including the Global Pharmaceutical Chief Scientific Officer of the Year Award, the Wolfgang von Goethe Medal of Honor, the Associated Black Charities' Black History Makers Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers, and the Heart of the Year Award from the Chicago Heart Association and the Louis B Russell Memorial Award from the American Heart Association, both for his development of high blood pressure screening and control programs for AfricanAmerican churches in Chicago.
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, Mr. Fernandez is charged with leading the federal economic development agenda by promoting innovation and competitiveness, preparing American regions for growth and success in the global economy.
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He has also attended the Executive Training Summer School at MIT's Sloan School of Business Administration.
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From 1996 to 1999, he led Timken's automotive business in North America and the company's bearing business activities in Asia and Latin America. He was elected president, chief operating officer and director in 1999 and was named chief executive officer in 2002.
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Ray Leach Ray Leach is the founding CEO of JumpStart Inc. and under his leadership, the Cleveland-based organization has gained national recognition for its innovative model and economic impact in Northeast Ohio, leading to its recent launch of the JumpStart America Initiative in January 2011.
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One of the largest employers in Northeast Ohio, the university employs more than 5,000 full- and part-time faculty and staff. Prior to coming to Kent State, Dr.
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In the last five years, Kent State has set records in student enrollment and student academic quality; created a new vice presidency for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; provided students on all eight campuses with 21st-century facilities, including the Robert S Morrison Health and Science Building at Kent State University at Ashtabula, the Performing Arts Center at Kent State University at Tuscarawas and a rejuvenated Kent Campus library and surrounding Risman Plaza; fostered a new era of cooperation with the city of Kent, including collaboration on a project to build a downtown hotel and conference center; entered into a number of mutually beneficial agreements with leading international universities; begun modernizing the curriculum and streamlining the path to graduation for undergraduates; celebrated its centennial year; launched a $250 million fund-raising campaign that to date has raised more than $225 million, including more than $35 million for student scholarships; saw the May 4, 1970, site added to the National Register of Historic Places and launched plans for a May 4 Visitors Center; created a College of Public Health that offers baccalaureate, master's and doctoral degrees to help meet a state and national need for highly trained public-health professionals; set records for federal funding of faculty research; and earned international recognition with its inclusion in The Times Higher Education Rankings list of the world's top 200 universities.
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in Political Science from United States Air Force Academy and a Master of Public Administration from University of Dayton. He has also completed Business Graduate Studies at Old Dominion University.
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He is serving or has served as a Trustee of The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, a member of the Visiting Committee of Carnegie Mellon University, the Sloan School of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Weatherhead School of Business at Case Western Reserve University, and a trustee of various philanthropic organizations. He served as Senior Vice President-International for the Young Presidents' Organization and as President of the Chief Executives Organization.
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Mr. Pogue has chaired many major organizations in the civic arena in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio (including The Cleveland Foundation, Business Volunteers Unlimited, University Hospitals Health System, the Greater Cleveland Growth Association ("GCGA")
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A former Trustee of Case Western Reserve University, he is currently Vice Chairman of the Board of the University of Akron, and a Trustee of both the Cleveland Institute of Music (where he recently co-chaired a successful $40 million Capital Campaign) and the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education (of which he served as Interim Executive Director in 2001)
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Proenza is chief executive officer of The University of Akron. He has led its transformation into a powerful engine for regional economic development, a catalyst for collaborative initiatives, and the preeminent public university in Northeast Ohio.
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Prior to joining the Foundation, Mr. Richard was the managing director and chief operating officer of In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital fund.
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In late 2005, he was a founding member of the Akron based ARCHAngel Investment Network sponsored by the University of Akron to focus on wealth creation in northeast Ohio.
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. In this capacity he is responsible for the NIST suite of external partnership programs, including the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership, the Technology Innovation Program, the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, and NIST technology transfer and small business innovation research awards.
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Richard A Stoff Richard Stoff is the founding president of the Ohio Business Roundtable, a nonpartisan organization of the chief executive officers of the state's major business enterprises.
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Wagner previously served as president of Azure Energy LLC, a renewable energy development corporation based in Solon, Ohio. At Azure, he played a leading role in the development and installation of several land based wind projects.
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He is also directing a major study on best practice in global innovation programs, entitled Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century. Today's meeting on "Building the Ohio Innovation Economy" forms part of a complementary analysis entitled Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State & Regional Innovation Initiatives.
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Today, these venture capital funds have invested millions of dollars in companies located in communities such as Marquette, Michigan; Nelsonville, Ohio; Charleston, West Virginia; and Lansing, Illinois, creating hundreds of jobs for the people who live there and the prospect of strong returns for the investors that backed the basic Woodland premise: the flip side of a capital gap is a market opportunity! Earlier in his career, Wilhelm led a number of enterprises that could easily be categorized as the ultimate start-ups: political campaigns.
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