EventSponsors To transfer to Sponsor's website, simply click on their logo. Serious SBIR Awardees If the business development aspects of your effective SBIR involvement are important to you... you may wish to consider the comprehensive Advanced Individual Account In this context, Speakers are those persons who will participate in the informational and analytical working sessions and clinics which make up the Event Program - see Schedule. A few will play a role in both the Support Program and in the Tech Seeker Partnering sessions. They are so noted.      Those SBIR Awardees and Tech Seekers who will play an active role in the program as what are called here Participants are so listed in that area of the site. In major part, these persons will have made applications to be considered EITHER as presenters - those who have provided White Papers for Tech Seeker consideration OR are involved as full-blown Tech Seekers - those actively participant in the pre-event SBIR ASSETs process Click on the name and the bio will appear in a separate window. Clara Asmail NIST: SBIR, Gaithersburg MD Alan Ayers Strategic Innovation Group LLC, formerly Energizer, Glastonbury CT Rochelle S Blaustein US Department of Energy, Washington DC Charles J Brez Charles Brez Associates: formerly NineSigma Inc, Chagrin Falls OH Ronald E Cahill Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP, Boston MA J Michael Cameron The Sherwin Williams Company, Cleveland OH Mark Cavender Chasm Institute, San Bruno CA Joseph J Cote Jr Cote Associates, Cambridge MA Tim Cusack FMC Agriculture, Philadelphia PA Jacob (Jesse) N Erlich Burns & Levinson LLP, Boston MA Ann Eskesen Innovation Development Institute, Swampscott MA James R Freedman MIT Technology Licensing Office, Cambridge MA Larry Gess TAEUS International Corporation, Colorado Springs CO Jere W Glover Small Business Technology Coalition (SBTC); also, Brand Law Group, Washington DC Chris Hartshorn Lux Research, Boston MA Mildred Hastbacka TIAX LLC (formerly Arthur D. Little’s Technology & Innovation), Cambridge MA Joanne Hyland Radical Innovation Group, Wells ME Michael T Hyzny DuPont, Wilmington DE Ara A Jeknavorian W. R. Grace & Co., Cambridge MA Shrikant N Khot The Dow Chemical Company, Midland MI Stewart Mehlman Praxair Inc, Danbury CT Paul Mele US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick MD Lawrence Nannis Levine, Katz, Nannis and Solomon, PC, Needham MA Matthew M Nordan Venrock, Cambridge MA Caryn Oryniak Church & Dwight Co Inc, Hillsborough NJ T James Rudd National Science Foundation, Arlington VA Ralph Russo Strategic Polymer Sciences Inc, State College PA David Sikora Chemtura Corporation, Middlebury CT Janice Twombly The Rhythm of Business Inc; also, Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP), Newton MA Barry Unger Boston University, Boston MA