KEY IP TEAM LEADERS
Dr. Carol Barash
Dr. Barash has over twenty years experience in identifying and remedying barriers to innovation adoption in health care. She has worked with private and public institutions around the world to optimize the integration of genomics into health care delivery for the past thirteen years. She has helped to establish Turkey's first private high throughput genetics testing laboratory, identified new markets and brokered deals, developed clinical genetics e-learning for health professionals and consumers, worked with companies to identify and remedy utilization barriers to medical informatics and clinical decision support tools. Carol has helped to grow several early stage genetic diagnostic companies, leading business planning, regulatory/ethics compliance, new product development and fund raising. She has worked with the American Medical Association, The March of Dimes, The Genetic Alliance, and biotech companies around the world. She is widely published and her work has been featured in public media. Carol has a Ph.D in philosophy from Boston College and a M.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago.
Michael J. Bendit
Michael is a high technology strategy and marketing consultant with a 20 year track record advising a broad range of clients - from startups to Fortune 500, global enterprises. With depth of experience as both an advisor and senior executive, Michael brings a unique combination of strategic thinking and tactical execution capabilities to his assignments. Michael holds a MBA degree in Marketing, Finance and Accounting from Columbia Business School a BSEc in Finance from The Wharton School and a BAS in Computer Science from The University of Pennsylvania. His professional experience includes senior management and executive positions at Booz-Allen and Hamilton management Consultants, Lucent Technologies and Infocrossing Inc., a computer services outsourcing company.
Dr. James Burke
Since 1990 Dr. Burke has assisted public entities and small high tech companies to develop plans, programs and projects in e-business, e-learning, broadband communications, digital media/content, software and other technical areas. He has worked with NASA to assist small and medium-sized enterprises to develop and commercialize products based on NASA technology.
Dr. Burke graduated with a B.S. in Physics from Villanova University, and worked as a nuclear engineer in the US Navy. After obtaining a Doctorate in Planning from UC Berkeley in 1981, Dr. Burke worked with Bechtel Civil Corporation as a Chief Planner and Project Manager.
Bob Chiozzi
Since 1990 when Bob founded Growth Management, Incorporated, a business and technology consulting company, he has been assisting entrepreneurs with the issues and obstacles of starting and operating a growing business. Bob’s focus has been on commercializing research and development, technical project planning and financial controls, grant preparation and accessing capital. The focus of Growth Management, Inc. has been on the biotechnology, IT, and advanced materials industries. Working with investment groups, Bob managed the technological milestones, financial progress and commercialization efforts of a portfolio of 23 projects from 20 separate technology companies (mostly start-up and small fast growth) covering four industrial sectors. Bob continues to assist start-up and expanding technology companies with focusing their technical effort, raising capital and commercializing their technologies. He is comfortable in either the scientific or business cultures, often using his technical skills and business acumen to translate IP into commercial value.
Alex Day
After receiving a B.S. in physics, Alex began his career with the pharmaceutical company Audax, Inc., as a technical liaison setting up animal studies for major pharmaceutical companies. Alex moved on to VP of Business Development where he was responsible for licensing a pharmaceutical treatment for irritable bowel syndrome and was later promoted to President of the company where he significantly increased annual revenues. Alex has substantial experience with intellectual property issues, manufacturing of dietary supplements, and new drug development. He left Audax in August of 2000 to found Sheltowee. Alex is a cofounder and President of the Kentucky Life Sciences Organization, a board member of the Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation and was appointed by the Governor of Kentucky to serve on the Kentucky Tobacco Research Board.
Hal Etterman
Hal has over 25 years of extensive international and domestic experience in Finance, Operations, IT, Sales and Marketing including 10 years as a CFO and COO. Hal had worked earlier for Siemens, Philips, and Olivetti, totaling over 20 years, and has spent the last 10 years in Silicon Valley. As a consultant, he has supported early stage companies, including serving as interim CEO, for high technology startups by developing business strategies, capital fund raising and business development. He also helped grow several startups including an OEM PC board manufacturer, a video security integration software developer and helped turnaround a medical laser device manufacturer. Hal holds an MBA from the University of Hartford.
Dr. Allen Flores
Dr. Allen W. Flores holds a B.A. from Yale College, an MBA from the Yale School of Management, and a Ph.D. from the University of London. He was a professor of quantitative analysis at the Yale School of Management before embarking on a twenty-five year consulting career spanning five continents. His work has centered on applying quantitative, statistical, and probabilistic techniques to business process reengineering, supply chain streamlining, pricing theory, and distribution, warehouse, and inventory optimization.
Among Dr. Flores' notable clients include: General Electric, Smith, Kline & French, Goodyear Tire and Rubber, Dupont, Duracell Batteries, and Procter & Gamble. For AlliedSignal/Honeywell, he helped turn around fourteen acquired aerospace divisions with forecasting, inventory, and distribution problems;
In addition to his consulting work, Dr. Flores has been an Executive Committee Member of the Conference Board's Global Business Management Council, and an invited speaker at the British House of Lords and the United Nations. He has received recognition from the British Prime Minister for work with the National Health System and from the European Parliament for his work defining pan-European telecommunications standards, and he was the recipient of a 1987 Presidential Achievement Award by President Reagan, for his work streamlining the supply chain for the armed services.
Bobby Hill
Bobby Hill is a Co-Founder of MindForce. He has served as
an outside Advisor to MBAGlobalNet since its founding in
1997, and has nearly 20 years of professional services and
management consulting experience. Over the past 10 years,
Bobby has advised a wide variety of organizations on market
strategy, revenue generation, and new business design &
implementation. His clients have included AIG, The Capital
Group, Kemper Insurance, and Somerset Partners among others.
In addition to his role with MindForce, Bobby currently
serves as an external consultant to the Madison Consulting
Group -- a strategy firm specializing in the financial services
industry. He spent the majority of his professional career
with Bankers Trust in New York and London; and earned his
MBA from the University of Pittsburgh in 1985.
Dr. Robert Kenmore
Dr. Robert Kenmore has worked mainly in operational capacities inside several high and low technology industries across both the service and manufacturing sectors. He has also served as an external consultant through Ernst & Young's Management Performance Improvement practice.
Robert's career focuses predominantly on quality, its opposite (waste), intrapreneurship, and performance metrics. He currently teaches business principles and practices at the Keller Graduate School of DeVry University. His educational credentials include: GCE "O" & "A"-Levels in Economics, Math, and French; a bachelor's degree from Stanford University in Economics; an MBA in Quality Management & Statistics from the University of Chicago; and a doctorate, also from the University of Chicago.
Mark Koester
Mark possesses over 25 years of domestic and international marketing and marketing management experience in the diagnostics and life sciences research industries. He has performed marketing, business development and sales and marketing restructuring for technology driven IVD companies. His analytical approach to problem solving and dedication to market driven philosophies have helped him create successful products and services. Over the last 15 years, he managed the worldwide marketing effort for several high technology companies where he was successful in the significant growth of direct sales and in the development of sales channels through sales agents and distributors. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in microbiology and immunology from the University of Washington and a Master of Business Administration degree from Santa Clara University.
Rogelio Nochebuena
Rogelio has more than twenty years of experience in high tech, being responsible for new product development and successful market introduction of different products that use novel technologies such as: Nanotechnology, RF MEMS, semiconductors and opto-electronics for telecommunications, industrial and consumer products and medical devices. Having worked in R&D, manufacturing, design, marketing and strategy, Rogelio brings very valuable insights regarding the interaction between technology and business. He has worked for such organizations as Agilent Technologies, Xerox PARC, Xerox Corp. Carl Zeiss and Perkin-Elmer.
Current and past projects focus on providing cost-effective solutions to engineering and business problems that entrepreneurs/small companies face such as improving processes, cost-reduction initiatives, deploying new technology, and ramp-up production. Using his strong business acumen, he is able to identify new markets and products capable of generating strong and sustainable revenue. He assists Angel Investors and VC's to assess companies from their technology viewpoint, as well as consults for public and private research organizations and tier-one universities in technology commercialization. His clients also include Mexican and European companies. He holds a BSEE and an MBA From the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University with all the course work for a MSEE completed from BYU
Arthur D. Rogers
For the past 25 years, Arthur has served as an expert consultant and professional practitioner on the best practices in strategic intellectual property, technology transfer, licensing, and commercialization . He provides his services to numerous small and large businesses, and has negotiated technology licensing/commercialization agreement with several industrial, university and government scientific research laboratories. He has written several papers and several business operations manuals, and has been selected to make presentations for numerous workshops/seminars sponsored by organizations such as The National Academy of Sciences, Licensing Executives Society, Federal Laboratory Consortium, American Society of Mechanical Engineers - International Mechanical Engineering Congress and RD&D Expo, National Manufacturing Week/EnviroTech Expo and Conference, Small Business Administration, and National Minority Supplier Development Council. He also served as one of the external reviewer for the Institute of Medicine/National Academics (National Academy of Sciences) Workshop report on "From Source Water to Drinking Water: Ongoing and Emerging Challenges for Public Health."
Arthur received his undergraduate education from Metropolitan State College and Graduate from the University of Pittsburgh, and has worked for the National League of Cities/US Conference of Mayors, City of Los Angeles/Washington Office, Office of Naval Research/Center of Excellence for Best Manufacturing Practices (contractor/consultant).
Steven Ryzner
Steve has 20 plus years of hands on manufacturing experience with a bottom line business focus. Combining a BS in Electrical Engineering (University of Illinois) and an MBA (Kellogg) with implementation experience from the shop floor to the boardroom, he excels at translating complex operational issues into a simple business framework.
Steve has taught and implemented statistical process control (SPC) and other six sigma / continuous improvement tools since the 1980s. In addition, his engineering and reliability centered maintenance skills have repeatedly resulted in systemic improvements in volume, cost, customer service, and asset reliability across different industries. His leading role helped his plant become the only facility in its industry to achieve ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 certifications on the first attempt. He directed the engineering team for a 180 MW multiple fuel co-generation power station, and was successfully optimizing large rotating equipment long before that became a "green" effort. He integrates alternative energy / green efforts cohesively into the existing energy infrastructure and business model of a plant.
Steve mentors emerging renewable and alternative energy companies, and assists them with their commercialization plans. His skills in moving from the prototype stage to permanent operations have been especially valuable to clients.
He also provides M&A due diligence advisory services for private equity firms.
Stewart Sando
Stew has over thirty years of experience bringing new products and technologies to market for major semiconductor companies, high technology start ups and institutional clients. He has expertise in the areas of RISC processors, digital signal processors, multimedia devices and image processing, non-volatile memory devices, broadband DSL and cable devices, image sensors, fiber optic devices, solid state laser devices and RF power devices. In addition, he has worked with technologies ranging from silicon to gallium arsenide integrated circuits, III-V laser and RF power devices, MEMS devices, medical devices, and Nanotechnology.
Recent engagements have included consulting in the area of next generation plasma etching down to atomic dimensions and licensing of a MEMS RF Switch device patent from a major research institution into a high volume cell phone chip set application. During his earlier career in Silicon Valley he held senior positions in product line management, business development, and marketing management at major semiconductor companies, including Intel, Cypress Semiconductor and Hitachi Semiconductor, as well as, serving in business development and consulting roles for startups and research institutions. Stewart has a B.S. in Physics and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
John Thompson
Driving innovation and working with technologies that have the potential to take insight and intelligence to a new level, has been the focus of John’s efforts over the past 21 years.
Starting out as a programmer and arriving at a position of running worldwide marketing and business development for a number of emerging firms has been exciting, fun and rewarding. John’s experience spans all major marketing, product management and business development functions for high technology organizations.
His technology expertise includes Grid Computing, CRM, analytical CRM, data mining, text mining, knowledge discovery, analytical applications, data exploration, data warehousing, database systems, and high performance computing.
John has worked in the US, UK, Latin America, Europe, and Asia regarding the issues around building world-class systems including data warehouses, intelligence infrastructures and applied intelligence systems.
John is a frequent speaker on topics around building and maintaining competitive advantage through innovative technology. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Ferris State University and a MBA in Marketing from DePaul University.
Martin Wolf
Martin has over 20 years of experience in both the business and technology aspects of high tech product development. He has worked with a number of new technology driven startups in a number of fields including a waste to fuel conversion, biometrics, stationery, and gaming.
Previously, Martin was the Vice President of Advanced Systems at PanAmSat (now merged with Intelsat), a leading satellite network operator where he oversaw the development of a satellite based broadband service, advised the CEO on numerous ventures, and had leading roles in satellite and rocket procurements worth over $1 billion. Additionally, he designed the payloads for six satellites in PanAmSat's current fleet, and created business and pricing models for direct-to-home television and data services.
Martin has an MSE and BSE from Princeton and an MBA from Columbia.
Courtney Wood
Courtney is a veteran “Big 4” consultant experienced in delivering bottom line results: developing revenue generating strategies; selling/building businesses; identifying expense reducing opportunities; and planning efforts and building/leading teams to achieve expected results.
In 2001, Courtney led the Mindforce Consulting Technology Commercialization team that produced the Market Assessment for LLNL’s Hand-held Gas Chromatography technology. Prior to joining Mindforce, Courtney's most recent role was as Chief Strategist for and co-founder of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's Center for Enterprise Creation where she developed and managed a new "incubator" service line dedicated to defining and launching new "connected economy" enterprises.
Before entering the consulting field, Courtney earned an M.B.A. from the Columbia Business School and worked as an M&A analyst and commercial lender.
Bernie Zuzo
Bernie has more than 25 years experience, with the past 19 years focused on technology commercialization including technology marketing, partnering, and deal structuring. Projects have been as large as the 84-member, $116 million consortium on Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (AGATE) and as small as a $50,000 out-licensing transaction for a biochemical compound. He is recognized for successful transactions in the three economic cultures of industry, government, and universities. His work is characterized by innovative techniques for moving through negotiation sticking points with specialized flowcharts, fiduciary and milestone management systems, allowing him to facilitate agreements for complex R&D transactions in a variety of technologies ranging from material science to biotechnology.
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