The Loudoun County Science and Technology Cabinet serves as the community’s key forum to encourage the development of Loudoun County and the region as a global center of science and technology. The Cabinet undertakes or supports special projects that contribute significantly to this goal, and provides advice to the Loudoun County Department of Economic Development and, when appropriate, to local and regional partners.
Click on a member's name for a biographical sketch.
Joshua Berlin
Joshua Berlin is an executive editor at Elsevier/F-D-C Reports based in Rockville, Md., where he oversees new business and publication development for a suite of newsletters and Web sites covering the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and consumer health industries. He also serves as executive editor of PharmAsia News, a publication covering business, legal and regulatory developments in China, India and Japan.
Prior to joining F-D-C Reports, Mr. Berlin was a manager in the life sciences practice at Ernst & Young LLP in McLean, Va., where he helped advise organizations on regulatory best practices. Before that, he served as a managing editor at Thompson Publishing Group in Washington, D.C., where he was responsible for an FDA compliance manual and an online biopharmaceutical enforcement publication. Mr. Berlin is a board member of the BioJudiciary Project, a 501(c)(3) organization with an educational mission to help judges better understand technical and legal issues associated with biotechnology.
William J. Briscoe, Ph. D.
William Briscoe received his Ph.D. from the Catholic University of America in 1978 (MS Northeastern 1972, BA Catholic 1970). He was Assistant Research Professor for four years at the University of California, Los Angeles. He came to GW in 1982 as Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1986 and Professor in 1998. Currently, he is Special Assistant to the Dean for Computing and Information Technology, Director of the GW/JLab Data Analysis Center and Director of the GW Center for Nuclear Studies.
He has held Guest and Visiting Scientist positions at several international laboratories including LAMPF, TRIUMF, Saclay, NIKHEF, Bates, and currently BNL and JLab where he is co-spokesperson on experiments E909 and E103-94, respectively. As principal investigator on the GW contract with SURA and director of the GW Nuclear Detector Laboratory, he supervised the design and construction of the focal-plane detector for the Hall B Tagged Photon Facility and served as one of the working group leaders for the Tagger Working Group. He has also served on the Executive Committees of the CLAS and Crystal Ball Collaborations. He has over 65 referred journal articles and 75 conference presentations to his credit.
Vikas Chandhoke, Ph.D.
Dr. Vikas Chandhoke is Associate Dean of Research for the College of Arts and Sciences at George Mason University (GMU). At GMU he also serves as the Director of the Center for Biomedical Genomics & Informatics and the Shared Research Instrumentation Facility as well as the interim chair for the new Department of Molecular and Microbial Biology. It is through these entities that he leads the development of medical and scientific research programs with molecular bioscience and informatics scientists who exploit synergistic junctures of cutting-edge applied research. Current studies include cancer genomics, genomics of liver diseases, cartilage studies, and development of large scale relational database integrating clinical and gene expression data.
Dr. Chandhoke's teaching experience is in biochemistry, bioinstrumentation, and biology of ultrastructures. His research interests are functional genomics and the neurochemistry of stress and aging. Having received his Ph.D. in 1991, Dr. Chandhoke has published more than 25 articles.
Brian Chavis
M.B.A., University of Illinois; M.Arch., University of Illinois; B.S. Environmental Design/Computer Science, Ball State University
Brian Chavis is a 23-year veteran of the information technology industry in the Washington Metro Area. He has served as a executive in several technology consulting and implementation companies. Prior to moving to the region, Mr. Chavis was the Robert F. Hastings Fellow at the University of Illinois where he also served as an assistant professor.
During his career in Washington, he was the General Manager of Nyma Computer Products, one of the fastest growing companies in Washington during the early 1990's. He has been responsible for several large-scale network implementations, including technology refresh programs at two of the fastest growing counties in the US: Prince George's and Loudoun.
In 1986, he started ARGroup as an IT services company focusing on providing services for computer networks. ARGroup now has offices in DC, Virginia, and MD and provides strategic computer network support to over 100 commercial and government clients. In 2001, ARGroup was awarded the "Technology Business of the Year" honor in Loudoun County.
Mr. Chavis currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce as the Vice-Chairman. He is the 2004 and 2005 recipient of the Dick Brennan Chairman's Award, the highest annual honor to a Chamber volunteer.
Mr. Chavis serves on the board of the Loudoun County Small Business Development Center and the recently established Loudoun Community Health Center. He is also a standing advisor for the Loudoun County Economic Development Commission. He is an alumnus of Leadership Loudoun and currently holds an appointment to the Loudoun Industrial Development Authority.
He has been seen or quoted in kiplinger.com, techrepublic.com, Washington Post, Leesburg Times-Mirror, Federal Computer Week, SmartReseller, Inc Magazine, and Loudoun Magazine.
Mr. Chavis lives in the River Creek development of Loudoun County with his wife Amy and their two children, Nina and Alfred.
James N. Cooper, M.D.
Dr. James N. Cooper attended Columbia University and received his medical degree from New York University. He completed his residency training at Georgetown University and Boston City Hospital. He received specialty training in gastroenterology at the University of Chicago and was appointed Director of Georgetown’s Gastroenterology Service at D. C. General Hospital before coming to Inova Fairfax Hospital where he served as the Section Chief of Gastroenterology until 1982, at which time he became Chairman of the Department of Medicine. He also serves as Medical Director of the Inova Institute of Research and Education, which he helped establish in 1991.
He has received the Lawrence Kyle and V. K. Vance awards for teaching excellence. He continues to participate actively in clinical research and has published over 40 articles. Dr. Cooper held an academic appointment at the Georgetown University School of Medicine where he was Assistant Dean and Professor of Medicine. This year he joined the faculty at George Mason University where he serves as Director of Medical Research Development and Professor in the Division of Life Sciences. He continues to participate actively in research and teaching.
Robin Felder, Ph.D.
Dr. Felder is Associate Director of Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology, the Director of Medical Automation Research Center, and a Professor of Pathology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is also a Visiting Professor of Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University and a Fellow of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research (a council of leading hypertension researchers elected by the American Heart Association).
In addition to his academic career, Dr. Felder has founded and managed several private ventures spun out from the University of Virginia. He founded BioPhile Inc. (a company that sells specimen management hardware and software), where he continues to serve as the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board; and Medical Automation Systems Inc. (a diagnostic point-of-care informatics company); and Hypogen Inc. (a pharmaceutical and diagnostic company focused on human hypertension). Dr. Felder also founded the non-profit Association for Laboratory Automation, which has annual revenues in excess of $1.2 million; and Medical Automation. He serves as President of both organizations. In addition, Dr. Felder serves on the scientific advisory boards of several privately held medical technology companies, including Genetic Diagnostics Inc. (Toronto, Canada), Genesis Therapeutics Inc. (a spin-off of Aventis Behring, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania), and Guidance Interactive Technologies (Delano, Minnesota).
Dr. Felder has published over 100 basic and clinical research articles, 50 medical and laboratory robotics research articles, 15 chapters and reviews, and has been awarded four patents. He is also the Editor of the Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation and a member of the editorial boards of Clinical and Experimental Hypertension, Laboratory Information Management, Advance News for Administrators of the Laboratory, and Clinica Chimica Acta. He has received awards such as the Fogarty International Fellowship, the Young Clinical Investigator Award from the Association for Clinical Scientists, and the Young Investigator Award from both the American Federation for Clinical Research and the American Physiological Society. Dr. Felder received his B.S. in Chemistry at the College of William and Mary and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Georgetown University.
Stuart Frye
Mr. Frye is a satellite systems engineer who has worked at the Goddard Space Flight Center since 1979. His technology work in autonomous systems and sensor webs is documented in peer-reviewed publications such as the Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication and the IEEE Intelligent Systems Journal in addition to proceedings from numerous technical conferences.
He works between government agencies, universities, and laboratories to forge collaborations for implementing open source technologies for sensor tasking and autonomous detection algorithm triggering. He is the primary working-level point of contact for the various satellite flight software and spacecraft subsystem engineers, unmanned aerial system operators, robotics rover developers, and in-situ ground sensor installations personnel needed to implement the sensor web concepts. Mr. Frye was co-winner of the 2005 NASA Software of the Year award for his role in the Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment on-board the Earth Observing One satellite. He served as the Secretariat for the International Committee on Earth Observing Satellites (CEOS) Working Group on Calibration and Validation from January 2004 through November 2005.
Mr. Frye received a Bachelors Degree in Mathematics in 1973 from the University of California at Irvine and a Master's of Science in Operations Research in 1982 from the George Washington University where he was elected to Omega Rho, the international honor society for operations research. He is a senior member of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics and member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science. He lives in Leesburg with his wife and three children; and currently serves as a member of Loudoun’s Science and Technology Cabinet.
John Grausz
Born in Budapest, Hungary, Dr. Grausz moved to Sydney, Australia in 1948. He graduated from Medical School in 1958, completed his residency in Pediatrics at Yale and received a specialty certification in Pediatrics. He then went on to complete a neonatology fellowship in London, England.
After moving to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he was Associate Professor of Pediatrics and of Obstetrics and Director of Newborn Nurseries at the Medical College of Wisconsin for 18 years. In 1975 he passed his subspecialty Boards in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. He was a Founding member of the Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care, one of the first statewide organizations in regionalization.
After coming to Washington, D.C. in 1985, he became Chairman of the Department of Neonatology at Washington Hospital Center for 16 years. For the past 20 years he has been a member of the Hospital’s Ethics Committee.
Niels C. Hauffe
Niels C. Hauffe, President of NWV Market Discovery, Inc. (NWV), specializes in market discovery, strategic planning, and business development for technology companies in a range of industry sectors, including IT and the Life Sciences. He works closely with overseas companies that are attracted to the lucrative US market, helping them identify opportunities and develop market entry strategies.
He was a senior executive of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research ("CSIR"), the largest research, development, and implementation organization in Africa. Prior to founding NWV, he was both director of the CSIR's International Services' office in Washington and Science and Technology Counselor, attached to the South African Embassy.
In that position, he facilitated the commercialization and transfer of technology both to and from South Africa and served as the CSIR's liaison with multilateral and bilateral funding institutions such as the World Bank, USAID, and UNDP.
Previously, he ran the CSIR's offices in Los Angeles and London. As part of this work, he managed international projects in Europe and North America and has built up an extensive network of high-level contacts in industry, academia, and government.
Earlier in his career, he spent eight years with the CSIR's Division of Building Technology helping clients in South Africa implement new building technologies and products. Before that, he spent 17 years in technical positions in the Canadian pulp and paper and building products industry with International Paper and Domtar, where he became director of forest products and logging research.
Niels earned a BS in Forestry at Oxford University and an MS in Forest Products at Laval University, Quebec. His language skills, besides English, include Afrikaans, French, and German.
John P. Howe, III, M.D.
Dr. John P. Howe, III, Distinguished Chair in Health Policy at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, became President & CEO of Project HOPE on May 1, 2001. Project HOPE is an international health foundation, with offices and programs in 30 countries on 5 continents. He is board certified in both internal medicine and cardiology and a tenured professor in the University’s Department of Medicine.
He had been the Health Services Center’s chief executive for the past fifteen years. He provided leadership to the University's Medical School, Dental School, Nursing School, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, School of Allied health Sciences, and Doctor of Pharmacy program.
Dr. Howe earned a bachelor’s degree at Amherst College and his medical degree at Boston University School of Medicine. He served two years in the Army Medical Corps and later completed the Health Systems Management Program at Harvard Business School.
He has served recent terms as president of both the Texas Medical Association and the Bexar County Medical Society. He is a board member of the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, the Southwest Research Institute, Mercy Health Systems of Texas, and the San Antonio Medical Foundation, which develops the South Texas Medical Center.
Dr. Howe is a member of the Harvard College Board of Overseers Committee to Visit the Medical School and School of Dental Medicine. He is also the founding president of the Texas Society for Biomedical Research, a member and past chair of the American Medical Association’s Council on Scientific Affairs, and a past member of the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.
He was appointed by the Governor to serve as Chairman of the Texas Statewide Health Coordinating Council, a group chartered by the state legislature to develop a health plan for the State of Texas.
Among his numerous honors and awards are the U.S. Army’s Commander’s Award for Public Service, the People of Vision Award from the Texas Society to Prevent Blindness, the Award of Excellence from the International Association of Business Communicators, the National Humanitarian Award from the National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, and the Surgeon General’s Exemplary Service Award.
In 1994, Dr. Howe received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Boston University School of Medicine. In 1998, he was the recipient of the “Mr. South Texas” award, an honor given by South Texans to leaders who have made significant contributions to this rapidly expanding region.
He has been featured on national television and in national journals as a leader in the biosciences. He represented the United States at a Tri-National Conference on Health in Mexico City, a forum designed to develop solutions to multi-national health concerns following the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Dr. Howe has spoken in more than 30 states, has presented testimony to the U.S. Congress and has been a national advocate for the importance of continued medical research.
Lorie Karnath
Lorie Karnath is the Managing Director, International and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for Rescentris, Inc., the XML-based, life science informatics and information-service and knowledge management provider for biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and academic researchers headquartered in Ohio. Prior to these activities, Ms. Karnath worked as an investment banker in the U.S., Europe, and the Far East; specializing in international M&A. In addition, Ms. Karnath devotes significant time to not-for-profit activities, particularly in the field of science education.
Lori served on the board of the National Foundation for Cancer Research for six years and is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and the Scientific Exploration Society. She also serves on the board of The Explorers Club, and chairs its Western European Chapter. In addition, Lori is a founding member (Hong Kong) and fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (UK) and serves as the representative for the committee for Nobel Laureates in Lindau.
Ms. Karnath is an active member of the Clarke County Schools Educational Foundation and is helping to develop new curriculum fostering creativity and the sciences. She is Chair of the International Advisory Board and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Dahlem Conferences, a scientific think-tank based in Berlin. She is a lecturer, writer, and interviewer and has conducted numerous scientific and business-oriented television interviews and has published many articles on science, business, and exploration. Her books include Nobel Vision, published by ArsVivendi, Wohin Geht die Sonne, wenn ich Schlafe?, published by Nymphenburger Press and she is a contributing author to They Lived to Tell the Tale by Lyons Press.
Ms. Karnath attended William Smith College and Fordham University and received her BA, magna cum laude with divisional honours, and dean’s list all semesters. She also received a certificate in International Banking from N.Y.U. and an M.B.A. from INSEAD.
Donald Lehman
Donald Lehman is the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and George Gamow Professor of Theoretical Physics. Prior to his appointment as Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at the George Washington University (GW) in January 2003, Donald R. Lehman served six and one-half years as the University’s Vice President for Academic Affairs. In both positions, he has served as the University’s Chief Academic Officer with administrative oversight of the schools and other academic divisions. He is responsible for strategic academic planning and educational policy in the areas of admissions, curriculum, research, the libraries, academic computing, distance learning, and faculty personnel administration. In this role, during academic year 2001-02, he led the University’s strategic planning effort focused on academic excellence. Lehman also serves as a member of the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) Board of Trustees, after having served as Chair for two years (2003-04), as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) (2006-07), and as a member of the See Forever Foundation Board in conjunction with the Maya Angelou Public Charter School in the District of Columbia (since 2004).
A noted theoretical nuclear physicist, Lehman chaired the GW Department of Physics from 1987-1993, and served as the founding director of the department’s Center for Nuclear Studies from 1990-1993. Prior to his Academic Affairs appointments, he served for three years as Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies (1993-1996).
Lehman initially came to GW in 1965 as a graduate student in Physics, while simultaneously serving in the United States Air Force (USAF) as a program officer for high-energy particle physics at the Air Force of Scientific Research (AFOSR). In the fall of 1968, following his USAF assignment at AFOSR, he returned to civilian status and became a University Teaching Fellow and in January 1969 became a member of the GW faculty as an Instructor in Physics. He earned his B.A. in physics (1962) at Rutgers University and M.S. in space physics (1964) with distinction from the Air Force Institute of Technology. Lehman holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics (1970) from GW, and conducted postdoctoral research as a National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Radiation Theory Section of the National Bureau of Standards from 1970-1972. In September 1972, Lehman returned to GW as an Assistant Professor of Physics and became full Professor in 1982. Lehman was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1988. He received GW’s Columbian College Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship in 1989. In 2002, he was further recognized for his work in theoretical nuclear physics by being named the George Gamow Professor of Theoretical Physics. Most recently (2006), he received The George Washington University Award for outstanding contributions to the university.
Richard Lewis
Richard M. Lewis, Ph.D. is the CEO of Access BIO, L.C., a pharmaceutical consulting company located in Northern Virginia, USA, which focuses on regulatory strategies for the development of biological products and devices. Specific product areas of expertise include blood-derived products, vaccines, cellular and gene therapies, biotechnology-derived and tissue engineered products
Prior to joining Access BIO in 2004, Dr. Lewis was the Deputy Director of the Office of Blood Research and Review (OBRR), CBER. Dr. Lewis joined the FDA as a member of the laboratory research and review group in the Division of Hematology in 1989. His research involved coagulation inhibitors and review included many plasma derivatives. He became Chief of the Hematologic Products Branch in the Division of Blood Applications OBRR in 1995. There he was responsible for the project management and regulatory review of hematologic products as well as the clinical trial review for OBRR IND submissions.
Prior to joining the FDA, Dr. Lewis was at the United States Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases where he directed laboratory research on hemorrhagic dysfunction related to viral disease. As a graduate student at the University of North Carolina, where he earned his Ph.D., and as a post-doctoral fellow at Tufts University, he worked on the biochemistry and molecular conformation of vitamin K-dependent coagulation proteins.
Dariel Dee Martin, Ed.D.
Dr. Martin is a native of California. He received his BA Degree in Career and Technical Education from the University of California, Chico. Dr. Martin continued, later, with graduate programs in the State of Oregon and received a MA and EdD in Community College Leadership and Higher Education Administration from Oregon State University in 1970 and 1972. Dr. Martin has worked in the Community College System in Oregon as a Director of Continuing Education and Workforce Development; at the Utah Technical College at Provo as the Educational Vice President; as the Director of Educational Programs for the development of the Yanbu Industrial College in Madinat Yanbu Al-Sinaiyah, Saudi Arabia in a major role of assisting in the planning, designing, constructing and opening of the college; Coordinator of outreach programs for the Mississippi State Board for Junior and Community Colleges; and as the Dean and Assistant to the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Utah Valley State College focused on Technology, Trades and Industry.
In August of 2007, Dr. Martin was appointed to the Deanship of Science and Applied Technologies, Northern Virginia Community College at their Manassas Campus. The Campus at Manassas is commonly referred to as the “Technology Campus” because of its fast growing programs in Biotechnology and Transportation Clusters in Automotive Mechanics Technology and Diesel Mechanics Technology (with an emphasis on alternative fuels) as well as strong programs in Welding Technology, Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics.
Dr. Martin feels strongly about the Community College philosophy and combines his academic role along with his Community, Industrial, University, Government and High School Outreach role to meet needs in and outside the campus. Currently a major education/training outreach project is occurring “on-site” with MICRON Technologies, Inc., and others are imminent. Dr. Martin has also organized and implemented a Biotechnology Program Advisory Group of approximately twelve community/high school/industrial/higher education representatives to give direction and support to the newly designed Associate of Applied Science Degree at the Manassas and the Loudoun Campuses.
Alan McKay, Ph.D.
Dr. McKay is a native of Georgia. He received his B.S. in Pharmacy from Mercer University in 1975 and his MS and PhD in Health Care Administration from the University of Mississippi in 1979 and 1980. Dr. McKay has been on the faculty of Mercer University, the University of Maryland, and the University of Arkansas, and is currently Professor and Dean at the newly established Bernard J. Dunn, Shenandoah University School of Pharmacy. Dr. McKay has been extensively involved in the evaluation of the impact of computerization on health care practitioners. He has also authored articles and a book on the implementation of progressive pharmacy services.
In June 1995, Dr. McKay assumed the Deanship of the new Shenandoah University School of Pharmacy in Winchester, Virginia. The faculty, staff and students of the Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy, one of the most technologically advanced schools in the country, operate in an environment that emphasizes the use of information technology as a key ingredient in the learning process. The School of Pharmacy was one of the first in the nation to require the use of laptop computers as an integral part of the curriculum and instruction. The faculty and staff of the Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy have created an extensive collection of web-based materials that serves as the backbone of not only the traditional, but of the non-traditional program. The non-traditional program currently enrolls 150 pharmacists from around the nation, all linked to the campus over the Internet.
Daniel S. Morrow
Dan Morrow is a co-founder and principal of the Jamestown Exploration Company, a northern Virginia consultancy specializing in the establishment, growth, expansion and positioning of public/private partnerships. He also happily serves as publisher, columnist, reporter, copy-editor, and general factotum at the Middleburg Eccentric, a community newspaper he helped found, serving "the very best parts" of Loudoun and Fauquier Counties, in the outermost ring of the Washington, DC, suburbs.
Earlier he served as the first Executive Director of the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program and as Executive Director and Chief Historian of its successor, the Computerworld Honors Program. As Chief Executive of the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards, Mr. Morrow's primary responsibility was the development and management of a public/private not-for-profit partnership designed to help the Smithsonian Institution document the history of the information technology revolution by seeking out, recognizing and capturing outstanding stories of use of information technology in service to mankind.
An annual poll of one hundred Chairmen and CEOs of the world’s leading Information Technology companies, requesting personal recommendations of outstanding users of information technology for inclusion in the Smithsonian's permanent research collection, lay at the heart of the Computerworld Smithsonian Program. After review and approval by the Smithsonian, materials accepted for inclusion in their permanent collection become the basis for further recognition, in the form of an annual selection of finalists and winners of the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards, and the celebration of their achievements. The Computerworld Smithsonian Program also provided administrative and curatorial support staff for the National Museum of American History, concept development, program development consulting and support, publication and public impact program management, educational outreach program development and support, and other services required by the Smithsonian and its partners. Mr. Morrow's office was also responsible for the development of all financial support for the Program.
In his studies at The University of Virginia in the mid '60's, Mr. Morrow began an academic career in physics, and, as a result of what he describes as a profound personal overestimation of his mathematical talents (and a compensating affinity for German) completed degrees in modern European history. He was an Echols Scholar, a DuPont Regional Scholar, a University Scholar and Fellow, and member of the Raven Society. After leaving the University of Virginia Mr. Morrow did post-graduate work under John L. Snell at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and under Karl Otmar Freiherr von Aretin at the German Institute for European History in Mainz.
Mr. Morrow’s career has spanned executive positions in advertising and publishing at the Village Companies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Whitney Communications Corporation; and the Washington Post. In addition to his position as Executive Director of the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards, and its successor, the Computerworld Honors Program, he served from 1989 to 1997 as President of Cudaback
Strategic Communications. He is currently serving on the Open Education Resources Advisory Committee of the Virginia Legislature's Joint Commission on Technology and Science. He is also a member of
the Louis Round Wilson Academy and the Board of Visitors of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Dan remains an avid student of the history of the Weimar Republic, 19th Century traditions of duty and honor, and the American Civil War. He is currently working on a study of racism and racist organizations in post-World-War-One Germany, the story of the murder of a VMI cadet in mid-19th century Virginia, a biography of Colonel Charles Edward Lightfoot of the Sixth North Carolina Infantry, and annotating a related diary and letter collection from the American Civil War. His golf game is deteriorating rapidly from a plateu that wasn’t all that high in the first place. He has been happily married and an equally happy and lucky stepfather for nearly a quarter century.
Kevin Moses, Ph.D.
Kevin Moses was born and educated in England. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, all in genetics. His Ph.D. work was on gene regulation in Drosophila. He did postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Gerald M. Rubin at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied eye development in the fly. Currently, Dr. Moses is the Associate Director for Science and Training at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Farm Research Campus.
Dr. Moses has held faculty positions at the University of Southern California and Emory University. The main focus of his research continues to be Drosophila eye development, and he has published numerous papers on the genetic mechanisms of retinal patterning. He has organized and chaired several international conferences in his field and has served on the editorial board of the journal Development. Among his awards are the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation Basil O'Connor Award and the American Cancer Society Junior Faculty Research Award.
William M. Mularie, Ph.D.
Dr. Mularie is currently serving as CEO of the Telework Consortium Inc. in Leesburg, Virginia. This government /industry/academic partnership is focused upon deploying high-speed communications infrastructures between workplace and home to enable high quality remote collaboration.
He served as Director of the Information Systems Office (ISO) at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from August 1998 to September 2001. In this capacity he was responsible for the advanced research in cybersecurity and information technologies. He also served a term assignment at the CIA Office of Technical Services.
Prior to these Senior Executive Service assignments, he served as Deputy Director of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency for Systems and Technology, where he was awarded a Distinguished Civilian Award in 1998.
From 1981-1985, he was involved in the startup of several new business ventures, has served as divisional General Manager of the Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Norwalk Connecticut and as a consultant to several new business ventures and Fortune 200 corporations.
He retired from the 3M Corporation, St Paul, Minnesota in 1996. He was a Founder of the National Storage Industry Consortium (NSIC) and the National Media Laboratory, serving as Director of the latter from 1988 to 1996.
Dr. Mularie received his B.S, M.S and PhD degrees in Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.
Lewis Parker
Lew Parker is a local business executive who founded Loudoun County's original commercial winery, and is active as an entrepreneur in several medical startup enterprises.
He has been a director of DJ Orthopedics (NYSE: DJO) since May of 2003. He also serves on the Audit Committee and was Chairman of the Governance Committee of DJO. The Board of Directors of DJO considers him to be a financial expert under the definitions of the Securities and Exchange Commission. For 2005, DJO had revenues of $286 million and employed 680 people
Mr. Parker is also a Founder, Director, and consultant to K2M, LLC, a private company engaged in the development, production and sale of devices for human spine surgery. K2M, started in 2004, now employees about 100 and is one of Loudoun County’s rapidly growing medical companies. Until its sale in June of 2004, he was a director of Interpore International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BONZ), where he served beginning in 2001. He served as a member of the Compensation Committee for Interpore. From 2000 to 2001, he was a director and Chief Financial Officer of American Osteomedix , a company founded in 1999 in Loudoun County to engage in the market for minimally invasive spine surgery. American Osteomedix was sold to Interpore in 2001. He was one of the founders of American Osteomedix.
Mr. Parker began his experience in the medical device business in 1991 when he joined Kirschner Medical Corporation (NASDAQ: KMDC) as its Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Later he was named President for all of Kirschner’s orthopedic operations. Kirschner was sold to Biomet, Inc. in 1994. Prior to Kirschner, he served as President and CEO of ProScience Corporation, a company he founded to engage in the application of high technology biology to veterinary diagnostics.
From 1976 to 1987 he served as a Vice President of Hazleton Laboratories Corporation (NYSE: HLC) where he began as Chief Financial Officer and later became President of the American laboratory subsidiary, supervising about 1000 employees, including over 30 doctoral level scientists.
He is currently a principal in Lochinvar, LLC, an organization engaged in turn around and business startup consulting, and in Parkwood, LLC, a venture investing firm, Expression Pathology Incorporated, a firm producing new research methods for proteomics, and Pyramid Spine, LLC., a new medical device startup company.
He holds a BS degree with honors in engineering from Lehigh University (1963) and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (1965) where he graduated ranked 2nd in his graduating group.
Mr. Parker is the founder and winemaker at Willowcroft Farm Vineyards which is Loudoun Countys’ first commercial winery. Today, Willowcroft is in its 23d year of production and generates about 5000 tourist visits a year.
Leslie A. Platt, J.D., Chairman, Science and Technology Cabinet
Leslie Platt serves as Chair of the Loudoun County Science & Technology Cabinet. Mr. Platt is counsel at the law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLC in Washington, D.C. His practice focuses on biotechnology, life sciences and health care, including counseling and representation on policy, projects and compliance. His focus also includes emerging medical technologies and international standards and harmonization.
Mr. Platt has been in the life sciences and health care field for many years in the private and public sectors. His experience includes service as in-house General Counsel of The Institute for Genomic Research and the American Type Culture Collection, as Executive Assistant to the Director and Chief of Operations, Office of the Director, at the National Institutes of Health, and as a principal in global health sciences at Ernst & Young LLP. In 1980-1981, he served as Deputy General Counsel-Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He also served at that time as Counsel and Staff Director of the inter-agency White House Agent Orange Working Group. In the 1970’s, Mr. Platt served as Associate General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where he drafted many bills enacted into Federal law.
Mr. Platt is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Biojudiciary Project, a BIO-cosponsored, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that helps to educate the Federal judiciary, the bar and the public about biotechnology. He has taught legal and ethical aspects of bioscience management at the graduate level at George Mason University. Mr. Platt also served as a member of the Task Force on Genetic Technologies of the National Conference of State Legislatures and as a member of the International Bar Association Working Group on the Draft International Convention on the Human Genome.
Mr. Platt is the recipient of numerous awards for outstanding service. He writes and speaks frequently at industry conferences in the U.S. and internationally on legal, policy, regulatory and ethics issues in health and life sciences. Mr. Platt is a graduate of New York University School of Law and is a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia.
Randolph A. Sutliff
Randolph A. Sutliff began general practice in Fairfax, Virginia in 1973. Over time, his practice has centered upon business law emphasizing corporate, commercial and real estate matters. His corporate practice involves the representation of businesses in organizational, employment, taxation, and contractual matters. Business clients not only include general businesses, but also construction contractors, health care providers, and information technology firms. His commercial practice includes both general contractual, organizational and taxation issues, as well as borrower and lender transactional representation. His real estate practice includes a wide range of topics: land use, commercial leasing, capital and project finance, development and redevelopment. He has worked with all types of real estate projects/products (TOD’s, residential subdivisions, office and industrial parks, large to small commercial structures, health care facilities and condominiums). Additionally, Mr. Sutliff maintains and extensive Virginia and local administrative practice, including matters before such agencies as the State Corporation Commission.
Mr. Sutliff has been regularly selected by Virginia Business, based on a statewide survey of practicing attorneys, as one of the 300 best attorneys in Virginia. The practice areas for which he has been selected are Corporate Law and Environmental and Land Use Law.
Mr. Sutliff graduated from the University of Notre Dame, receiving a B.B.A. with honors in 1967. After service in the U.S. Coast Guard, he completed his J.D. at Georgetown University in 1973. He received a Master in Law (Taxation) from Georgetown in 1977. Mr. Sutliff has served as the General Counsel for the National Capitol Area Council Boy Scouts of America and currently is General Counsel to the Dulles Area Transportation Alliance (the transportation management association serving Northern Virginia's hi-tech corridors) and is a member of the Board of the Virginia Regional Transit Association.
Roland Tibbets
Roland Tibbetts retired after 24 years at the National Science Foundation (NSF) where he designed and initiated the $2 billion federal Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) in 1977. SBIR focuses on small high tech firms, technological innovation and breakthroughs to increase the economic return on investment from federal R&D in the 11 largest R&D agencies.
Before his tenure at NSF, he had been vice president of two technology firms, Hazleton Laboratories for 11 years prior to its purchase by TRW, and Logetronics for two years, both located in Fairfax County. He was also a founder, treasurer and director of Allied Capital of Washington, one of the nation's first Small Business Investment Companies.
Mr. Tibbetts served as president of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, chairman of the Northern Virginia Health Planning Council, and Executive VP of the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce.
During World War II, he was an B-24 navigator in Italy and received four Air Medals and the Distinguished Flying Cross. He is a graduate of Boston University and Harvard Business School and now lives in Leisure World in Lansdowne with his wife Maryal.
Richard Tracy
Mr. Tracy is Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer for Telos and Xacta. He joined Telos Corporation in 1986. In 1996, he was promoted to vice president of the Telos Information Security group and in this capacity established a formidable information security consulting practice. In 2000, Mr. Tracy was promoted to senior vice president for operations and helped launch Xacta Corporation, Telos Corporation's subsidiary focusing on information security.
Since that time, Mr. Tracy has pioneered the development of innovative and highly scaleable enterprise risk management technologies that have become industry-leading solutions within the federal government and the financial services verticals. He is the principal inventor listed on four patents and seven patents pending for Xacta software. In March 2004, Mr. Tracy assumed the role of chief security officer for Telos and Xacta. In January 2006, he also assumed the role of chief technology officer for Telos and Xacta.
José V. Travez
Mr. José V. Travez is co-founder and partner of Prototype Productions, Inc. (PPI), a high-tech product development and manufacturing firm located in Ashburn, Virginia. The company operates in both the defense and commercial sectors with a focus on robotics, medical systems, and IP commercialization. The firm has developed and built products including personal biometric authentication devices, NASA space flight components, surgical simulation devices, machine-vision system, intelligent sensors, and other innovative hardware.
In 2006 Mr. Travez led the effort to initialize an in-house ventures group, PPI Ventures, to focus on product and IP commercialization. PPIV provides clients with services needed to complete the commercialization process including market research, strategic planning, financial modeling, licensing, and capital raising.
To signal its successful formula PPI has been recognized as a Deloitte & Touche Virginia Fast 50 Company in 2006, 2002, and 2001. In 2007 PPI was recognized as a Progressive Manufacturing 50 Award winner and a Virginia Chamber of Commerce Fantastic 50 recipient.
Prior to joining his brother, Italo Travez, at PPI in 1998, Mr. Joe Travez spent fifteen years at Marriott International Corporate Headquarters where he gained in depth global experience completing over three-hundred feasibility studies and building eighty hotels.
In 2003, Mr. Travez was appointed to the U.S. Department of Commerce (ISAC –14) Industry Sector Advisor Committee on Small and Minority Business for trade policy matters. He is also a member of the Defense Forum Foundation chaired by former Navy Admiral Ambassador, Bill Middendorf. Current community involvement includes participation in Fairfax County’s task force on day labor issues, and the Anelemma Society (Astronomy Club) currently developing an astronomy education center for children in Great Falls, Virginia.
Mr. Travez received a Master's in Leadership from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business in 2006 and a Bachelor's of Science in Architecture from the Catholic University of America in 1983 on a full athletic scholarship. He is originally from Quito, Ecuador and is married to Monica Rodman Travez. They have one daughter, Catherine Renee Travez.
Carl B. Wooten
Carl B. Wootten, Managing Partner of DeltaTech International, was Director of the University of California's Office of Technology Transfer from 1989 to 1995, directing a staff of 60 employees. Under his leadership, the university's income from licensing and royalties increased from $9 million to more than $50 million annually in five years.
Prior to joining the University of California (“UC”), Mr. Wootten was president and chief executive officer of University Technology Corporation from 1986 to 1989. UTC, a private enterprise, had technology transfer contracts with Georgia Tech, the University of Maryland, Kansas State University, the University of Connecticut and the University of Iowa. After a successful start-up period, UTC was sold, with substantial profits to investors, to a subsidiary of Maxwell Communications Corporation.
Mr. Wootten has testified before the Congress as an expert witness on the National Competitiveness Act and has lectured internationally on technology transfer to such groups as Harvard, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the British Department of Trade and Industry, the Norwegian government and major Japanese industrial groups.
Mr. Wootten, a 1956 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, has also served as director of patent administration for Duke University, Executive Director of the University of Virginia Alumni Patents Foundation, and as an officer of several companies engaged in the use of irradiation to process food and other items.
Ex-Officio Members
Kirby Bowers, County Administrator, Loudoun County, Virginia
Nathaniel A. White II, DVM MS Diplomate ACVS, Jean Ellen Shehan Professor and Director
Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center
Dr. David Goodfriend, Director, Loudoun County Health Department
Edgar Hatrick, Ed.D. Superintendent of Schools, Loudoun County, Virginia
Randal Kelley, Vice CEO INOVA Healthcare, Director-INOVA Loudoun Hospital
Honorable Joe T. May, Delegate, 33rd District, Co-Chairman House Science & Technology
Committee
Cabinet Staff
Larry Rosenstrauch, Director, Economic Development, Loudoun County
Beth Hain, Manager, Business Investment, Loudoun County
Contact the Loudoun County Department of Economic Development for information about the Science and Technology Cabinet: 703-777-0426 or good4biz@loudoun.gov .
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