Executive Director
Redwood City, California
During his 34-year tenure as Executive Director of the Applied Technology Council (ATC), Mr. Rojahn was responsible for overseeing and managing all activities of ATC, including technology and product development, product sales and distribution, business development, project management and administration, and corporation management. He served as Principal Investigator/Project Manager/Senior Advisor on more than 100 major research and development projects and organized numerous workshops, seminars and conferences on important technical issues in earthquake and structural engineering. Mr. Rojahn has testified before the U.S. Congress and has advised the White House Office of Science Technology Policy on earthquake hazard mitigation. He has also led or otherwise participated in post-earthquake damage investigations in California and several foreign locations, including the magnitude-6.9 Kobe, Japan, earthquake of January 16, 1995, the magnitude-8.8 Chile earthquake of February 27, 2010, and the magnitude-9.0 Honshu, Japan, earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011.