Life Sciences practice leader for the Americas for CBRE Advisory & Transactions.

Honored to serve as the founding president of this nonprofit serving bioprocessing companies of all kinds. Learn more at www.biomanufacturing.us.

InBIA is a global non-profit with over 1,200 members that lead entrepreneurship support organizations in 30 countries. InBIA provides industry best practices through education, collaboration, mentorship, peer-based learning, and the sharing of innovative ideas for entrepreneurs across the globe. We are the largest member-based entrepreneurial support network in the world.

Part of a connected fabric of innovators engaged in issues like supporting increased girls in STEM education.

The California Technology Council (CTC) is a technology trade association serving innovators from all industry sectors in the state of California. Every day, CTC delivers value through a set of member benefits essential to running a technology company. CTC looks for opportunities to support business development and access to markets for members through its initiatives, events and content. CTC advocates for an aspirational Innovation Agenda for California. Join and add your voice. www.californiatechnology.org.

Honored to serve as the first chair of NCRI, supporting the national community of information sharing organizations and advancing this very broad field of emerging cybersecurity service entities. Visit NCRISAOS.org for more info.

Expert superconnector equally accustomed to harnessing innovation in collaborative situations and bootstrapping start-up concepts. Beginning with PLX in the late 1990s, have continued to advise innovators and entrepreneurs at companies including Cazneau, Jujama, Farmatic Inc., Bioxiness, and others.

TECNA is comprised of over 50 technology trade associations, which, in turn, represent over 22,000 technology companies.

BioCalifornia is a coalition of innovators, investors, and industry leaders gathered under the auspices of the California Technology Council. Its members are committed to the growth of life sciences, and commercialization of discoveries to improve human health, the environment, and sustainability; and capitalizing on the convergence of biology with information technology.

CalCISO is a regional, multi-sector ISAO bringing together industry, university, and public sector organizations for sharing cyber threats, providing a suite of cybersecurity member benefits, addressing the talent shortfall, and advancing technology scouting and assessment.

The CBIA is a best practices group convened across industries in incubation and acceleration. Stakeholders include for-profit and non-profit incubators and accelerators, as well as corporate incubation and investment leaders and external innovation representatives from member organizations. CBIA is also affiliated with the National Business Incubation Association.

New ventures, innovation ecosystems, economic and workforce development, nonprofit strategy and development.

Active in multiple working groups to develop new standards for private sector information sharing and analysis organizations.

Public-private body established by Governor Jerry Brown to bring together cybersecurity professionals working together on critical issues for the the state of California.

Served as Chief Business Officer until November 2013. Supporting cyber initiatives and assisting the BAC in exploring additional opportunities for growth, especially related to innovation ecosystems, entrepreneurship and venture capital. Advancing the BAC's Economic Institute in its efforts to explore innovation in Northern California.

The Center for Science, Technology, and Society (STS) combined perspectives from science, business, history, and public policy.

Citizen board supporting efforts to expand and diversity jobs and the economy for the City. http://www.lincolnca.gov/

Community service through Rotary. Small part chartering a new club in Los Angeles in 1996. Lincoln's club: https://portal.clubrunner.ca/3063.

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Advanced the establishment of a new health care venture linking Big Data to personalized oncology.

School of Management, Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy and International Business. Instructor of MBA 5351 during Spring 2011 and MBA 6561 in Fall 2011.

Oversight of membership, events, affinity, education programs and marketing.

Served as SVP from June 2010, additionally MD of SF office from December 2010. Clients included Novartis, Bayer, Nektar, Somaxon, LifeNexus, Ancestry.com, UL, Joint Venture Silicon Valley. Established unprecedented inter-company collaboration with sister organizations, leading to over $15 million in wins for Publicis.

Engineered a turn-around which led to an 800% increase in revenue and membership growth of more than 100%. Organized large-scale volunteer efforts for nearly 1,000 volunteers. For efforts to communicate science to general audiences, awarded the PRSA Silver Anvil and an Emmy Award. Frequent advisor to states and nations on the policy climate for building life science and innovation clusters. Executed agreements for business development, sourcing and workforce development with public and private sector partners in Puerto Rico, Australia and Hong Kong, with additional trade and development efforts advancing global growth from Scotland and the Netherlands to China, Singapore and South Korea. Served on the executive committee of the Council of State Bioscience Associations, a group established by BIO, and chaired the State Medical Technology Alliance, a grassroots organization established by AdvaMed. Privileged to serve as founder and chair of the life science advisory boards to two members of the United States Congress (Rep. Barbara Lee, California 9th District, Rep. Jackie Speier, California 12th District).

Formed a partnership with Development Marketplace to recruit and coordinate health experts for the 2003 Global Innovation Competition in healthcare. Activated professional judging and mentor networks from the bioscience, clinical and academic health communities to serve as reviewers of projects for this novel seed capital program.