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Dr. Joseph E. McCann III
Dean, John H. Sykes College of Business
Dean of Graduate Studies
Co-Chief Academic Officer
The University of Tampa
Contact:
The University of Tampa
Box O
401 W. Kennedy Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33606-1490
Phone: 813-258-7388
Email: [email protected]
Bio:
Joe is an internationally recognized consultant, researcher, and author
of two books and many articles on organization design and strategic change,
mergers & acquisitions, rapidly growing technology companies, and new
business venturing. His book on merger/acquisition management, Joining
Forces: Creating & Managing Successful Mergers & Acquisitions was
one of the earliest books to focus on merger/acquisition process design
and integration issues. It was followed by Sweet Success, an award
winning and translated book about internal corporate innovation in the food
and drug industry. His ideas and work have been cited on several occasions
in Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, USA Today, several
major newspapers, and in European and Asian business media.
He has studied the growth and competitive strategy issues of several
hundred companies in several sectors over a fifteen-year period. His hands-on
work with these companies includes facilitating visioning and strategic
planning sessions with senior management, and assisting in competitive strategy
and new market entry studies in the healthcare, teleproduction, software,
computer equipment, digital imaging, and biotechnology sectors. Recent projects
included assisting a global telecommunications and information technology
firm develop a distance-learning network in Latin America, and supporting
the global strategy rollout of a major fiber optics producer.
His professional service had included filling the role of Chief Learning
Officer for the Human Resource Planning Society, a professional association
of more than 3,400 senior HR executives and professionals. He was a governor-appointed
member of the Washington Quality Award Council, and founding trustee of
the Washington Biotechnology Foundation. Preceding graduate studies, he
worked in the petroleum and ocean transportation industries, and served
as an intern on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee. He then earned his MA
and Ph.D. in Management at The Wharton School, and taught at Wharton, University
of Florida, and Emory University. At Emory, he was a Senior Research Fellow
in the Center for Leadership & Career Studies, and served on the Latin
America & Caribbean Advisory Board affiliated with The Carter Presidential
Center.
Following Emory, he served as a consultant for two years with an international
professional services firm engaged in executive selection, merger/acquisition
screening, and senior management assessments. He then became dean of the
School of Business at Pacific Lutheran University from 1992-1998. In 1998
he accepted the newly created position of Director of Executive Education
at the University of Florida and helped design and start up a $12 million
executive conference center in Coral Gables.
Current board memberships include the Frank Russell Trust Company, part
of the world's largest pension fund consulting firm and creator of the "Russell
2000" stock index. In addition he serves on the editorial board of
a technology management journal, as an associate editor of a human resource
management journal, and board of the Human Resource Institute (HRI), one
of the top HR research centers in the U.S. Other board roles include: Tampa
Bay Technology Forum, Academic Advisory Council of the Florida Venture Forum,
Tampa Bay Chapter of Financial Executives International, and Technology
Committee of the C100 Council of the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce.
On June 1, 2000 he assumed the role of Dean of the John H. Sykes College
of Business, Dean of Graduate Studies, and Co-Chief Academic Officer of
the University of Tampa. |
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Dr. Robert G. Schwartz
The EWU Foundation Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship Chairholder
Professor of Management, College of Business and Public Administration
Eastern Washington University
Contact:
Eastern Washington University
4129 S. Tricia Court
Spokane, WA 99223
Phone: 509-280-3862
Email: [email protected]
Bio:
Dr. Schwartz is the EWU Foundation Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship.
He mentors faculty on entrepreneurship research and many new entrepreneurship
articles with EWU faculty have been accepted for presentation and publication;
several grants have been received, including a 2003-2004 Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation grant for faculty and curriculum development; a 2005-2005 Coleman
grant for entrepreneurship education. His university experience includes
research and teaching of entrepreneurship; strategic marketing and planning;
and grants/contracts management. Major publications in the entrepreneurship
area cover opportunity recognition; firm strategy and performance relationships;
and numerous technology-based firm studies. He also works in the simulation
and game area. He serves as editor of the Journal of Research in Marketing
and Entrepreneurship. His Fortune 500 business experience covers new venture
creation; new venture developments, including manufacturing, marketing and
sales; and R&D Marketing. He has served as President of a specialty
electronics firm and is President of his 26-year-old consulting firm, Strategic
Business Development. |
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Dr. Frank Hoy
Director, Centers for Entrepreurial Development, Advancement, Research and
Support
College of Business Administration
University of Texas at El Paso
Contact:
College of Business Administration
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, TX 79968-0545
Phone: 915-747-7727
Email: [email protected]
Bio:
· University of Texas at El Paso, 1991 - Present
Dean, College of Business Administration (1991 - 2001)
Chair for the Study of Trade in the Americas
Director, Centers for Entrepreneurial Development,
Advancement, Research and Support
· Georgia State University, 1988 - 1991
Carl R. Zwerner Professor of Family Owned Businesses
· University of Georgia, 1978 - 1988
Associate Professor of Management and State
Director, Georgia Small Business Development Center |
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Dr. William E. Wetzel, Jr.
Professor of Management Emeritus
Whittemore School of Business and Economics
Director Emeritus of the Center for Venture Research
University of New Hampshire
Contact:
Email: [email protected]
Bio:
William E. Wetzel, Jr. is Professor of Management Emeritus at the Whittemore
School of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire and Director
Emeritus of the Center for Venture Research. Prior to his retirement in
1993, he held the Forbes Professor of Management Chair at the Whittemore
School. During the 1987-88 academic year he served as the Paul T. Babson
Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Babson College.
Professor Wetzel's professional and research interests include the role
of the entrepreneur in economic development, the financial management of
high-growth private companies and the informal venture capital markets.
He has testified on these subjects before Congressional committees and served
as keynote speaker at domestic and international conferences, including
conferences held in Australia, the Netherlands, France, Great Britain, Venezuela,
Sweden and Canada. He served on two doctoral dissertation defense committees
at Oxford University, Oxford, England.
Professor Wetzel authored articles published in Business Horizons, Sloan
Management Review, New England Journal of Business And Economics, Black
Enterprise, Journal of Business Venturing, Technovation, Pratt's Guide to
Venture Capital Sources, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, The
Financier, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia
of Economics, Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship, the Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship
and the Art and Science of Entrepreneurship. Prior to retirement, he served
on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Business Venturing, In Business,
Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research and the Journal of Small Business
and Entrepreneurial Finance.
Professor Wetzel was a founding member of the New Hampshire High Technology
Council and is a past President of the Council. In 1993 he received the
Council's Lifetime Creative Vision Award. He founded the Center for Venture
Research in 1983 and the Venture Capital Network, Inc. (VCN) in 1984. VCN
is now the Technology Capital Network at MIT. Professor Wetzel was a member
of the Smaller Business Association of New England (SBANE) where he served
as Chairman of the Academic Liaison Committee and as a member of the Board
of Directors from 1983 through 1986. In 1998 Professor Wetzel was named
Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year for his work as a
Supporter of Entrepreneurship.
Professor Wetzel serves on the Research Advisory Board of the Capital
Formation Institute, Inc. and on the Boards of Directors of Yankee Equipment
Systems, Inc., CIM Industries, Inc., Kimball Physics, Inc., Greenerd Press
& Machine Co., Inc., MerchantBanc LLC, Centre for Community Change International,
Dover Adult Learning Center, and Shared Abundance. Community service includes:
rocky shore naturalist - Seacoast Science Center; water quality monitor
- NH DES/Great Bay Coast Watch Shellfish Program; ESOL tutor - Dover Adult
Learning Center; and e-Cares Partnership Committee - NH High Tech Council. |
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H. Randall Goldsmith, Ph.D.
President and CEO
Mississippi Technology Alliance
Ridgeland, MS
Bio:
Dr. H. Randall Goldsmith is the President and CEO of the Mississippi
Technology Alliance. MTA is a non-profit organization whose mission is to
champion innovation and technology-based economic development for the State
of Mississippi.
Dr. Goldsmith manages MTA’s vision of developing public-private partnerships
to promote growth in the technology sector a well as assisting entrepreneurs
and manufactures and accelerating the commercialization process for
university research. In addition, he oversees MTA’s programs to assist
communities in assessing their technology needs and finding renewable energy
opportunities.
Prior to joining MTA, Dr. Goldsmith served as Assistant Vice President for
Technology Transfer and Economic Development at the University of Texas
Health Science Center in San Antonio. He was responsible for facilitating the growth and management of the University of Texas Health Science Center’s
intellectual property assets to maximize the potential for financial and
humanitarian benefit of the institution and the community. In addition, he
had responsibility for identifying and developing new initiatives and
opportunities to optimize the Health Science Center’s potential as an
economic generator for the community and the state.
Dr. Goldsmith has written, trained, and practiced extensively nationally and
internationally in technology-based economic development, commercialization
and capital formation. His business principles are grounded in more than
twenty years of corporate and small business experience as a founding
entrepreneur and CEO in multiple settings. The lessons learned and the experience gained in turning business ideas and opportunities into rewarding
financial outcomes underlie the tools and methods Goldsmith uses to turn
innovations into new business enterprises.
Goldsmith’s model for technology commercialization, originally developed for
the NASA Regional Technology Transfer Centers, has been adopted by economic development organizations, professional consultants and companies in the
United Kingdom, Sweden, South Africa, Puerto Rico, Texas, Oklahoma,
Kentucky, Arkansas, California and other states. Startup companies
throughout the world who have benefited from Goldsmith’s model for technology commercialization now number in the thousands. He reports that
one of his greatest personal and professional rewards is a request for
one-on-one assistance from a company or an organization seeking to apply his
approach to commercialization.
In addition to working with business startups, Dr. Goldsmith was
instrumental in the design and management of several local, state, and
regional not for profit technology-based economic development organizations including the Texas Municipal Assistance Program, NASA Mid-Continent
Regional Technology Transfer Center, Oklahoma Alliance for Manufacturing
Excellence, Oklahoma Technology Development Corporation, and the San Antonio
Technology Accelerator Initiative.
Goldsmith was honored by the Federal Laboratories’ Distinguished Service
Award for his contributions to advancing the skills of practitioners
involved in technology transfer and commercialization. In his role as a
technology-based economic development specialist, the National Institute of
Standards and Technology, the Economic Development Administration, NASA,
states of Texas and Oklahoma, and national and international organizations
have selected him to serve on multiple state and national boards and
committees.
Much of Dr. Goldsmith’s work has been devoted to building community
infrastructure to support innovation-led economic development. Taking a
comprehensive approach to this objective, he views building support for research, entrepreneurship, investment capital, work force development,
positive business environment, and community quality of life as the critical
ingredients for a competitive local economy.
A native of Abilene, Texas, Dr. Goldsmith holds doctorate and master degrees
in Urban and Regional Planning from Texas A&M University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hardin Simmons University. |
Capital Formation Institute,
Inc.
a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach
University at Buffalo, 1576 Sweet Home Rd., Amherst, NY 14228
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