Tom is a Resource Manager for NIST MEP, helping Centers improve their operations, impacts and success while providing programmatic oversight. Prior to his 1.5 years with NIST, Tom came to the MEP Program with over 20 years broad experience in private industry and professional services. Earlier in his career, he worked as a process engineer …
Smitha James serves as the Senior Associate Director of Life Sciences programs in the University at Buffalo’s Office of Business and Entrepreneur Partnerships. In this role, she leads program management and industry engagement for UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, UB Center for Advanced Technology in Big Data and …
Alex Wiltschko is the CEO of Osmo, and an entrepreneur in residence at GV. He joined the life sciences team in 2022, where he’s focused on advancing the field of digital olfaction. Alex is a repeat entrepreneur who has spent much of his career exploring new frontiers in artificial intelligence. He is also the co-host …
Ted is an experienced entrepreneur who has been CEO, COO, CFO, and Chairman in companies covering a broad range of technologies including medical devices, life science molecular tools, waste heat to energy conversion, new materials, and MEMS devices. Ted received a BA in Economics Phi Beta Kappa in three years from Union College and an …
Alexandros Tsamis is an Architect and Assistant Professor at the school of architecture, RPI. He is the Graduate Program Director of Built Ecologies MS & PhD and the Associate Director of CASE. He earned his PhD in Architecture, Computation and Master of Science (SMArchS) in Building Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He …
Tracy Foltz is President of Falk Precision Inc, an employee-owned precision machine shop, in East Syracuse. Prior to accepting the position of President in 2016, Tracy served as a human resources manager for over 10 years in the trucking and manufacturing industries as well as a year as Chief Administrative Officer. She earned her M.S.Ed. …
Tory Van Voorhis is the founder and CEO of Second Avenue Learning, an award-winning educational software studio that has been producing educational games, simulations, and interactives for 17 years. She has served as the principal investigator for multiple Department of Education and National Science Foundation grants. Tory currently serves on the boards of the RMSC …
Ryan M. Silva has served as Executive Director of the New York State Economic Development Council (NYSEDC) since August of 2017. Ryan has helped NYSEDC achieve several landmark policy development wins including passage of The New York State Green Chips Act and the Federal CHIPs and Science Act, the creation of the Fast NY (Shovel …
Somak Chattopadhyay has been operating and investing in early-stage startups in New York State and other emerging venture regions since 1999. Before launching ASV in 2014, he was a partner at Tribeca Venture Partners (formerly Greenhill SAVP, “Tribeca”), where he was instrumental in nearly every investment of its first fund and helped launch its second …
Dr. Foley joined Deerfield in 2018. Most recently, he was the CEO and Sanders Director at Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute (Tri-I TDI) where he led the efforts to discover drug candidates in an academic setting. Prior to Tri-I TDI, he was Director of the Chemical Biology Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. …
