Speaker Bios

Mr. Murray Berkowitz, Founder and CEO of CTO Services Murray Berkowitz has more than 25 years of industry experience successfully delivering new products, architectures, strategies and technologies to market. He recently founded his own company, CTO Services, to "Enable Business Success with Marketing, Strategy,Technology and Architecture". Murray advises multiple companies and VCs. Prior to CTO Services, Murray was the Technology Partner at Kodiak Venture Partners performing technical due diligence and working directly with portfolio companies. He has been an industry leader in open source technologies, communities, and licensing helping companies create new business opportunities and partnerships. Prior to joining Kodiak, Murray worked for Computer Associates (CA) and served as Senior Vice President of Advanced Technology, with responsibility for the company's Linux solutions. He architected the company's strategies for enterprise storage and application management, data transport, change management and eBusiness. In addition, Murray has architected and implemented a number of industry leading products including the Performance Monitor for IDMS/R, Automated Configuration Management for Endevor Change control, WEBEX prototype for Web remote control and a complete distributed async messaging platform (XPE) for mainframe and distributed communications. Murray holds a MS in Computer Science and a BS in Mathematics from University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Back To Top ^

Ms. Amy Brosius, Principal of Fish & Richardson, P.C. Amy L. Brosius is a Principal in the Boston office of Fish & Richardson P.C. Her practice includes counseling clients on all aspects of trademark law, including adoption, registration, and enforcement of trademarks and trade dress. She also advises clients on copyright matters, including fair use and licensing issues. She regularly represents clients in disputes before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, as well as in federal court with respect to trademark, unfaircompetition, and copyright matters. She is an active member of the International Trademark Association and the Boston Patent Law Association. She holds a B.A. in History and Political Science from Miami University (Ohio) and a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School. Back To Top ^

Mr. Michael Dunckley, Director of Fleet Operations of Vectrix Corporation Michael Dunckley is currently Fleet Operations Director for Vectrix Corporation; a New England based startup that has developed the world's most advanced two-wheel zero emission vehicle. Mike has a background in international marketing and has worked in 63 countries. He has been involved in acquisitions in three continents. His professional experience includes business strategy and implementation, global sales development, branding and finance. Mike has conducted and supervised business across the U.S. for more than 20 years. His wide industry experience includes telecommunications, aerospace, battery, power, and water among others. Mike has also worked extensively with some of the major consultancies in the world including McKinsey, Bain and Ashridge on developing international market entry and development strategies. Back To Top ^

Mr. Craig Lindell, CEO of Aquapoint Inc. Craig Lindell is a founder of Aquapoint a New Bedford based wastewater treatment company. He is also its majority shareholder and CEO. Craig has broad civic, environmental and economic development interests. He has served on numerous local boards such as the New Bedford Economic Development Council, the United Way, The Coalition for Buzzards Bay and The Ocean Explorium as well as those of industry associations. He was also a founder and Chair of New Bedford's "No Name Forum" an open citizens' forum dedicated to capital formation and positioning the region for global competitiveness. His business experience has included the fast and free-wheeling fashion accessories as well as the highly regulated wastewater treatment industry. Back To Top ^

Mr. John Miller, Director of Operations of the Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth John Miller is the Director of Operations at the Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center (ATMC) of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. The ATMC is located in the South Coast Research and Technology Park, within a 60,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art technology facility. The goal of the ATMC is to provide advanced technology and manufacturing solutions, through industry and university partnerships, to meet current and future business needs. Back To Top ^

Dr. Linda Plano, Associate Director of the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center Linda is the Associate Director of the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC), an organization dedicated to the commercialization of technologies developed in the state's nonprofit research institutions. The MTTC has a number of programs designed to support entrepreneurs, including technology showcases such as the Conference on Clean Energy (which is being co-hosted with the Massachusetts Hydrogen Coalition and the Energy Special Interest Group (ESIG) of the MIT Enterprise Forum), Platform events in which entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to a small, hand-picked audience of investors and industry professionals for strategic feedback, and semiannual awards programs to provide marketing and prototype development funds. Linda is committed to the development of the Clean Energy Cluster in New England. To that end, she helped co-found the ESIG as well as serving as chair of the Ignite Clean Energy (ICE) Business Presentation Competition for the last two years. She is also a Visiting Scholar at the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment (LFEE) at MIT for her work in the development of a Congressional briefing on technology issues relevant to oil policy. Dr. Plano did her undergraduate work in Physics at MIT, and earned her PhD at Stanford University in Materials Science and Engineering. Back To Top ^

Mr. Neil Rodberg, Former Director of Business Development for the Venture Development Center at UMass Boston Neil Rodberg has over twenty-five years of business experience and accomplishments in private technology, academic, and other related ventures, including: venture finance, renewable energy environmental technology, IT and software. Most recently he was the Director of Business Development for the Venture Development Center at UMass Boston. Prior to that he was partner and co-founder of an advisory firm specialized in the evaluation and practical development of technology ventures and the formation of capital resources needed to finance them. He also was Director of Operations of the Technology Capital Network at MIT, where he quadrupled the rate of investment in new ventures through private capital sources and gained national recognition for that effort. In addition, he has also spent more than a decade in the high-tech industry with many of the innovative companies of that era, including: Lotus Development Corporation, Computer Corporation of America, and CompuServe. Mr. Rodberg has been quoted in Fortune magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Federal Reserve Report, Mass High Tech and the Congressional Register. Neil holds an MBA from Northeastern University's Graduate School of Business, a BA in Economics, and a Certificate in International Relations from the University of Rochester. Back To Top ^