Speaker Bios

Robert Andosca, Founder, President and CEO of MicroGen Systems, LLC email:randosca@microgen-systems.com  -  www.microgen-systems.com & www.itcmems.com Mr. Robert Andosca is Founder, President and CEO of MicroGen Systems, LLC located within the Infotonics Technology Center (ITC) near Rochester, NY. Mr. Andosca also holds the position of Program Manager/Senior MEMS Scientist with ITC. He has served in this position and as a consultant for ITC since March 2007. MicroGen is a start-up company founded in February 2007 and is developing an MEMS-based piezoelectric vibrational energy harvester (PVEH) device and power system for wireless sensor network (WSN) applications. This technology is based upon patent-pending PVEH design exclusively licensed from The University of Vermont (UVM). Mr. Andosca has over 19 years of professional experience in management, and design and development of microsystems and integrated circuit (IC) technology. From 2003 to 2006 he was a Development/Foundry Manager for Lilliputian Systems, where he managed a team developing solid-oxide micro-fuel cell (MFC) technology. The MFC power generator will eventually power laptop computers and cell phones. Mr. Andosca was the Director of Business Development and Engineering for a newly spun-out IntelliSense from Corning, where he formed a strategic alliance for MEMS design services with ITC. Preceding this he was Operations Manager/General Manager of Umicore Semiconductor Processing in Boston, MA. He managed and was responsible for profit and loss of this wholly-owned 25-person company, where he introduced new product lines of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and germanium-on-insulator (GeOI) substrates. Mr. Andosca is currently finishing his Ph.D. dissertation from UVM in Materials Science. He holds an M.S. in Materials Science from UVM, and B.S. degrees in Mathematics and Physics from USNH, Keene State College. He has authored or co-authored several patents and papers within the semiconductor and MEMS fields. Back To Top ^

David Aronoff, General Partner of Flybridge Capital Partners email:david@flybridge.com  phone: 617-307-9292  -  www.flybridge.com David is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners whose investment interests and experience include the semiconductor, enterprise systems, and security sectors. Flybridge Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm with $560 million under management. Their goal is to find talented entrepreneurs and then partner with them to build exceptional and valuable companies. They focus on providing guidance and perspective in a complimentary way to the entrepreneurs they invest in and help them build connections to soar to the next level. David currently represents the firm on the boards of Blackwave, CHil Semiconductor, MOBIVOX, Sand9, and VidSys. David's blog, the diary of a Geek VC, can be found at www.geekvc.com. Prior to joining the firm in June 2005, David spent nearly a decade focusing on early-stage investing at Greylock Partners where he led several of the firm's successful investments in the communications and systems markets. During his time at Greylock, he built a strong investment track record including investments in Akara (acquired by CIENA), Cimaron (acquired by AMCC), e-Dial (acquired by Alcatel), Ikanos (IPO), Sandburst (acquired by Broadcom), SiTera (acquired by Vitesse), Xedia (acquired by Lucent) and Xros (acquired by Nortel). Prior to Greylock, David held management roles at Chipcom, an enterprise network equipment vendor where he led development efforts in Ethernet bridges, switches and routers. While working full-time on his MBA, David co-founded the Attitude Network (acquired by TheGlobe.com), an Internet content startup with the top two game sites of the day, HappyPuppy.com and GamesDomain.com. Earlier in his career he held technical positions at Bell Labs where he developed secure network systems. David holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Vermont, cum laude and with college honors, an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California, and an M.B.A. with Distinction from Harvard Business School. David serves on advisory board for the University of Vermont's College of Engineering, the board of trustees of the Rashi School, the board of directors of the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston and as a corporator for Lyndon Institute. David also serves on the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies advisory board. Back To Top ^

Mark Blanchard, Technology Development & Commercialization Advisor of Vermont Small Business Development Center email:mblanchard@vtsbdc.org  -  http://www.vtsbdc.org/ Mark provides free business counseling to technology-based innovative small businesses statewide for Vermont Small Business Development Center (VtSBDC). Clients range from 100+ employee firms with revenues in excess of $20 million to start-up ventures. Areas of counseling include seeking R&D funding, especially through SBIR/STTR programs, general business strategy, business planning and raising capital. Prior to consulting for small firms he was Vice President of Synergy Innovations Inc., a technology development firm which won numerous SBIR awards. He served as marketing manager for a small firm producing innovative compacting presses and also owned a restaurant. His corporate experience includes seven years as Vice President, Administration for Thermal Dynamics Corporation preceded by eight years, largely overseas, in management and strategic planning roles with Caltex Petroleum. Mark is a former U.S. Navy engineering officer. He graduated from Dartmouth College and after the Navy earned his M.B.A. at the Amos Tuck School. Back To Top ^

Lee E. Bouyea, Managing Director of FreshTracks Capital email:lee@freshtrackscap.com  phone: 802-923-1505  -  www.freshtrackscap.com Bouyea joined the FreshTracks team as an Associate in September 2005, was promoted to Principal in July 2006, then to Managing Director in June 2007. Bouyea's background includes marketing, product and business development experience working for eBay, Nextel Communications and for the venture-backed startup Ebates.com. Lee is a native of Burlington, VT where his family owned and operated Bouyea-Fassetts Bakery for three generations. Bouyea-Fassetts successfully sold its assets to the Freihofer Baking Co. in 1989, a wholly owned subsidiary of Philip Morris Inc. Lee graduated from Colgate University in 1997 and earned an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in 2005. While at Tuck, Bouyea managed two small businesses with his peers including the school's retail operation TuckStuff, and the monthly newspaper, The Tuck Times. Lee was also selected to be a Fellow at Tuck's Center for Digital Strategies, where his studies focused on the Digital Media industry. Bouyea currently serves on the board of Kluster, FKA mophie, a FreshTracks I portfolio company, as well as Draker Labs in the second portfolio. Lee also serves on the board of NEHP, a Fund II portfolio company where FreshTracks holds two seats, alongside Chair of the Board, Tim Davis. Bouyea currently serves on the Board of Burlington City Arts, LCRCC's Government Affairs Committee, and is a member of the Leadership Champlain Class of 2009. Back To Top ^

David Bradbury, President of Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET) email:David.Bradbury@uvm.edu  phone: 802-656-3880  -  http://www.vermonttechnologies.com/index.html David Bradbury is deeply experienced with early stage venture capital investing, economic development policy, working with entrepreneurs on technology commercialization and business formation, business growth strategies, and mergers and acquisitions. Since June 2007, David has served as President of the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET) at which is an independent non-profit technology business incubator in affiliation with the University of Vermont. Since 1998, David has operated Aggregate Capital Partners, LLC which provides entrepreneurs, senior executives and Boards with management consulting, strategic planning, private investment, and new venture development services. He also served as Deputy Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Economic Development for Governor Howard Dean. David also serves as Board Director, Investor or Adviser to several Vermont companies and non-profit organizations. Back To Top ^

Professor Michael P. Claudon, Professor of Economics of Middlebury College email:claudon@middlebury.edu  phone: 802-443-5799  -  http://www.middlebury.edu/ Michael Claudon is a teacher and academic entrepreneur. Having a particular passion for the art of starting and growing new business concepts into successful enterprises, he has taught applied economics and competitive strategies ever since joining the Middlebury College faculty in 1970. For almost four decades, he has been creating programs that extend learning beyond the classroom and into to the real world of live problem solving and entrepreneurial endeavors. In 1987, Claudon co-founded the Geonomics Institute, which he grew into an internationally respected, independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that helped accelerate economic and political transition, focusing on enterprise restructuring and business development in the Former Soviet Union. In January 2000, Claudon started a multi-faceted Middlebury College initiative, DigitalBridges2.0(tm) www.digitalbridges20.net which creates and facilitates programs that help people transition and propel thought into action such as the Middlebury Solutions Group, which is an undergraduate venture consultancy dedicated to helping Vermont's entrepreneurs grow ideas into viable enterprises. Since is launch in 2002, MSG has completed over 50 venture-building engagements with Vermont-based start-ups, 38 of which were subsequently funded and are operating today. In 2008, Claudon launched MiddCORE - Creativity Opportunity Risk and Entrepreneurship, a total-immersion four-week program at Middlebury College that enriches the liberal arts, empowers students to pursue their intellectual and academic passions and prepares them for success in their personal and professional lives. Its almost boot-camp ambience is created by highly successful visiting executive, entrepreneur and innovator mentors who create an intensely interactive and rich learning experience. The author or editor of two-dozen books and over a dozen research articles, Claudon earned his B.A. in economics and zoology from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in economics from The Johns Hopkins University. Back To Top ^

Chach Curtis, Chief Operating Officer of Creative MicroSystems Corporation email:ccurtis@creativemicro.com  -  http://www.creativemicro.com/ Charles "Chach" Curtis has over 20 years of finance, operating, sales, and marketing experience in venture backed growth companies. In January 2009, Mr. Curtis became Chief Operating Officer of Creative MicroSystems Corporation, a nano-technology development company focusing on the solar, optics, biotech and microelectronics markets. Prior to joining Creative MicroSystems, Mr. Curtis spent ten years in the emerging alternative energy industry. From 2007-2008, Mr. Curtis helped launch a waste to energy technology start-up based in California. Key to its success were several partnerships that Mr. Curtis developed with much larger entities. From 2000 to 2007, Mr. Curtis was the CFO and then Vice President of Business Development at Northern Power Systems, a leading alternative energy project developer and subsidiary of publicly traded Distributed Energy Systems Corp. Mr. Curtis was responsible for strategic planning, business development, and sales to the commercial, industrial and institutional markets. Key clients included Johnson and Johnson, SC Johnson, US Postal Service, Equity Office Properties and Honeywell. Through 2003, Mr. Curtis was the company's CFO. In that role, he led the company's strategic planning efforts and raised $10 million of venture capital funding. He was also a key participant in the sale of the company to Distributed Energy Systems Corp. in 2003. Before joining Northern, Mr. Curtis was Executive Vice President of Confluence Holdings Corp. Mr. Curtis played a leading role in the formation and venture funding of Confluence Holdings, and its acquisitions of several manufacturing and marketing companies. He also has 6 years prior experience in corporate finance with Smith Barney, Harris, Upham & Co. and Drexel Burnham Lambert. Inc. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth. Back To Top ^

Ty Danco, Founder of eSecLending email:tdanco@gmail.com  -  http://www.eseclending.com/ Ty Danco is the founder of eSecLending, a securities lending boutique with $350 billion under administration and $45 billion of fixed income investments. It has offices in Burlington, Boston, London, Amsterdam and Sydney. Currently he is Of Counsel and Board Member at eSec. Before founding eSecLending, Ty worked in investments at Dwight Asset Management Company; Goldman Sachs; Nomura Securities; Morgan Stanley; and Lehman Brothers. He is a current or past Board Member of United States Olympic Committee; Amateur Athletic Union; United States Olympic Foundation; United States Luge Association; Champlain North Foundation; Investment Advisory Board of the American Legacy Foundation; and the Mater Christi School. Ty was a member of the 1980 and 1984 USA Winter Olympic Team and currently is working with the University of Vermont's Engineering Department on developing new luge sled technology for the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics. He received his A.B. in History from Middlebury College in 1977 and his MBA in Finance from the Wharton Graduate School of Business, University of Pennsylvania in 1983. Back To Top ^

Professor Daniel M. Fogel, President of The University of Vermont (UVM) email:Daniel.Fogel@uvm.edu  phone: 802-656-3186  -  http://www.uvm.edu/~presdent/ Daniel Mark Fogel became the 25th President of the University of Vermont in 2002. A poet and literary scholar, Fogel has led a renaissance at UVM marked by new programs, including an Honors College; new facilities, including the nation's first student union certified LEED Gold; a 50% increase in doctoral enrollment; and a near-tripling in undergraduate applications, with 21,000 for fall 2008. A proponent of diversity in higher education and a champion of UVM's leadership as a premier environmental university, Fogel was lauded by the Burlington Free Press on New Year's Day 2008 as Vermonter of the Year for his leadership in positioning Vermont as a center of green technologies. President Fogel's full biography can be viewed at: http://www.uvm.edu/~presdent/?Page=fogelbio.html Back To Top ^

Todd Keiller, Director of University of Vermont, Office Technology Transfer (OTT) email:Todd.Keiller@uvm.edu  phone: 802-656-4400  -  http://www.uvm.edu/~techtran/ Todd joined the University of Vermont in 1998 and assisted the College of Medicine in technology affairs. In 1999, he was appointed Director of Technology Transfer for the entire University. He created UVM Ventures in the spring of 2007, and there are 11 new spin off companies that have emerged from UVM research in the last several years. His focus has been licensing out as many technologies as possible from UVM as this is the only chance for the translation of ideas from basic research to applied research and hopefully a commercial product that will benefit society via product benefits and jobs created. He is the former Vice President, Ventures for Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, has had 10 years experience in marketing, sales, and business development at Corning, and has started several companies during his career. He has an A.B. from Dartmouth College and a M.B.A. from Tuck School of Business Administration. Back To Top ^

Thomas H. Moody, Director of Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC & Chair of DRM Business Law Group email:tmoody@drm.com  -  www.drm.com Tom Moody represents private equity firms, individual investors and local and regional technology companies in general corporate matters, investment transactions and a variety of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions. Over the past 10 years, he has closed more than 100 venture capital and private equity investment transactions. He has also negotiated and closed corporate mergers and acquisitions in a variety of sectors, including renewable power generation, wireless technologies, healthcare, high-tech and low-tech manufacturing and a wide range software companies. Tom is chair of the firm's Business Law Group and chair of the Business Association Section of the Vermont Bar Association. He also chairs the firm's Privacy Law Group and is a member of the firm's ARRA-Stimulus Practice Group. He is recognized as a leader in the state of Vermont in the areas of commercial law and mergers and acquistions in the most recent edition of Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers, the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and the most recent edition of Who's Who Legal USA. Back To Top ^

Mary Sector, Program Coordinator of National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA). email:msecor@nciia.org  -  http://www.nciia.org/ Mary Secor is the Program Coordinator for Outreach at the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA). She is responsible for the development and implementation of entrepreneur education programs, such as the national Invention to Venture (I2V) workshops. Ms. Secor also works with NCIIA members and strategic partners to promote invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship in higher education. Mary Secor has over nineteen years of experience in higher education as an educator, advisor, program director, administrator, and consultant and has presented at national conferences on topics related to student learning, retention, engagement and performance. Back To Top ^

Rich E. Tarrant, Founder/Chairman of Marathon Health email:rtarrant@marathon-health.com  phone: 802-857-0400  -  http://www.marathon-health.com/ Richard E. Tarrant founded Marathon Health in January 2005 with the acquisition of InformEd, a worksite health clinic company. Today Rich serves as Chairman to promote Marathon Health's consumer-driven healthcare model with onsite integrated health management programs and clinics. It is his goal to expand the Marathon Health model as a solution to the national healthcare crisis. Prior to purchasing Marathon Health, Rich had been engaged in building one of the nation's leading healthcare technology companies. In 1969, Rich co-founded IDX Systems Corporation with Robert H. Hoehl. IDX supplied clinical and administrative information systems to healthcare organizations. Rich served IDX as President and CEO until 1999, CEO until 2003, and most recently, as Chairman of the Board of Directors. IDX was acquired by GE Healthcare in January 2006 for $1.2B. Rich is a former Chairman of the University of Vermont Health Center and is a former member of the Fletcher Allen Health Care Board of Trustees, Vermont's largest healthcare provider. He was a member of the University of Vermont Health Center Board of Trustees from 1988 to 1994, and is a founding director of Vermont Managed Care. Rich was a member of the University of Vermont Board of Trustees from 1994 to 2000, and served on the Board of Trustees at Saint Michael's College from 1987 to 1993. Rich is an alumnus of the Academy for International Health Studies Inc. and a current member of the Vermont Business Roundtable. Rich was an All-American basketball player and was drafted by the NBA Boston Celtics in 1965. He received his B.A. in Mathematics from Saint Michael's College and is a charter member of both the Saint Michael's College Athletic Hall of Fame and the New England Basketball Hall of Fame. He has also been inducted into the Honorary National Mathematics Society, Pi Mu Epsilon. Rich was the 2006 Republican nominee for US Senate from the State of Vermont. Back To Top ^