OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE - Key Persons

Andrew Gyekenyesi

an..@oai.org

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Research Team Manager

Brett Roubinek

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President and CEO / Transportation Research Center Inc.

Carlos Grodsinsky

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Member of the Board of Trustees

Christina Bloebaum

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Member of the Board of Trustees
Dean, College of Aeronautics and Engineering / Kent State University

Christopher Hocevar - CFO

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Chief Financial Officer
Treasurer of the Board

Colleen is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Biology, University of Akron and a corporate Biomimicry Fellow jointly sponsored by NASA Glenn Research Center and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. At UA, her dissertation work focuses on integrating inclusive design into bio-inspired design. In the lab, she studies how animal locomotor biomechanics can inspire novel all-terrain mobility aid designs. At NASA, Colleen works alongside engineers and data scientists to develop an AI design and translation tool (PeTaL) to streamline nature-inspired solution discovery for practitioners. She has also served as the lead organizer for Biocene 2019-2020 and coordinates NASA's V.I.N.E. (Virtual Interchange for Nature-inspired Exploration), a collaborative network of academics, industry experts, and citizen scientists with a shared interest in nature-inspired research.

Doug Ebersole

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Vice President / Cornerstone Research Group

Eugene Shin

eu..@oai.org

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Research Team Manager

Gail Dolman-Smith

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President & CEO / Paragon

Heather Best - VP of Sales

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Vice President, Sales and Marketing

J. Michael Oakes

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Member of the Board of Trustees
Senior Vice President for Research & Technology Management / Case Western Reserve University

James Gilland

ja..@oai.org

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Research Team Manager

John E. Leland

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President / Leland Technologies, LLC

John M. Sankovic - CEO, President

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CEO
President

Dr. Sankovic comes to Ohio Aerospace Institute following a distinguished 31-year career at NASA, where he most recently served as center chief technologist and director of the Office of Technology Incubation and Innovation. There, he received numerous awards, including the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, six Agency Honor Group Achievement Awards and an R&D100 technology innovation award.