NSURIF - Key Persons

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• Member of the Board
• Treasurer
• Treasurer of the Board
• Professor of Physics at Norfolk State University

Doyle Temple is a Professor of Physics at Norfolk State University where he leads the Quantum Electronics Research Group and the Crystal Physics and Quantum Electronics Laboratory. After obtaining a Ph.D. degree in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, Dr. Temple joined the faculty of Louisiana State University (LSU) where he began a research program in quantum electronics, concentrating on ultrashort pulse laser spectroscopy and single crystal growth. As an Assistant Professor of Physics, he became LSU's first African American professor in the College of Basic Sciences. The company he started in 1988 while a graduate student, Applied Physics Inc., was the first business in the LSU Business and Technology Center founded by an LSU professor, as well as, the Center's first business to be awarded an SBIR. In 2010, Dr. Temple received the Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV).

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• Member of the Board
• Vice Chair of the Board

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• Member of the Board

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• Member of the Board

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• Executive
• Executive Director
• Member of the Board
• Secretary

Hudnall Croasdale currently serves as the Executive Direct and Chief Executive Officer of the Norfolk State University Research & Innovation Foundation (NSURIF), a 501(c)(3), affiliated with Norfolk State University. He previously served at Virginia Tech as the Director of Information Technology Strategic Partnerships. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, Mr. Croasdale was the Director of the Old Dominion University Northern Virginia Higher Education Center. He was also appointed during the administration of Virginia Governor George Allen as the Director of the Council on Information Management, serving as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Mr. Croasdale also has over 22 years of information technology experience in the private sector serving as the Senior Vice President for Marking & Business Development with Lockheed Martin IMS, and other senior management positions with AT&T and the C&P Telephone Company. Mr. Croasdale has a Master of Science degree in Systems and Industrial Management from the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angles, California and a Bachelor of Science degree in education from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia

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• Member of the Board
• Board Member and Co - Founder of Tangible Asset Corp

Joseph Temple is currently board member and co-founder of Tangible Asset Corp (TAC), an intelligent asset solutions company focused on innovation in the supervision of hard services of a built structure. As an investor at Windpact Inc., he previously served as its CMO. He is also founder of other start-ups including a relationship marketing company and a customer collaboration technology company. Joseph is an advisor and angel investor to early stage companies where he provides in-depth knowledge in areas of marketing, information technology, finance and business strategy. He is a former analyst for Booz Allen Hamilton and an alumnus of the Classic MCI Group. Joseph earned his B.S. in Business Administration and Accounting from Norfolk State University (NSU). He is also a member of the board of directors of the NSU Research and Innovation Foundation

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• Member of the Board
• Secretary of the Board
• Principal Product Manager, OpenStack Red Hat

Focused on Red Hat OpenStack product development, strategy and management with emphasis on elastic cloud management and security features for scaled deployments. Currently working with the OpenStack community and Red Hat partners on TripleO, Tuskar and Ironic as a community driven OpenStack deployment and management service.

Job Titles:

• Chairman
• Member of the Board

Marty Kaszubowski has over 30 years of experience with a broad spectrum of public- and private-sector organizations promoting new venture formation, early-stage investment, technology commercialization, and innovation-led economic development. Marty is an effective, widely recognized advocate for innovation-led economic development and entrepreneurship at the local, state, and national levels, and has served on the Governor's Small Business Advisory Board, the Board of the Virginia Business Incubation Association, and supported Virginia's Department of Business Assistance in realigning Virginia's small-business programs to better support early-stage, high-growth, entrepreneurial ventures. Marty is often tapped by the US State Department and related Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to provide entrepreneurship training and mentoring, and has led start-up seminars and judged Business Plan contests in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, and Ukraine. Marty recently joined Old Dominion University (ODU) as Executive Director of the new Center for Enterprise Innovation, which offers a collection of integrated services for existing and new businesses. Until taking the new position at ODU, Marty was President of General Ideas, a technology venture consultancy working with US and European start-ups and early-stage companies seeking to establish viable business models and prepare for initial investment. Prior to his stint as a private consultant, Marty was Director of the Innovation Strategies Practice at Kaufman & Canoles Consulting, and served as Vice President for Strategic Development at the Earl Technology Group (ETG), where he helped rapidly expand ETG via acquisition of several early-stage technology-based companies. In the late-1990s, Marty was the founding Director of the Hampton Roads Technology Incubator (HRTI), later served as Executive Director of the Hampton Roads Technology Council (HRTC). He is a member of several startup company Boards and is currently a member of the Board of Advisors of the Launch Place Seed Fund, a member of the Board of Advisors for 757Angels, and Chairman of the Board of the Norfolk State University Research and Innovation Foundation. Marty holds a Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Master's Degree in Technology Management from the George Washington University.

Job Titles:

• Chief
• Member of the Board
• Chief Community Engagement Officer at McKinley Megginson Group

Mr. Jordan is the chief community engagement officer at the McKinley Megginson Group. Rodney Jordan additionally is the Superward 7 representative on the Norfolk School Board in Virginia and served as Board Chairman. Mr. Jordan won election to another term on the Norfolk School Board, in the first general election for the school board in over 60 years, on May 3, 2016. Jordan was originally appointed to the school board in 2012 by the Norfolk City Council.In addition to his service on the school board, he volunteers with the Park Place Civic League, the Norfolk Sister City Association, the Urban League of Hampton Roads, and the Hampton Roads Committee of 200+ Men

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• Member of the Board

Since March 2015, Mr. Nixon has served in the position of Chief Administrative Officer of the Virginia State Corporation Commission having been nominated by the commissioners of that agency. Previously he served as the Chief Information Officer of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and head of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA). Also, Mr. Nixon served in the Virginia House of Delegates from March 1994 to April 2010, representing the 27th district in Chesterfield County, the southern suburbs of Richmond.

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• Chairman of the Board
• President and CEO of G2 Ops Inc

Tracy Gregorio is the President and CEO of G2 Ops Inc., a small business specializing in model-based systems engineering, cybersecurity and strategic consulting in support of the Federal Government and commercial clients. She has served in strategic and leadership positions for Regent University, The Family Channel and U.S. Government. She holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Old Dominion and a B.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.

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• Member of the Board
• Old Dominion University 's Director of Information Technology Infrastructure and Former Assistant Director of Communications Services

WAYNE C. JONES is Old Dominion University's Director of Information Technology Infrastructure and former Assistant Director of Communications Services. He serves as co-principal investigator for a National Science Foundation funded research grant project to design and implement a "Science DMZ" environment and as chief design and implementation engineer for a next generation optical network linking six major research organizations in the Hampton Roads region.He also led the university's successful initiative to build the first 100 gigabit network link into the Hampton Roads region as part of a statewide research and education network. Jones' dedication to information technology infrastructure led him to become a Co-PI with Tamer Nadeem in writing and receiving a grant for "CC*IIE Networking Infrastructure: CHARMED-Campus High Availability Scientific Research Environment and DMZ" from the National Science Foundation in the amount of $350,000 from January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2016.His innovative and forward vision led to his collaboration and partnering with Mid Atlantic Broadband Communities Corporation to secure a BTOP grant of $12 million from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to build out open access fiber from central to southeastern Virginia. Before coming to Old Dominion, Jones was the Systems Engineer for the Large Business Services group at Bell Atlantic where he served as subject matter expert on the core Bell Atlantic products and service offerings; Internet Services, Customer Premise Equipment, Digital Data Service, Fiber Optics, Campus Cable Infrastructure, SONET, Video, ISDN and Fast Packet WAN services, successfully achieving all sales and customer service performance objectives, exceeding $20 million in annual sales. Prior to his employment with Bell Atlantic, Jones was the chief systems engineer for Virginia Department of Health where he served as lead for the state agency in planning, design and implementation of wide area network throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, consisting of 35 districts and 132 physical sites. As an innovative technology executive, he is known for his responsiveness as well as strengths in strategic planning, network design, project management, and exceptional leadership qualities. He has over 30 years' experience in creating and directing performance driven teams in public and private sector organizations including federal/military, state, public/private partnerships and higher education institutions. He is active in his community and served as board member of The Boys and Girls Club of Virginia Peninsula as well as Grafton-Tabb Youth Football League. "Deac" as he's commonly referred to at Ivy Baptist Church is a member of Board of Deacons, Pastor's Advisory Team and the Church Budget Committee. Jones is a 20 year Air Force veteran and is a graduate of Saint Leo College with a BA in Information Systems in 1989. In 1991 he received a Master of Business Administration from Golden Gate University in Information Systems. He and his wife, Shirley, live in Yorktown, Virginia and have two adult children, Tasha and Louverture, and six grandchildren.