STARTUP NAVIGATOR - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director of Marketing and Communications
- Director of Marketing and Communications for the Invent Penn State
Ashley Palmer is the director of marketing and communications for the Invent Penn State initiative. She assists with strategic planning for Invent Penn State and develops and promotes numerous programs, tools and resources for entrepreneurs and innovators across the Penn State system.
Job Titles:
- Associate Vice President for Research and Director of the Office for Entrepreneurship
James Delattre serves as Associate Vice President for Research and Director of the Office for Entrepreneurship and Commercialization where he leads overall program development for the Invent Penn State initiative and leads commercialization strategy, resources and support for Penn State's startup pipeline and innovation space program.
Prior to joining Penn State, Dr. Delattre served as Vice President of Global Marketing at NanoHorizons, Inc., a Penn State nanomaterials manufacturing startup. He joined the research team at NanoHorizons as Product Development Manager in 2005 after working in the Low-k Dielectrics Group at Novellus Systems, Inc. in Santa Clara, California.
Dr. Delattre earned his PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on processes for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from semiconductor manufacturing and the development of new synthetic techniques for the solid state. He completed postdoctoral work investigating the plasma treatment of polymers at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche at the University of Bari, Italy. He is the author of over a dozen peer reviewed scientific articles and holds several patents.
Dr. Delattre received his BS with honors in Chemistry from Penn State, where he studied inorganic, high-pressure chemistry and Russian language.
Job Titles:
- Penn State President Emeritus
Job Titles:
- Penn State Senior Vice President for Research