AMTECH - Key Persons
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- Senior Manager, Northrop Grumman Corporation
"The groundbreaking work you did in developing the Joint Sponsored Research Agreement and your thoughtful stewardship of the agreement has been a significant contributor to the success of the ERAST project. While the technical accomplishments of the project are well documented and highly publicized, the cooperative environment which you and your team helped facilitate is recognized as the key enabler of that technical success."
Dr. Doug Engelbart, Doug Engelbart Institute
"You think strategically and have the magic touch for getting people to align around a plan. You are as intuitive as you are determined. I've seen you structure complex partnerships and subdue difficult players."
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- Program Director, Fundamental Aeronautics, NASA Headquarters
"Your personal vision and leadership skills were critical to moving six competitors to join together."
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- President, General Atomics - ASI ( Makers of the Predator Drone )
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- Deputy Dir., NASA Armstrong Advanced Planning and Partnership Office
CEO Karen Risa Robbins says, "if personal computing and networking defined the past two decades, the next decade will be about new forms of coalitions and the tools that support collaboration."
​ROBBINS has been called "a lightening rod for collaboration."
The AmTech Center for Collaboration has gained a national reputation for helping a wide range of clients succeed at collaborative endeavors and received multiple awards for its groundbreaking work in the area of public-private partnerships. Under the direction of Co-Founder and CEO Karen Risa Robbins, AmTech has been in the business of forming, managing, and evolving the art of transformative collaborations since it started in Silicon Valley in 1989 with a grant from NASA. (Widely known as AmTech, it was incorporated under the name American Technology Alliances, Inc.)
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- Director, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
"I learned so much from you. Your passion and skill as a collaborator is unmatched."
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- Founder, Southeast Asian Leadership Initiative
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- Curatorial Director, Computer History Museum
"The guidance and support you gave to SALI during the formative phase was invaluable."