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Job Titles:

• Advisor
• Director, University of California ( UC ) Space Health Program

Dr. Aenor Sawyer has more than two decades of experience in development and evaluation of health technologies, telemedicine and remote medical management. Dr. Sawyer conducts research and development in Space Health as the Director of the UC Space Health Program and previously served as the Chief Health Innovation Officer for the Translational Research Institute for Space Health, a NASA-funded program. Dr. Sawyer's experience in remote medical management includes 15 years as an Expedition Medic and Medical Advisor for extreme ocean rowers. She also conducts research with the Australian Antarctic Division on remote medical monitoring. She is Co-Founder/Co-Director of the UCSF Center for Advanced 3D+ Technologies, Co-Founder of the Center for Digital Health Innovation, and member of UCSF IT Governance Committee. Dr. Sawyer is Director of Faculty Engagement and Senior Strategic Alliance Manager in UCSF Innovation Ventures and an Invent Fund Advisor. External roles include External Advisory Board Member of the Scripps Translational Sciences Institute, International Advisor to Australia National Digital Health (ANDHealth), MCRI Health Technology Advisor, and former Associate Editor of Nature's Digital Medicine Journal. In her clinical role, as a UCSF Orthopedist, she is Founder/Director of the UCSF Skeletal Health Service where she combines her background as an Orthopaedic Surgeon, Physical Therapist and Exercise Physiologist enabling pediatric to geriatric patients to optimize bone health across the lifespan. Dr. Sawyer received her M.S. in Human Physiology and her M.D. from the University of California, Davis. Upon completion of her Orthopaedic Surgery residency at Stanford University, she completed fellowship training in Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine in the Harvard Orthopaedic Surgery program.

Job Titles:

• Chief Innovation Officer
• Chief Innovation Officer of CAI

Dr. Cody Locke is Chief Innovation Officer of CAI. He leads CAI's invention due diligence and portfolio analysis efforts. Cody led several initiatives for CAI, including the Global Health Innovation Challenge (I and II), Innovate Children's Health Challenge (I and II), Brain Race, SCALE Challenge, Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge, VABeachBio Innovation Challenge, NASA SPACE RACE and NIH Nanotechnology Startup Challenge in Cancer. Dr. Locke also orchestrates investor forums and pitch training for CAI's startups. Prior to working with CAI, he used genetics, microscopy and electrophysiology to investigate how the brain maintains normal function. Cody was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he completed a PhD in Neuroscience and was active in the Entrepreneurship Center. As a Howard Hughes Medical Institute-supported researcher, Cody established C. elegans as an animal model of epilepsy and created the world's epilepsy genetics database. Cody is passionate about applying scientific discoveries and entrepreneurial spirit to advance knowledge.

Job Titles:

• Member of the American Medical Association

Dr. Gil Price is Former President and CEO of NeuroBo Pharmaceuticals (NRBO), a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ. Dr. Price is a clinical physician trained in Internal Medicine with a long-standing interest in the study of adverse drug reactions, drug utilization, drug development and regulation. He is an accomplished senior level manager with over 26 years of diverse therapeutic drug development experience. His responsibilities have included pharmacovigilance, competitive intelligence, and clinical development. Prior to his current position, Dr. Price was CEO of Drug Safety Solutions. Dr. Price was also Director of Clinical Development for Oncology at Medlmmune, Inc. He previously worked in the CRO sector at ClinTrials and began his pharmaceutical career at Glaxo, Inc. in Research Triangle Park, NC, where he worked for nearly nine years on both the commercial and research sides of the company. Dr. Price is a member of the American Medical Association, the Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians, the American Society of Microbiology, the Association of Clinical Research Professionals, and the Drug Information Association.

Dr. Reginald Seeto, also known as Reg, is Former President and CEO at CareDx, Inc. Dr. Seeto was Head of Partnering & Strategy and Vice President of MedImmune, LLC, where he was responsible for MedImmune's Business Development and Strategy teams that deliver external partnership strategy including academic collaborations, licensing of innovative assets and technologies and government alliances/partnerships and for all therapy area strategies. Reg also served as Vice President of Global Strategic Marketing & Portfolio Management of MedImmune Limited, where he was responsible for providing strategic guidance on investment decisions and managing commercialization efforts for new products in various stages of development. In his previous position at Organon International, he served as the vice president of global marketing, fertility, immunology, oncology and vaccines. From 2011 to 2012, he was on an expatriate assignment as the President of AstraZeneca Thailand, where he was the first MedImmune Executive to participate in a talent exchange and development program with AstraZeneca. Prior to MedImmune, he served as Vice President of Global Marketing for Schering Plough/Organon Biosciences and Executive Director of US Marketing for Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals. In his career he was a Consultant at McKinsey & Company and started his career as a Medical Doctor involved in both clinical practice and research. He has also published first author publications in peer reviewed journals. Under his leadership, Thailand achieved its sales targets for the first time in 5 years and was awarded the RVP Award for Leadership for management of its worst floods in more than half a century. He serves as a Director of Biohealth Innovation. He served as an Executive Director of Marketing at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals and had served as an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company. Dr. Seeto holds both a Medical Degree and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Sydney, and practiced medicine in Australia early in his career.

Job Titles:

• Vice Chairman, Army Science Board, US Army

Leonard Braverman has a traceable lifetime career in the development, marketing and management of highly sophisticated government and commercial systems and often-secret advanced technologies. Steady growth in responsibilities has been through promotions by employers or direct recruitment by individuals personally familiar with his accomplishments. Leonard's reputation as a transformational leader has led to such diverse opportunities as advising the Secretary of Army about process improvements that could save billions of dollars annually and ranging to saving small organizations from closure by converting their obsolete business models and strategies. Leonard has personally developed and managed global sales and distributions channels throughout Europe and Southeast Asia as well as those focused primarily on the United States Department of Defense.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board
• Fellow of the UK

Mr. Donofrio joined IBM as a college co-op student in 1964 and worked on the memory technology for the legendary IBM System/360 mainframe computing system. Hired full-time in 1967, he spent the early part of his career in integrated circuit and chip development as a designer of logic and memory chips. He held numerous technical management and executive positions in several of IBM's product divisions and led many of the company's major development and manufacturing teams-from semiconductor and storage technologies, to microprocessors and personal computers, to IBM's entire family of servers. In 2008, Mr. Donofrio received the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration's Gold Medal, the first presented to a non-U.S. government employee. The same year, he received the National Security Agency's Director's Memento of Esteem for substantial contributions to the Department of Defense. He was selected one of BusinessWeek's 25 Top Innovation Champions in 2006. IndustryWeek named him Technology Leader of the Year in 2003. An advocate for advancing education, employment, and career opportunities for minorities and women, Mr. Donofrio served for many years on the board of directors for the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering and was board chair from 1997 to 2002. He was a long-time board member of INROADS, a non-profit organization focused on training minority youth for professional careers in business and industry. In 2005, the U.S. Department of Education appointed him to the Commission on the Future of Higher Education, a 20-member delegation of business and university leaders charged with developing a national strategy for post-secondary education to meet the needs of America's diverse population and workforce. He is a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation and board co-chair of the New York Hall of Science, the city's only hands-on science and technology center. A holder of seven U.S. technology patents, Mr. Donofrio is a fellow of the UK-based Royal Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the IEEE. In 2010, he was named a member of the U.S. Secretary of Energy Advisory Board. He is a member of the U.S.-based National Academy of Engineering; a member of the board of directors of the Bank of New York/Mellon; a member of the Republic of China's Advisory Board of Science and Technology; a member of the board of trustees of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; a member of the board of directors of Liberty Mutual; a member of the board of directors of AMD; and a member of the board of managers of Delphi Automotive LLP.

Job Titles:

• CEO
• Founder

Rosemarie Truman is an entrepreneur, growth strategist, distinguished corporate executive, angel investor and prolific startup catalyst. Currently, Rosemarie is the Founder and CEO of the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), a 501c3 non-profit which has been coined "Tinder for Startups" and "Shark Tank on Steroids." CAI's mission is to identify breakthrough inventions and maximize their commercial potential. Under Rosemarie's leadership, CAI has earned numerous awards and recognition from Health and Human Services, the White House, the Federal Laboratory Consortium and more. CAI has also been featured in the Washington Post, Wired, Huffington Post, Nature, and several other publications. Rosemarie's specialty is growth and investment strategy, having led growth strategies for 50 of the global Fortune 100 companies in over 15 countries. The strategies that Rosemarie led have resulted in $300+ billion in "net new" top line yearly revenue and 190+ new products on the market. At 19 years old, Rosemarie started her career as the first analyst hired by Goldman Sachs on the listed stock desk. Prior to launching her own firm, Rosemarie launched and led IBM's Innovation strategy practice globally. At IBM, she was awarded IBM's most laudable honor, the Golden Circle Award. In addition, she has also held notable leadership roles at Booz Allen Hamilton, Oracle, PRTM, and Marsh & McLennan, where she served as VP of global strategy for the largest brokerage firm in the world. Rosemarie's core competencies are in leadership, strategy consulting, investment banking and entrepreneurship. In her spare time, Rosemarie writes for Forbes and sits on company boards. Education: Triple Major: Mathematics + Industrial Engineering Operations Research + Economics Double Minor: French + Comparative Literature Theses: Econometrics + Software Engineering - Cloud Computing Mini MBA: Harvard and INSEAD

Thomas H. Brown has more than 30 years of experience in government, industry, and academia managerial positions in technology transfer, outreach, and technical training. He has specialized in intellectual property and technology transfer activities, as well as educational [K-16] outreach programs, fundraising and proposal preparation. His experience includes program management, collaborative agreement development, and technology development strategies implementation for small- to medium-sized organizations. He also has more than 18 years of business management and sales/marketing experience specializing in high technology-based organizations. For more than 20 years, Mr. Brown managed the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Regional Support Offices and was Deputy Director of the National Office. In this capacity, he has identified, initiated contact with, visited, and made presentations about the FLC to new federal research centers in the regions eligible for membership. He presented and disseminated FLC information at various activities held by non-member academic, industrial, and economic development organizations. He facilitated dialogue about federal technology transfer between member laboratories and private sector companies to encourage the commercialization of member laboratory technologies, establishment of Work for Others agreements, and the use of federal facilities through cooperative agreements. He has given presentations on doing business with the FLC at SBIR training sessions in the regions he supported. Prior to working in the federal sector, Mr. Brown was the Associate Director of the New Jersey Space Grant Consortium (NJSGC), a NASA-administered educational outreach organization. He worked closely with New Jersey research universities and affiliated educational institutions to expand opportunities for future scientists to understand and participate in NASA's aeronautics, space education, and workforce development programs. As Associate Director of a NASA Northeast Regional Technology Transfer Center, he established strong links between industrial and federal/university sectors, performed commercialization assessments of federal- and university-developed technologies, and marketed those technologies to private industry. As Vice President of Development for Knowledge Systems, Inc., a NASA technology-based startup company, Mr. Brown worked closely with the New Jersey Department of Education and NASA Headquarters education representatives to develop Internet-based mathematics and science education assessment products and worked with Virginia Commonwealth University, NASA Headquarters, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and NASA AMES Research Center to develop rural medical distance learning and telemedicine products. As the Northeast Regional Technology Transfer Center representative to the FLC, sitting on the education and legislative committees; received the Excellence in Technology Transfer Award from NASA Northeast Regional Technology Transfer Center in 1995 and the 1996 Federal Laboratory Consortium Regional Appreciation Award for activities furthering technology transfer in the Northeast. Mr. Brown is Past President of the NJ Academy of Science and currently serves on the NJ Regional Homeland Security Technology Committee, a group that supports the NJ Office of Homeland Security Preparedness.