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Advisory Committee

Judith Albers
COO
Excell Partners, Inc.
http://www.excellny.com/

Nasir Ali 
Upstate Venture Connect/Seed Capital Fund of CNY
http://www.upstateventureconnect.org/

Vasantha Amarakoon
Director, Center Advanced Ceramic Tech
CACT, Alfred University
http://www.alfred.edu/

John Boger
Intellectual Property Attorney
Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti
http://www.hrfmlaw.com/

William Bond
Director, IP Management Office
Rochester Institute of Technology
http://www.rit.edu/

Douglas L. Boyce
Small Business Dev. Center, Binghamton University
Director
www.binghamton.edu

Robert Buckley
UVANY
http://www.uvany.org/

John A. Cococcia
Partner
FA Technology Ventures
http://www.fatechventures.com/ 

Alfred D. Culliton
Chief Lending Officer
Erie County IDA
www.ecidany.com

Dennis M. DeLeo
General Partner
Trillium Group
http://www.trillium-group.com/

J. Monteith Estes, Esq.
Board of Directors
Excell Partners and UVANY
http://www.excellpartnersinc.com/

Jack Fraser 
Deputy Director, Office of Tech Transfer
University of Rochester
www.rochester.edu/ott

Ed Gaetano
Executive Director
Alliance for Manufacturing & Technology
http://www.amt-mep.org/

Robert J. Genco
Vice Provost and Director of STOR
University
at Buffalo
http://www.buffalo.edu/

Stephen Gilje
Associate VP for Research
Binghamton University
http://www.binghamton.edu/

Richard E. Honen, Esq.
Partner in Charge
Phillips Lytle LLP
http://www.phillipslytle.com/

Reed Hutchins
Managing Partner
Advantage Capital Partners
http://www.advantagecap.com/

Ronald Kudla
Executive Director
Office of Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer, and New Ventures, RPI
www.rpi.edu/dept/incubator/homepage/index.html

Jeffrey A. Lawrence
Executive Vice President
Center for Economic Growth
http://www.ceg.org/

Gina Lee-Glauser
Associate VP of Research & Director, CASE Center
Syracuse University
http://www.syr.edu/

Scott S. Macfarlane
Senior Technology Commercialization and Liaison Officer  
Cornell University
http://www.cornell.edu/


Franklin Madison
Technology Program Director
Industrial and Technology Assistance Corporation
http://www.itac.org/

Jerry Mahone
Executive Director, Venture Creations
Rochester Institute of Technology
http://www.rit.edu/

John A. McGowan
Consultant
Insyte Consulting
http://www.insyte-consulting.com/

 

 

Brian S. Model
Director
Stonehenge Growth Capital
http://www.stonehengecapital.com/

Jeong Oh
Director, Tech Transfer
Syracuse University
http://www.syr.edu/

Thomas G. Phillips, Sr.
Executive Director
Hudson Valley Technology Development Center, Inc.
http://www.hvtdc.org/

Charles Rancourt
Principal
Rancourt
Partnering 4 Innovation

Eugene K. Schuler, Jr.

Executive Director
Lighting Cultivator (LINC)

James Senall
President
High Tech Rochester
http://www.htr.org

Dr. Gregory C. Slack
Director of Research and Technology Transfer
Clarkson University, Division of Research
http://www.clarkson.edu/

Jonathan Stillman
Venture Partner
High Peaks Venture Partners
http://www.highpeaksventures.com/

Todd Tidgewell
Partner
Nixon Peabody
www.nixonpeabody.com 

Robert I. Trachtenberg
President and Chief Executive Officer
Central New York - TDO
http://www.cnytdo.org/

Michael H. Wacholder
Director
Rensselaer Technology Park
http://www.rpi.edu/

Theresa Walker
Asst VP of Research
University at Albany
http://www.albany.edu/

Roger J. Williams
From Research to Reality
rjw33@twcny.rr.com

Guven Yalcintas
VP & Director Tech Transfer
The Research Foundation of SUNY
www.rfsuny.org



 

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