Fall 2010 - Northern Virginia Technology Council

NVTC Members Appointed to State
Investment Boards
In August, the Center for Innovative Technology
(CIT) announced the appointments of two
NVTC Board members and one representative
of a member university to the Board of Directors
of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Investment Authority (IEIA). CIT also appointed
10 NVTC members to the Research
and Technology Investment Advisory Committee
(RTIAC), including six NVTC Board
members and representatives of member universities
and companies.
Gov. Bob McDonnell appointed NVTC
Chairman Emeritus David C. Lucien of DCL
Associates and Michael Rao of NVTC member
Virginia Commonwealth University to the
IEIA, and Virginia House of Delegates Speaker
William J. Howell (R-Stafford) appointed
NVTC Board Member Joseph Doherty of ACS
Government Solutions. They join the following
current NVTC and IEIA Board members:
NVTC Board Member and IEIA Vice Chair
Dr. Charles Steger of Virginia Tech; NVTC
Board Members Dr. Ray Johnson of Lockheed
Martin Corporation, Hooks Johnston of Valhalla
Partners and Dr. Alan Merten of George
Mason University; and former NVTC Board
Members Ted Cahall and Virginia Secretary
of Technology Jim Duffey. The IEIA oversees
CIT and promotes economic development by
attracting and retaining high technology jobs
and businesses in Virginia.
The RTIAC will assist the IEIA in making
awards from Virginia’s expanded Commonwealth
Research Commercialization Fund
(CRCF). Gov. McDonnell and the General Assembly
allocated $6 million to the CRCF this
year for the purpose of funding targeted areas
of research with commercial promise. Congratulations
to NVTC Board Member Robert
Kahn of Corporation for National Research
Initiatives and Equal Footing Foundation
Chairman Emeritus Daniel Gonzalez of Avison
Young, Thomas Kirchmaier of Board member
company General Dynamics IT, Robert Ocampo
of member company Grotech Ventures,
John Noftsinger Jr. of NVTC member James
Madison University and Thomas Skalak of
NVTC member University of Virginia for their
appointments to RTIAC.
Secretary of State Clinton Honors
Women Technology Professionals
from Middle East and North Africa at
TechWomen Luncheon
On July 6, NVTC President and CEO Bobbie
Kilberg attended a State Department luncheon
hosted by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton to honor 37 women in the IT sector
from the Middle East and North Africa and
their American mentors who participated in
the inaugural class of TechWomen, an initiative
that harnesses the power of technology and
international exchange as a means to empower
women and girls worldwide. Twenty-four
companies hosted the TechWomen class,
including NVTC members Adobe Systems,
AT&T, Cisco Systems, Google, Hewlett-
Packard, Oracle and Symantec.
p Center for New Futures’ Barbara Fittipaldi,
TechWomen participant Hania El Etry, Vital
Voices’ Mary MacPherson, Bobbie Kilberg,
State Department Acting Undersecretary for
Educational and Cultural Affairs Ann Stock,
TechWomen participant Rayya Abu Ghosh,
Embassy of Lebanon First Secretary Toni Frangie
and Symantec’s Patricia Bovan-Campbell.
During the luncheon, Secretary Clinton
announced the launch next year of TechGirls,
a new program that will bring teenage girls
from the Middle East and North Africa for a
month of educational activities in the United
States, to encourage innovation, promote
the spread of new technologies, and provide
support for women and girls to become leaders
in the technology field. Later this year, U.S.
mentors will travel to the Middle East and
North Africa region to conduct workshops
for women in the technology sector and
young girls who have expressed an interest in
pursuing a tech-based career.
NVTC Members
Participate in Financial
Services Forum
Roundtable Discussion
On July 13, NVTC Board members
and members participated
in a small, off-the-record
roundtable discussion with the
Financial Services Forum, a nonpartisan
financial and economic
policy organization. Participants
discussed how to create the jobs
of the 21 st century and promote
the formation of businesses that
will create those jobs, as well as
how to ensure American workers
develop the skills needed to
fill those jobs.
NVTC Board Members Rob
Quartel of NTELX and Marta Wilson
of Transformation Systems
Inc. (TSI), Ted Dunn of Board
member company Salient Federal
Solutions, Tom Weithman of
Board member company Center
for Innovative Technology, and
NVTC Members Sami Antrazi
of 4Wave, Mark Casey of CFN
Services, Craig Chambers of Cernium,
Brett Coffee of CSCI, Darren
Freeley of Pivotal IT, Brent
Gendleman of 5AM Solutions,
Sal Hundal of SoltecOne, Ashish
Kachru of Altruista Health, Steve
Markmann of Counterpoint
Consulting and Don Rainey of
Grotech Ventures joined NVTC
President and CEO Bobbie Kilberg,
Financial Services Forum
Executive Vice President John
Dearie and other representatives
of the Financial Services
Forum for the roundtable.
The Forum hopes to use the
information gathered at this
and similar discussions to help
develop policy recommendations
to promote job creation,
particularly among new and
small businesses.
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