Contact Us

Contact our team for the following:

Sponsorship Information
Griff Kundahl
griff@nanobiotech.org
720-219-3896

Speaker Recruitment & Programming
Vincent Caprio
vincent@nanobca.org
203-733-1949

Speaker Onsite Logistics
Alisa Kronshage
alisa@nanobusiness.org
312-224-8319

North Carolina Location Venue Information
Griffith Kundahl 
griff@nanobiotech.org  

Conference Chairmen
Griffith Kundahl, Executive Director, COIN
griff@nanobiotech.org

John Hardin, Executive Director, Office of Science & Technology, North Carolina Department of Commerce
jhardin@nccommerce.com

Vincent Caprio, Executive Director, NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
vincent@nanobca.org 

2013 Keynotes & Speakers
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For a list of the 2012 Speakers with Bios, click here.

Jim Phillips
Chairman /CEO
NanoMech		 Robert Burns
Senior Vice President
Harris & Harris Group, Inc 		 Scott Rickert
President
Co-Founder & CEO
Prof. David L. 
Carroll, Ph.D.
Director, Nanotechnology & Molecular Materials
Wake Forest University		 Scott Livingston
Chairman & CEO
Livingston Securities		 Dr. Mihail C. Roco
Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology, National Science Foundation
   
Travis Earles
Nanotech Initiatives, Lockheed Martin		 Anthony Atala, M.D.
Director, Professor and Chair
Wake Forest University		 Governor George Allen
David N. Himebaugh, COO & President, North America, Blue Nano Inc Vincent Caprio
Exec. Director
NanoBusiness 
Commercialization 
Association		 Griffith A.
Kundahl
Exec. Director
COIN
 
Jack B. Hicks
Partner, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP		 Lynn L. 
Bergeson
Bergeson & 
Campbell P.C.		 John Hardin
Exec. Director
Science &
Technology
NC Dept. Commerce 
 
Timothy M. Persons, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist
United States Government
Accountability Office 		 Benjamin S. Harrison, PhD, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine Dr Ginger Rothrock
Program Manager, 
Emerging Technologies, 
RTI International
Dr. Gilberto M. 
(Ybet) Villacorta
Partner
Foley & Lardner LLP		 Paul S. Clayson
President & CEO
HzO		 Lifeng Zhang, Ph.D.
Asst Prof. of Nanoengineering, Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering
   
Dr. Sunit Talapatra 
Senior Counsel
Foley & Lardner LLP		 Manish Mehta, Ph.D., Executive Director, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) Stephen R. Waite
Managing Partner
SoundView Technology Group 
  Alan Rae  
Keith Blakely
CEO
The InVentures Group		 Alan Rae
B.Sc., Ph.D., M.B.A.
M.R.S.C. C.Chem., 
CEO, NanoMaterials 
Innovation Center		 Dr. Sumit Gangwal
VP Research & Development
Xanofi
     
Prof. Jagannathan Sankar, Ph.D.
Distinguished Univ. Prof.; White House Millennium Researcher, Dir. NSF-ERC & CAMSS, NCA & TSU		 James G. Ryan, Ph.D.
Founding Dean, Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering		 Nan Marie Jokerst
Distinguisted Prof., Electrical & Computer Engineering
Duke University
     
Dr. Behnam Pourdeyhimi
Executive Director, Nonwovens Institute		 Joseph Piché CEO & Founder, Eikos Gregory D. Cooper, CTO/Founder, Pixelligent Technologies
     
Douglas DuFaux
CTO, Alfie Technology Corp.		 Johnny Rodrigues
Chief Commercialization Officer, Xemerge		 Michael Sullivan
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP
     
Alexander (Sasha) V.
Kabanov, Ph.D., Dr.Sc.,
Director, UNC Center
for Nanotechnology		 Richard Czerw, Ph.D.
CEO, NanoTechLabs, Inc.		 Roger Cubicciotti, Ph.D.
President/CEO & Science
Advisor, NanoMedica LLC
     
Harry Bushong, President & Co-founder, nanoTox, Inc. Daniel Joseph Christian Herr, Ph.D., Professor & Nanoscience Department Chair, Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering Russell L. Jones MBA, Summers Thompson Lowry, Inc.
     
Dr. Michele Ostraat, Senior Director, Center for Aerosol & Nanomaterials Engineering, RTI International Dr. Jeffrey Morse, Managing Director, National Nanomanufacturing Network Ken Russell, Ph.D., Director, Enterprise Strategy, CISCO
     
Allen Gelwick, Executive Vice President, Lockton Companies Edward Olivares, Federal Business Group Scott Bryant, President, Nano-Network of New Mexico
     
Peter Seoane, NSF Engineering Research Center for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials, North Carolina A&T State University Dr. Veena Misra, Director, NSF ERC ASSIST Nanosystems Center, NCSU Fern O'Brian
Partner
Thompson Hine LLP
      
Steve Peterson, CEO, Trana Discovery Edward Miles, Chief Financial Officer – Carolina Seed Investors W. Bennett Love, VP, Co-founder, Synereca Pharmaceuticals