Gary Alexander, President, Alexander Open Systems
James Baxendale, Executive Director, Technology Transfer & Intellectual Property, KU Center for Research, Inc., University of Kansas
Gerard Canavan, Chief Marketing Officer, Road9
Kevin Carr, Chief Operating Officer, Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation
Chi-Chao Chang, Ph.D., Director of Engineering, Search and Marketplace/Yahoo!
Jim Dahmen, General Manager, Columbus Telephone Co., Inc.
William Duncan, Ph.D., President, Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute
Marc Epard, Horizon Analog
Jeff Fuller, Engineering Projects Manager, Honeywell FM&T/KCP
Marshall Greenspan, Ph.D., Director of Technology Northrop Grumman Corporation Electronic Systems
Bennett Griffin, President, Griffin Technologies
David Hardin, Pd.D., Technical Director, Rockwell Collins, Inc.
James Isaacs, Ph.D., ITT Aerospace Optical Division
Timouthy Johnson, Vice President for Innovation & Technology, IDEA Center
Bob LaGarde, President & CEO, Lagarde Incorporated
John Louis, Director, Networking & Telecommunications Services, University of Kansas
Tom Lyon, Lyon About, LLC
Gary Mastin, Ph.D., Principal Engineer Special Systems, Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems & Solutions
Matt McClorey, President/CEO, Lawrence Regional Technology Center
Eric Mokole, Ph.D., Head, Surveillance Technology Branch, Radar Division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Wayne Morgan, Ph.D., Chief Operating Officer, Netchemia
Chris Murrish, Engineering Director, Cerner Corporation
David Nicol, Ph.D., Chief Financial Officer, Solutionary
Susan Norris, Communications Industry Advisor, Norport Technology Management Consulting
Wayne Parks, Col., Director, U.S. Army Info Ops and CNO-EW Proponents, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center
Stan Pierson, Project Engineer/Program Manager, Aeroflex Test Solutions
Brian Ruf, Chief Information Officer, Ruf Strategic Solutions
Toby Rush, President, Rush Tracking Systems
Stephen Schneider, Director of Technical Services, Sunflower Broadband
Michael Sobek, Chief Technology Officer, StoreFinancial
Deborah R. Stokes, Advanced Technology Investments, Strategic External Research, Nortel
John Strand, Axis Solutions
Kathy Suprenant, Ph.D., Professor & Chair Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas
Mike Swink, Partner, Tactical Blue Laboratories
Ben Vos, Vice President, Core Technologies, Sprint
Gerald White, Client Executive, EDS
George Wilson, Ph.D., Associate Vice Provost for Research, KU Center for Research, Inc., University of Kansas
ITTC held its annual IAB meeting on June 20, 2007. Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Richard Lariviere was the featured speaker and led a lively discussion on interactions between KU and industry. The Industry Advisory Board (IAB) helps guide ITTC’s research and development initiatives. The picture was taken inside Nichols Hall on the KU campus.
Front Row (Left to Right): John Strand, Matt McClorey, Terri Reintjes (representing Sprint), Keith Braman, James Baxendale, and Bennett Griffin
Second Row: Mike Swink, Tim Johnson, Wayne Morgan, Kathy Suprenant, Chris Murrish (representing Cerner), and Victor Frost
Third Row: George Wilson, Eric Mokole, Gerald White, Marshall Greenspan, Susan Norris, and Marc Epard
Fourth Row: Kevin Car and Tim Templeton (representing Sunflower Broadband)
Fifth Row: Gary Mastin and Gerard Canavan
Sixth Row: Paul Timler (representing Nortel), Jeff Fuller, and Mike Sobek
"Sprint has long had an interest in world class academic research, and is pleased to have had such a long and fruitful partnership with KU and the ITTC to meet our academic research needs," said Ben Vos, a vice president in Sprint’s Technology Development organization and ITTC board member since 2003. "The ITTC is very attuned to gathering input from their Board members – which represent a broad cross-section of industries and technologies – and responding to those inputs in a meaningful and impacting way. While Sprint’s research interests have been primarily focused on communications and networking systems, we pay close attention to the several other research fields in which the ITTC has expertise, and look for application within the ever changing telecommunications industry."
"I believe the ITTC is a very high-quality program that provides value to Kansas industry as well as industries outside the State of Kansas," said Gary Maston, who joined the Industry Advisory Board in 1998. "To their credit, the leadership of the center is very sensitive to the needs of organizations served by the ITTC. These leaders are constantly trying to align the research and development focus of the center with the requirements of industry and with the unique opportunities for business growth in the state of Kansas. My employer, Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems & Solutions, is an Arizona business, but we look to the state of Kansas and the ITTC for a very valuable and, unfortunately, increasingly rare commodity: U.S. citizen M.S. and Ph.D. graduates with backgrounds in radar remote sensing. The Radar and Remote Sensing Laboratory housed within the ITTC is a national asset with which we are proud to be associated. We want to offer our support so that KU and the state of Kansas can continue contributing to the economic and physical security of our nation through responsible, timely, and innovative research."
"ITTC is an excellent tool for communicating business need on the one side and current academic research on the other. It provides a true technology transfer mechanism for learning -- something both academe and business should be about," said Susan Norris, communications industry advisor for Norport Technology Management Consulting. "I see my role as offering a different perspective to the ITTC, to help the Center evaluate the business worth of new technology, and to offer suggestions based on my own management experience for the Center's consideration."
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