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

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

John A. Cococcia
Partner
FA Technology Ventures
www.fatechventures.com  

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

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

J. Monteith Estes, Esq.
Partner
Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel, LLP
www.jaeckle.com

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

William Frezza
General Partner
Adams Capital Management, Inc.
www.acm.com

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

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

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

Charles R. Haviland, Jr.
Partner
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna
www.woh.com

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

Steven M. Jacques, CPA
Partner
PriceWaterHouseCoopers
www.pwcglobal.com

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

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

Scott S. Macfarlane
TEC Manager
Cornell University
www.cornell.edu


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

Joseph L. Magno
Managing Director
JLM Enterprises LLC

Dr. Varda N. Main
Rochester Institute of Technology
Director, Technology Licensing Office
www.rit.edu

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

 

Brian S. Model
Director
Stonehenge Growth Capital
www.stonehengecapital.com

Scott Murphy
Managing Director
Advantage Capital Partners
www.advantagecap.com

Jeong Oh
Associate Director, Tech Transfer
Syracuse University
www.syr.edu

David A. Pascarella, Esq.
Associate
Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.
www.hrfmlaw.com

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

Charles Rancourt
Director, Patents & Licensing
Office of Technology Commercialization
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
www.eship.rpi.edu

Eugene K. Schuler, Jr.
Schuler Consulting

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

Dirk E. Sonneborn
VP, Development and MarketingCentral New York Community Foundation
www.cnycf.org

Jonathan Stillman
Venture Partner
High Peaks Venture Partners
www.highpeaksventures.com

Todd Tidgewell
Partner
Nixon Peabody
www.nixonpeabody.com 

Robert I. Trachtenberg
President and Chief Executive Officer
Central New York - TDO
www.syr.edu

Michael H. Wacholder
Director
Rensselaer Technology Park
www.rpi.edu  

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

Paul Wetenhall
President
High Tech Rochester, Inc.
www.htr.org

Jeffrey E. Wetherbee
Managing General Partner
Glenmont Partners
www.glenmontpartners.com

Roger J. Williams
Retired Director of Tech Transfer
Cornell University
www.cornell.edu

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


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