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UIDP Board
 Connie Armentrout, UIDP President
Monsanto Company
Connie is the Director of Licensing-University Relationships at Monsanto Company. She supports the Technology (discovery) segment of Monsanto by gaining access to university technologies through material transfers and option and license agreements. In addition, she is responsible for any transactions required to fund research at universities, both basic and applied, as well as agreements for university services. Connie also supports the Technology segment by negotiating consulting agreements with academics that participate in various Monsanto activities. Federal grants, CRADAs, material transfers, etc. are also part of Connie’s activities.
Prior to coming to Monsanto in September of 2001, Connie was the Director of Technology Development at the University of Oklahoma where she established a new office along with all of the relative processes and procedures. Connie was the Director of the University Patents and Licensing Office at the University of Missouri System from 1988-1999. She was the Industry Contract Liaison for the Office of Sponsored Research at the University of Missouri – Columbia for eight years prior to moving to the Patents and Licensing Office. Connie is a member of and has served in Regional and National Board positions for the Association of University Technology Managers and the National Council of Research Administrators. In addition, she is a member of the Licensing Executive Society.
Return to the Committee Roster |  Goran Matijasevic, UIDP Vice-President
University of California, Irvine
Goran is Executive Director of the Chief Executive Roundtable at the University of California, Irvine. In that capacity, he oversees and advances research collaborations and strategic initiatives associated with Roundtable programs, protocol and mission objectives. He also serves as UC Irvine's ambassador to the local and national business community, establishing partnerships and opportunities that serve to enhance leader-to-leader connections across all campus interdisciplinary fields. Prior to this position, he was director of research development at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine, and research coordinator of the Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility, where he worked on formation of new industry-university and academic collaborations.
Prior to UCI, he worked as a senior engineer at a telecommunications start-up company, and Director of Research and Ormet Technologies, a developer of electronic materials and technologies, where he managed multiple SBIR projects that led to several industry consortia projects, as well as a license agreement with a Fortune 100 company. He has four U.S. patents, three book chapters, and over 40 conference and journal publications. Goran has been serving as the UCI liaison to UIDP since 2007 and was also part of the Working Group of the Partnership Continuum committee. Goran is currently on the OCTANe (Orange County Technology Action Network) Tech and Biomedical Industry Leadership Councils and the boards of Southern California Biomedical Council, CleanTech OC, and TriTech SBDC. Goran received his PhD from UC Irvine in Electrical and Computer Engineering and his MBA from Pepperdine University.
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|  Jilda Garton, Immediate Past President
Georgia Tech
Jilda Garton joined Georgia Tech as the Associate Vice Provost for Research and General Manager of Georgia Tech Research Corporation on February 1, 1998. As General Manager, Ms. Garton is responsible for the financial and business affairs of GTRC, including licensing of the intellectual property created at Georgia Tech. The Office of Technology Licensing manages patenting and licensing activities for over 400 invention disclosures per year. As the Associate Vice Provost for Research, Ms. Garton directs activities of the Office of Sponsored Program and the Office of Research Compliance. Those responsibilities include identifying sponsored research opportunities, proposal processing, negotiation, award and post-award administration of contracts and subcontracts. The Office of Research Compliance supports the Institutional Review Board, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, the Institutional Biosafety and Committee, and export compliance for research.
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|  James Casey, University-At-Large (2013)
The University of Texas at San Antonio James J. Casey, Jr., M.A., M.P.A., J.D., is Executive Director, Office of Grants, Contracts, and Industrial Agreements, The University of Texas at San Antonio. In his current position he is responsible for developing, implementing and leading in all areas of grant, contract, industrial, and international agreements and research administration. He serves on the UTSA Commercialization Council and its Conflict of Interest Committee. His higher education career includes working at two Big Ten universities and several non-research institutions. Previously he practiced law in Wisconsin. Mr. Casey was part of the University-Industry Partnership Project from 2003-06, the project that led to the creation of the UIDP. The Sydney University Press, Queensland University of Technology Press, Dayton Law Review, and NCURA Magazine have published his book chapters and articles on the UIDP and UIPP. He represented the UIDP at a conference in Gold Coast, Australia, in July 2007. He is active in GUIRR, serving as co-Chair of the International Research Collaborations project. He authored the theme of the February 2011 GUIRR meeting and co-edited/contributed to the 2006 Living Studies publication. A member of NCURA since 1995, Mr. Casey is a current and past Board Member and is Senior Editor of NCURA Magazine. In 2009 he received the NCURA Distinguished Service Award. He is recognized for his international expertise, having lectured on research administration in Australia, China, Denmark, Ireland, Jordan, Kuwait, Portugal, Slovenia, and Tunisia. In 2007-08 he was a Visiting Professor of Leadership at Upper Iowa University, Hong Kong, China.
A member of the Wisconsin Bar since 1990, James was appointed to the State Bar of Wisconsin Communications Committee by State Bar President James C. Boll in July 2010. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the European Association of Research Managers and Administrators.
|  Sheryl Goldberg
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sheryl N. Goldberg is the Director of Research and Sponsored Programs at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She provides fiduciary and regulatory oversight for over $350M in annual extramural funding, in addition to overseeing the operations of the human and animal research committees. Sheryl was trained in the Harvard University hospital system in all aspects of research administration; she has held positions at public and private universities, including senior management positions at the University of Minnesota and Georgetown University.
Her expertise includes 20 years experience in research policy • Federal regulations and research, including biomedical research
• University/industry interface
• Protection of human research subjects and 46 CFR
• Research involving animals including OLAW regulations
• Conflict of interest
• Research integrity/scientific misconduct
• Research compliance – regulatory and financial
• Federal and non-governmental research grants and contracts (pre- and post-award)
• Clinical trials
• Grant acquisition and management including relevant OMB Circulars, FAR, etc
• Faculty development in grantseeking Sheryl was among the earliest volunteers for UIDP in 2005. In addition to serving on the UIDP Board, she currently co-chairs the Membership Committee, serves on the Program Committee, and with Connie Armentrout of Monsanto, organizes and moderates the negotiation training workshops. Sheryl earned her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis,and her MBA at the University of Missouri. She is a long-time member of the Association of University Technology Managers,the National Council of University Research Administrators, and the Society of Research Administrators. In 2006 she was a participant in the intensive AAAS Science and Technology
Policy Leadership Seminar.
Return to the Committee Roster |  Bruce M. Kramer, Ex-Officio
National Science Foundation
Bruce Kramer was born in New York City on July 23, 1949. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (S.B., S.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1979) and is a registered professional engineer in the District of Columbia.
Dr. Kramer co-founded and was Director of Engineering of Zoom Technologies, Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts, a NASDAQ company and leading producer of modems and wireless networking products marketed under the Zoom, Hayes, Practical Peripherals, and Global Village brands. He is the holder of three U.S. patents and has consulted to and conducted research projects on behalf of major industrial companies including General Electric, United Technologies, Boeing, Lockheed and Cincinnati Milacron. He served on the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at MIT from 1979 to 1985 and of George Washington University from 1985 to 1995. Since 1991, he has been at the National Science Foundation, as Program Director for Materials Processing and Manufacturing, Director of the Division of Design, Manufacture and Industrial Innovation, and Director of the Division of Engineering Education and Centers. He is currently Senior Advisor for Engineering in the Division of Engineering Education and Centers. Dr. Kramer studied Japanese manufacturing industries as a visiting researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering for Production at the University of Tokyo in 1989. During the 1998-99 academic year, he taught product development and manufacturing at the University of California, Berkeley as a visiting scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Professor Kramer was conferred the rank of Fellow of the School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo in 2007. He has also been awarded the F.W. Taylor Medal of the International Institution for Production Engineering Research, the Blackall Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the R.F. Bunshah Medal of the International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings, all in recognition of outstanding contributions to the manufacturing research literature. In 1996, he received the Distinguished Service Award, the highest honorary award granted by the National Science Foundation. He is a fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
Return to the Committee Roster |  Steven McKnight, Ex-Officio
National Science Foundation
*Biography and photo coming soon*
Return to the Committee Roster |  Tom Mildenhall, Industry-At-Large (2013)
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Tom Mildenhall is the Technology Scout for Kimberly-Clark’s nonwovens division. He encourages and facilitates researchers in nonwovens working with external providers of technology. Prior to this open innovation assignment Tom was a research manager and has managed product, material, and process development groups in both business groups and corporate research. At the beginning of his career he was a research engineer at DuPont in Lycra® spandex research. He received a BS and PhD in Chemical Engineering at Brigham Young University. In addition to UIDP Tom is active in Industrial Research Institute’s External Technology Network, the Nonwovens Cooperative Research Center at NC State University and the Management Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He also serves on industrial advisory boards for chemical engineering departments at BYU and Vanderbilt. Tom enjoys spending time with his family (six children and seventeen grandchildren) hiking, vegetable gardening, keeping his home computer network running and doing volunteer work with his church and the Boy Scouts of America. Return to the Committee Roster |  Barbara Mittleman, Ex-Officio
National Institutes of Health
Dr. Barbara B. Mittleman is the Director of the NIH Public-Private Partnership Program of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). In this capacity she works to develop a wide range of partnerships between the NIH and industry, foundations, academic institutions, and other entities both in the U.S. and abroad. Examples of recently established partnerships are GAIN (Genetic Association Information Network - a project using whole genome scanning approaches to identify genetic markers of common diseases) and The Biomarkers Consortium. Dr. Mittleman is an internist and rheumatologist and trained at the University of Pittsburgh for medical school, residency and fellowship. She came to the NIH in 1991 to pursue post-doctoral laboratory research training in cellular immunology and autoimmunity. While working at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, she was instrumental in the establishment of a community-based rheumatology research clinic to study health disparities in the rheumatic diseases, and served as the principal investigator from the clinic’s inception in 2001 to 2007. Her current research interests include biomarkers, particularly for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), health disparities, and bioethics.
Return to the Committee Roster |  Deborah Radasch
Boeing
Deborah Radasch is the Director for Strategic Universities and Special Initiatives & Experimentation for Boeing Research and Technology organization. In addition, Debbie currently serves as the functional systems engineering lead for Engineering Operations & Technology and active in the Industrial Research Institute. Radasch’s background is diverse, having leadership roles in engineering, technology, business development, manufacturing and supplier management for both development and production programs. She received her Ph.D. in decision sciences and finance from St. Louis University, and her M.S. and B.S. degrees in operations research and decision sciences from Pennsylvania State University.
Active in the community, Debbie has been recognized for her community efforts through Boeing's William Allen Award, the Jaycees Young Outstanding St. Louisan Award, National Hearts of Gold Award, and National CASA Award. Return to the Committee Roster |  Susan Sauer Sloan, Ex-Officio
The National Academies/GUIRR
Susan Sauer Sloan (Director, Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable) joined The National Academies on May 27, 2008 as Director of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR). Before assuming the role, Ms. Sloan served a six-month appointment as Executive in Residence at the Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE) of the National Academy of Engineering and, for the six years prior, as Chief Executive Officer of the Global Wireless Education Consortium (GWEC), a university-industry membership organization committed to the development and incorporation of current wireless technology curricula in academic institutions worldwide. Earlier in her career, Ms. Sloan worked as Corporate/Foundation Relations Consultant to the National Science Foundation’s Division of Undergraduate Education, as Associate Director of the Master of Health Science (MHS) in Health Policy program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, as Director of Communications for Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and as Senior Program Associate for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Sloan got her start in Washington, DC, working as a staff assistant to Representative Timothy E. Wirth (D-CO), U.S. House of Representatives.
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Rebecca Silveston-Keith
Lexmark
Dr. Rebecca Silveston-Keith has worked in industrial research, development, manufacturing and management for twenty-five years across different industries, countries and languages. She received a PhD in Chemical Engineering/Physical Chemistry from Uppsala University while working at the Institute for Surface Chemistry in Sweden. This was followed by work at the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, in Mexico City, L’Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique in Quebec, Westvaco and Sawgrass Technologies in South Carolina and then Lexmark International in Kentucky.
Throughout her career, she has led research in chemical thermodynamics, activated carbon, digital printing materials (toner, ink, photo paper), and imaging science. She holds sixteen patent application and seven journals articles in these fields. With many new environments and technologies to master, she quickly realized the benefits of leveraging experts from Universities and other external entities. Rebecca couples a current working knowledge of manufacturing engineering processes, its demands and challenges, with an ability to work across boundaries and cultures to drive successful collaboration from the industrial perspective in her role as R&D sponsored research coordinator at Lexmark.
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Jeff Southerton
Pfizer
Jeff Southerton began his career in the pharmaceutical industry in 1988 as a cardiac electro physiologist at Syntex, in Edinburgh. Prior to this he had studied pharmacology at the University of Manchester, gaining his PhD through the study of smooth muscle potassium channels. He joined Pfizer’s Discovery Biology group (in Sandwich, England) in 1991 and after working on a number of preclinical cardiovascular projects joined Pfizer’s Strategic Alliances group in 1995 – where he was responsible for a number of deals on behalf of Pfizer’s Discovery Research organization. Between May 2002 and February 2006 he was responsible for building and leading Pfizer’s Strategic Alliances group in La Jolla. In 2006 he became responsible for Pfizer’s Therapeutic Area Strategic Alliances globally. Since February 2008, he has led a team within Pfizer’s Worldwide Business Development organization with responsibility for Biotherapeutic Technology Alliances. His group works closely with Pfizer R&D colleagues to identify potential collaborative opportunities with academic groups and biotechnology companies worldwide; negotiate the terms of such interactions; manage ongoing business aspects; and ensure that collaboration goals are met.
Return to the Committee Roster |  Lou Witkin
Hewlett-Packard
Lou Witkin has been with Hewlett-Packard for over 35 years. During the first 20 years of his career, Lou was a project manager in various HP business units responsible for hardware and software development for a variety of products, such as intelligent data terminals and image scanners.During the past 15 years, Lou has worked in HP’s University Relations as a program manager. He has developed several programs that have resulted in successful long-term collaborations between HP’s businesses and universities throughout the world, as well as encouraging curriculum advances in engineering disciplines.Lou is currently a technology program manager in University Relations, and has developed worldwide programs with universities in Digital Publishing. Lou is also focusing on factors that contribute to building long-term strategic partnerships with universities.
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