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UIDP Board
R. Timothy Mulcahy, President
Vice President for Research, University of Minnesota
Jerry Duncan, Vice-President
Manager, University R&D Relations, Deere & Company (John Deere)
Susan Butts, Immediate Past President
Senior Director of External Technology, Dow Chemical Company
Connie Armentrout
Director of Licensing-University Relationships, Monsanto Company
Charles Concannon
Manager, University R&D Collaboration, Boeing Company
Sheryl Goldberg
Director, Research and Sponsored Programs, Rutgers, The State University of NJ
Robert Gruetzmacher
Director of Technology Commercialization, DuPont's Center for Collaborative Research and Education
Ravi Iyer
Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Illinois – Urbana – Champaign
Bruce Kramer
Senior Advisor for Engineering, Division of Engineering Education, National Science Foundation
Lesa Mitchell
Vice President of Advancing Innovation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Roberto Peccei
Vice Chancellor for Research, University of California, Los Angeles
Jeff Southerton
Executive Director-Worldwide Business Development, Pfizer Global R&D
Robert Starbuck, UIDP Treasurer
Wyeth Research, Retired
Lou Witkin
Director, Strategic Government Collaborations, Hewlett Packard
Marianne Rinaldo Woods
Senior Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio
 R. Timothy Mulcahy, President
Dr. Mulcahy was appointed Vice President for Research at the University of Minnesota on February 1, 2005. As Vice President for Research, he is responsible for the oversight and administration of an externally-funded research program of nearly $600 million on the five campuses of the University of Minnesota system. He is also responsible for technology commercialization activities at the University and for the administration of regulatory offices associated with research. He was responsible for the establishment of the University’s Academic and Corporate Relations Center which serves as a “Front Door” to the University and which has as one of its goals the nurturing of long-term partnerships with the University’s corporate partners, government agencies and foundations. Dr. Mulcahy earned his Bachelors degree in Biology from the University of Rochester in 1973 and his doctorate in Pathology and Radiological Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1979. In 1981 he joined the Department of Pathology at the University of Rochester. In 1985 he was recruited to the University of Wisconsin and became a full Professor in 1991. At Wisconsin, he served as Associate Dean for the Biological Sciences (1996-2005) and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Policy (2002-2005). As Associate Vice Chancellor he was responsible for coordinating research policy development and implementation and with overseeing compliance with federal research regulations. Dr. Mulcahy’s research has focused on cancer biology, spanning the spectrum from bench research to clinical trials. 
Jerry Duncan, Vice President
Jerry Duncan is the Manager of University R&D Relations at the John Deere Moline Technology Innovation Center at the Deere & Company world headquarters in Moline, IL. He is responsible for developing and sustaining strategic university relationships supporting Deere’s global enterprise technology innovation needs. He also leads research personnel in advancing Deere capabilities in user-interface design and immersive collaboration technologies. He received a PhD in Industrial Engineering, specializing in Bioenvironmental Engineering, Human Factors and Ergonomics from Kansas State University in 1975. Before joining Deere, Dr. Duncan served on faculties at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Texas A&M University. When he joined Deere, he established an off-road vehicle simulator and human factors laboratory to support John Deere product design programs. He is a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, serves on the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Professional Ergonomics, and is a past president of the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics.
Susan Butts, UIDP Immediate Past President
Susan Butts, Ph.D., is the Senior Director of External Technology at The Dow Chemical Company. In this capacity she is responsible for Dow’s sponsored research programs at over 150 universities, institutes, and national laboratories worldwide and also for Dow’s contract research activities with US and European government agencies. She also holds the position of Global Staffing Leader for R&D, with responsibility for recruiting and hiring programs. Susan Butts is a Dow representative to the Council for Chemical Research, the American Chemical Society’s Committee on Corporation Associates, and the External Technology Director’s Network of the Industrial Research Institute (IRI); a member of the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA), the Association of University Technology Managers, the Society of Research Administrators, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Sigma Xi; and a governing board member for the Council for Chemical Research and the Alliance for Science and Technology Research in America (ASTRA).
Connie Armentrout
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.
 Chuck Concannon
Chuck Concannon is currently the Senior Manager, University R&D Collaboration, with The Boeing Company’s Engineering, Operations & Technology organization. A Boeing employee since 1989, Chuck’s responsibilities include leading the development of new business agreements with selected academic institutions, exploring new models for interacting with university research, supporting executive contacts with key universities, and helping Boeing become more involved with universities outside of the United States. Chuck is part of the Global Research and Development Strategy team and also is the Boeing R&D representative on the Higher Education Integration Board and Technical Excellence Strategy Team. In addition, he is leading an enterprise-wide process to ensure that new approaches in working with university researchers align with Boeing’s technology strategy.
Prior to this position, Chuck was a manager of Industrial Participation at Integrated Defense Systems in Philadelphia where he developed and led numerous domestic and international project teams involving universities, industry and research and development institutes. Prior to Boeing, Chuck worked as an airport operations manager with both the Connecticut and Maryland Departments of Transportation. He holds an MBA from St. Joseph’s University, and a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering Management from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
 Sheryl Goldberg 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.  Robert Gruetzmacher
Dr. Gruetzmacher is the Director of Technology Commercialization in DuPont's Center for CollaborativeResearch and Education. During his career with DuPont, hisresponsibilities have included research, development, manufacturing, and marketing in the photopolymer imagingproducts and medical diagnostic businesses. He managed DuPont’s infectious disease diagnostics research group in Boston, co-managed a food quality assurance business venture, and helped lead development of DuPont's technology transfer group and intellectual assets business. In his current role his responsibilities include managing the unrestricted grants program, leading DuPont’s efforts to find appropriate university partners for sponsored and collaborative research, negotiating agreements and seeks new business opportunities with the academic setting including startups, and advises company-wide on licensing-related matters. Most recently, he has been asked to take a lead in facilitating corporate-wide implementation of an “open innovation” R&D model.
Dr. Gruetzmacher holds a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University, and was the recipient of a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship. He has served as a trustee of the Licensing Executives Society and participates in several international forums dealing with topics such as university/company transactions, knowledge management, and the management and valuation of intellectual assets. He has authored publications and is invited frequently to gives talks on these topics. He is a certified licensing Professional and a member of the Licensing Executives Society, the American Chemical Society, the Association of University Technology
Managers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is on the industrial advisory boards of the Larta Institute in Los Angeles, the Larta/USDA Commercialization Assistance Program and the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. He was recently elected to the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP) board of directors.
 Ravi Iyer
Ravishankar K. Iyer is Interim Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is a George and Ann Fisher Distinguished Professor of Engineering. He holds appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science and his previous post was the Director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) at Illinois. Professor Iyer also serves as Co-Director of Illinois’ Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing at CSL and Chief Scientist at the Information Trust Institute.
Iyer’s research interests are in the area of dependable and secure systems. He has been responsible for major advances in the design and validation of dependable computing systems. He currently leads the TRUSTED ILLIAC project at Illinois, which is developing application-aware adaptive architectures for supporting a wide range of dependability and security requirements in heterogeneous environments. Professor Iyer has a broad outreach to industry and government, both nationally and internationally, having worked with several major vendors. Professor Iyer is a Fellow the AAAS, the IEEE and the ACM. He has received several awards including the Humboldt Foundation Senior Distinguished Scientist Award for excellence in research and teaching, the AIAA Information Systems Award and Medal for “fundamental and pioneering contributions towards the design, evaluation, and validation of dependable aerospace computing systems,” and the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award “for fundamental contributions to measurement, evaluation, and
design of reliable computing systems.”  Bruce M. Kramer
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.
Lesa Mitchell
Lesa Mitchell is a vice president with the Kauffman Foundation. She is responsible for leading the Foundation’s initiatives to advance innovations. Mitchell joined the Foundation in 2003.
She has been responsible for the Foundation’s frontier work in understanding the policy levers that influence the advancement of innovation from universities into the commercial market. Under Mitchell’s leadership, the Foundation is identifying critical research opportunities, defining and codifying alternative commercialization pathways, and identifying new models to foster innovation. Mitchell was instrumental in the founding of the Kauffman Innovation Network and the iBridge Network, a founding sponsor of the National Academy-based University–Industry Partnership, and leader in the replication of innovator-based mentor programs at universities across the country. In addition, Mitchell serves on the boards of Gazelle Growth in Denmark and the University of Kansas Research Institute. Prior to joining Kauffman, Mitchell’s professional background included consulting for global pharmaceutical clients such as Takeda, Eli Lilly and Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium. She spent twenty years of her career in global executive roles at Aventis, Quintiles, and Marion Laboratories.
 Roberto D. Peccei
Roberto Peccei is Vice Chancellor for Research at UCLA, a position he has held since October, 2000. He is a particle theorist whose principal interests lie in the area of electroweak interactions and in the interface between particle physics and cosmology.
Peccei was born in Italy, completed his secondary school in Argentina, and came to the United States in 1958 to pursue his university studies in physics. He obtained a B.S. from MIT in 1962, and M.S. from NYU in 1964 and a Ph.D. from MIT in 1969. After a brief period of postdoctoral work at the University of Washington, he joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1971. In 1978, he returned to Europe as a staff member of the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany. He joined the Deutsches Elektron Synchrotron (DESY) Laboratory in Hamburg, Germany, as the Head of the Theoretical Group in 1984. He returned to the United States in 1989, joining the faculty of the Department of Physics at UCLA. Soon thereafter, he became Chair of the Department, a position he held until becoming Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences of the College of Letters and Sciences in November, 1993. Peccei was the Schroedinger Professor at the University of Vienna in 1983, the Boris Jacobsohn Lecturer at the University of Washington in 1986, the Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer at UCLA and the Emilio Segre Professor at the University of Tel Aviv in 1992, and delivered the first Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture in Pakistan in 1997. He has served on numerous advisory boards both in Europe and the United States in the last 25 years. He is a member of the Club of Rome and is the President of the Fondazione Aurelio Peccei. He presently serves on the Board of the California Biomedical Association, is the Chair of the governing Board of the California NanoSystems Institute and is a member of the Visiting Committee for the Department of Physics at MIT. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Physics in the United Kingdom.
 Jeff Southerton
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.
 Robert R. Starbuck, Ph.D.
Dr. Starbuck retired in 2008 after 32 years in the pharmaceutical industry. He ended his career as the Assistant Vice President of Clinical Development, Special Projects at Wyeth Research in Collegeville, PA. His responsibilities while at Wyeth also included heading the biostatistics, clinical programming, clinical data management, and field monitoring functions. Dr. Starbuck previously headed the clinical data management, biostatistics, and medical writing functions at Warner Lambert/Parke Davis in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the clinical statistics group at Burroughs Wellcome in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Dr. Starbuck is an active member of the American Statistical Association. He chaired the Biopharmaceutical Section of the ASA in 1994, chaired the Corporate Member Representatives of the ASA from 1992 through 1996, and chaired the Deming Lectureship Committee in 1998. Since 1994 he has played a leading role in the Statistics Partnerships among Academe, Industry, & Government (SPAIG) initiative sponsored by the American Statistical Association. He is also an active member of the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership, and serves on the UIDP Finance Committee and is Treasurer of the UIDP. Dr. Starbuck received a B.S. in Mathematics from Miami University and a Masters and Ph.D. in Statistics from North Carolina State University, and is an ASA Fellow.
 Lou Witkin
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.
 Marianne Rinaldo Woods
Marianne Rinaldo Woods, Ph.D., J.D., is the Senior Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio and faculty in the College of Public Policy. In her current position she oversees all aspects of the research administration.
Formerly Associate Vice President of Research at The University of Alabama, Dr. Woods had oversight of all aspects of research administration, including IRB, IACUC, COI, MIS compliance, pre-award, post-award and accounting research administration, technology transfer, and the Bama Technology Incubator. She is also responsible for development and implementation of university-wide policies and procedures ranging from export controls to intellectual property. In 2006, Dr. Woods and her team of licensing professionals at The University of Alabama received the Licensing Executive Society’s National Deal of Distinction Award.
Dr. Woods is a Board Member on the Council on Governmental Relations (COGR) and serves as a member of the COGR Contract and Intellectual Property Committee. She is also a member of the Federal Demonstration Partnership and past board member of the Biotechnology Association of Alabama; the Texas Society for Biomedical Research; Past President of the Texas Technology Transfer Association (T3A); and, the Alabama State EPSCoR Steering Committee. Dr. Woods is a founding member of the University of Texas System Technology Transfer Management Council; and, the Texas Research Administration Management Council (TRAM). Dr. Woods has also served on the National Council of University Research Administrator’s (NCURA) Board of Directors and NCURA’s National Professional Development Committee and National Membership Committee. She is a past recipient of the NCURA’s National Distinguished Service Award and NCURA’s Region V, Distinguished Service Award. She is past co-editor of the NCURA Newsletter, and the former lead faculty on the NCURA Export Controls Seminar Series and the NCURA Fundamentals Program. Dr. Woods has also served as a keynote speaker, moderator, panelist and workshop faculty at numerous international, national, and regional professional meetings.  Anthony M. Boccanfuso, UIDP Executive Director
Anthony M. Boccanfuso was selected to serve as the inaugural Executive Director for the University Industry Demonstration Partnership. He holds a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of South Carolina and earned his B.S. in Political Science and Chemistry from Furman University. Dr. Boccanfuso began his professional career as a Science Policy Fellow at the American Chemical Society where he worked within the society's government relations and science policy division. Before taking on this new position, Dr. Boccanfuso was Director for Research and Economic Development at the University of South Carolina and currently retains the position of Senior Director for Strategic Alliances within the College of Engineering and Computing. Dr. Boccanfuso has had a distinguished career in the research management and science policy arenas and has held a variety of positions at the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and PricewaterhouseCoopers as well as several universities. He currently serves on several boards including the National Hydrogen Association, South Carolina BIO and the Hydrogen Education Foundation for which he is the current chair.
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