Richard R. McNamara of RRM&A, LLC

Mr. McNamara had a distinguished forty year career with the Department of Navy culminating in eight years as a member of the Senior Executive Service (SES) — four years as the Deputy Program Manager for the Virginia Class Submarine and four as Executive Director PEO Submarines.  In 2008 he retired and established RRM & Associates, LLC.

He has more than 22 years in senior program and executive management positions in acquisition and procurement and is a recognized leader in the Navy acquisition community. He is Level III certified in two Acquisition Professional competencies – Program Management, and Research and Systems Engineering. He has been awarded the DOD Small Business Program Manager of the Year in 2002 and holds the distinction of having managed over $1 Billion in successful Small Business Innovative Research [SBIR] transitions to the fleet. As a Legislative Fellow, he worked on Capitol Hill in the United States Senate.

Ryan Shealy is the Deputy Program Manager of NAVSEA’s SBIR/STTR Program and the Technology Manager for the Directorates and HQ. He has been working with the Navy since September 2011. He started as a Project Manager for the OHIO Replacement Program’s Design for Affordability group where he led over 125 initiatives totaling $1B+ in potential savings for the class. He joined the SBIR/STTR Program in July of 2014 and is responsible for topic generation and review, budget execution, and assisting the Program Manager in his daily duties.

Mr. Shealy graduated from Virginia Military Institute in the Spring of 2004 where he majored in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He began his career in the private sector as an Electrical Projects Engineer where he designed controls software for nuclear power and manufacturing plants.

Lisa Kuuttila joined STC.UNM (STC), the University of New Mexico’s technology‐transfer and economic‐ development organization, as President & CEO in 2003. She is currently CEO & Chief Economic Development Officer of the organization. In 2013, STC.UNM was tasked by the University with implementing its economic‐  development initiatives under her leadership.  She works with the STC.UNM Board of Directors in developing strategies for implementing STC’s vision to play a vital role in New Mexico’s economic development and to be a leader in technology commercialization. Under her leadership, STC.UNM is substantially growing its program using the Rainforest model to develop an innovation ecosystem in New Mexico.

Lisa has more than 30 years of prior leadership experience in technology commercialization and licensing.

Ms. Audet-Auxt is the Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Headquarters Research and Development (R&D) and Innovation Program Manager. Working in the Strategy and Innovation Office, she is responsible for managing R&D Programs within the Enterprise and oversees the Logistics Innovation Cell (LogIC) Program. She is currently in the process of working with Leadership to build a program that involves promoting innovation and generating innovative ideas from both the military and civilian workforce. Over the past two years she has worked diligently to increase the R&D requirements for the Enterprise to support the Fleet and Warfighter. She is the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Manager for the Command and assists the Assistant Commands (ACOMs) with identifying ACOM R&D needs and understanding program requirements. She has successfully doubled the NAVSUP SBIR funding need and introduced an outreach program to showcase new Small Businesses efforts to NAVSUP.

Ana Consuelo Matiella, MA, CEO of ACMA Social Marketing

Ms. Matiella has a BS in Applied Sociology from Northern Arizona University and an MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Arizona.  Her areas of expertise are in social marketing, innovative multicultural health communications, storytelling and fotonovela production.

Ms. Matiella is currently the PI of an SBIR Fast Track –  De Las Mías a Bilingual, Healthy Lifestyle Digital Platform for Latinas.

Since 2006, Dan has been instrumental in securing and performing SBIR Phase I and II grants from the NIH, NSF, and USDA for employers (inXsol) and clients.In addition to his corporate responsibilities, Dan is a proposal/plan writing workshop instructor, Coach of startup clients, and moderator of topic-specific workshops. Dan specializes in addressing: Innovation Research, Partner Search, Research/Work Plans, Strategic Alliances, Roadmaps, Finance/Forecast, and Project Evaluation.

Mr. Douglas L. Marker is the Technology Manager of the Navy Program Executive Office, Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS). Currently, he manages PEO IWS activities in the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR), Rapid Innovation Fund (RIF), and Automatic Test and Analysis (ATA) programs.  At the NAVSEA SYSCOM level he is serving as the RIF Execution Manager.

At the Joint level, he served as a Charter Member of the BMDO (now MDA) Joint Technology Board (JTB) which assisted BMDO in developing its first Master Technology Plan. Other multi-service assignments include Chairman of the Carbon Fiber Tri-Service Risk Analysis Committee, Test Engineer for Tri-Service Quick Response Effort during the Iranian Hostage Crisis, and member of the Tri-Service Chaff Committee.

Mr. Leggett is responsible for planning and executing the outreach activities for the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) SBIR/STTR Program Office to educate and encourage small businesses to participate in the program. Mr. Leggett has been working with various Department of Defense Programs for over 15 years. He previously supported the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Space Policy as the Administrative Officer. Prior to his work in the Pentagon, Mr. Leggett served as a Test Planner on NAVSEA’s Force Advanced Warfare Technologies (FACT) and the Navy’s Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Programs. Mr. Leggett obtained his Masters of Science in Business Technologies from Marymount University in the spring of 2003 and has a Bachelor Degree in Business Writing from Christopher Newport University.  Mr. Leggett is also a certified Program Management Institute Program Management Professional.

Mr. Smith is the director of the Navy’s Small Business Innovation Research Program.  Mr. Smith manages numerous activities designed to assist small businesses in getting their technology fully developed, tested, and inserted into products and services used by our Naval warfighters.

Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Smith was the Director of Disruptive Technologies in the Office of Naval Research.  The mission of the Disruptive Technologies program is to provide game changing technical options for the future Navy.  Mr. Smith was also the Program Manager for the Department of the Navy’s Rapid Innovation Fund which supports small business concerns rapidly inserting their technology solutions into acquisition programs of record.

Eugene “Cliff” Hudson is the CEO for Emerging Technology Ventures Inc. (ETV) and manages the Autonomous and Unmanned Systems Cluster (AUSC). He has more than 32 years of experience from the Department of Defense (DoD) in acquisition and technology transition management. Mr. Hudson retired from the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific, where his duties included management of the autonomous and unmanned system technology transition activities of the Robotics Mentor Protégé Program.

Barbara left part-time retirement to accept a full time position as Deputy Secretary of the state’s Economic Development Department.

She is the former President of New Mexico First, a state wide public policy not-for-profit.  Prior to New Mexico First, she retired from Intel Corporation in Rio Rancho where she worked as the Manager of Government Affairs and Public Affairs.  Before her career at Intel, Barbara worked as a public relations staff manager at U.S. West Communications in Albuquerque and spent 12 years working for the state’s largest savings and loan association.  She has also worked as the community relations director for the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, was public relations manager for the United Way of Greater Albuquerque, and public information director for the YMCA in Albuquerque.

Dr. Joy Colucci is the founder and CEO of Metis Technology Solutions, Inc., which she formed in 2010. Headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Metis employs 90 engineers and subject matter experts providing aeronautics and space systems development support to NASA and the US Air Force. Prior to founding Metis, Dr. Colucci held senior management positions at Hughes Applied Information Systems, Raytheon Technical Services, and Booz Allen Hamilton. As a business leader, she has been responsible for organizations of up to 500 technical staff and $60M in annual contract revenue.

Metis supports several high-visibility programs, including numerous NASA spaceflight missions, modeling and simulation for aeronautics research, and satellite ground system development. The company has been recognized with over 20 NASA achievement awards, was the 2016 NASA Ames Research Center’s Subcontractor of the Year, and was ranked New Mexico’s 6^th fastest growing technology company as a 2017 New Mexico Flying 40 award winner.

Joy earned BS, MS and PhD degrees in Earth System Science. She enjoys the outdoors, is an avid reader, and lives in New Mexico with her family.

Hunter McDaniel, PhD is UbiQD’s Founder and CEO. UbiQD’s quantum dot window tints will power and feed the smart cities of tomorrow, however, these novel materials can improve lives via other applications in energy, displays, security, safety, healthcare, and more. During his career, Dr. McDaniel at top-tier research institutions; LANL, Argonne, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and UC Santa Barbara. Dr. McDaniel has been PI on two SBIR grants from NSF and the DOE.

David Kellner is the President of Cogent Innovations, a high-tech consulting firm based in Santa Fe, NM. David has been the PI or project manager on numerous SBIR projects from agencies including NSF, NIH, EPA, DOD, DOT, and others. He has also provided consulting services on all aspects of SBIR projects, and has aided in securing over $50 million in SBIR funds over the last 7 years.

Drawing from 30 years of experience in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and federal and defense laboratories, Ms. Knighten brings a unique combination of strategy, development and management expertise with engineering and emerging technology know, including experience with Small Business Innovative Research programs. She has led numerous successful start up and transformational initiatives, such as reinstating New Mexico’s Office of Science and Technology where she created and funded a strategy, published “Innovate NM”, the State’s Science and Technology Plan, and obtained over $ 6M in federal funding to support the NM Catalyst Fund and the plan priorities.  During her most recent assignment at TEAM Technologies, Inc., she developed and implemented a Hardware Accelerator program for Albuquerque entrepreneurs seeking minimum viable products.  She holds a Bachelor of Science in Logistics Management, Weber State University and a Masters Certificate, Project Management, Villanova University.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/patricia-knighten-24a27

Peter C. Anselmo is Executive Director of the Center for Technology Commercialization at New Mexico Tech in Socorro, NM.  His current efforts are focused on NMT’s organic approach to development of faculty and staff IP for commercialization.  As such, the main current thrust at NMT with regard to STTRs is development of attractive license opportunities for both NMT and potential licensees.  NMT’s strategy is to mitigate as many development risks as possible prior to licensing.