Hub Leadership Team

Dean Chang

Associate Vice President, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
University of Maryland

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Hub Principal Investigator

Dan Kunitz

Director, Venture Strategy and Development, Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech)
University of Maryland

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Hub Director, Hub Co-PI

James Chung

Associate Vice President for Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
George Washington University

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Hub Co-Principal Investigator

Wade Fulghum

Assistant Vice Chancellor, Office of Research Commercialization
NC State University

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Hub Co-Principal Investigator

James Delattre

Associate Vice President for Research and Director, Office of Entrepreneurship & Commercialization
Penn State University

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Hub Co-Principal Investigator

Edmund Pendleton

I-Corps Mid-Atlantic Hub Curriculum Committee Chair
University of Maryland

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Lead Instructor, Curriculum Committee Chair

Legand Burge

Professor and Executive Director, Howard West
Howard University

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Howard Faculty Lead

Jessica Menold

Assistant Professor, Engineering Design and Mechanical Engineering
Penn State University

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Partner Faculty Lead / Research Lead (Faculty), Research Committee Chair

Mireya Mckee

Director, KickStart Venture Services
University of North Carolina

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Broadening Participation Committee Chair

David Steele

Hub Coordinator, NSF I-Corps Mid-Atlantic Region
Program Manager, UMD I-Corps
University of Maryland

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Hub Coordinator

Joyce Shirazi

Dean of the Graduate College at Hampton University

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Hampton Faculty Lead

Laurie Actman

Chief Marketing, Communications and Program Officer, Penn Center for Innovation
University of Pennsylvania

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Kit Needham

Assistant Dean for Entrepreneurship Initiatives; Director, Project Olympus
Carnegie Mellon University

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Mark Mondry

Director, LAUNCH
Virginia Tech University

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Devin Collins

Director - Commercialization Technology and Science; University of North Carolina Charlotte

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Mark VanderZyl

Associate Director of Startup Advancement Johns Hopkins University

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Faculty Leads

Kit Needham

Assistant Dean for Entrepreneurship Initiatives; Director, Project Olympus
Carnegie Mellon University

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Joyce Shirazi

Dean of the Graduate College at Hampton University

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Mireya Mckee

Director, KickStart Venture Services
University of North Carolina

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Alison Flatau

Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Maryland

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Pamela McCauley

Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
NC State University

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Jessica Menold

Assistant Professor, Engineering Design and Mechanical Engineering
Penn State University

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Mark Mondry

Director, LAUNCH
Virginia Tech University

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Sashank Reddy

Medical Director, Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures
Johns Hopkins University

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Ekundayo Shittu

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering & Applied Science
George Washington University

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Legand Burge

Professor and Executive Director, Howard West
Howard University

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Mark Yim

Director, GRASP Lab; Faculty Director, Design Studio (Venture Labs); Asa Whitney Professor, MEAM
University of Pennsylvania

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Devin Collins

Director - Commercialization Technology and Science; University of North Carolina Charlotte

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Hub Curriculum Committee

Edmund Pendleton

I-Corps Mid-Atlantic Hub Curriculum Committee Chair
University of Maryland

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Committee Chair

Kit Needham

Assistant Dean for Entrepreneurship Initiatives; Director, Project Olympus
Carnegie Mellon University

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Tomas Isakowitz

Manager, PCI Fellows and Penn I-Corps at Penn Center for Innovation
University of Pennsylvania

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Bob Smith

Director of I-Corps
George Washington University

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Mireya McKee

Director, KickStart Venture Services
University of North Carolina

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Judy Prasad

Operations and Program Manager, KickStart Ventures Services
University of North Carolina

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Glen Hellman

UMD I-Corps Instructor & Program Manager
Executive Coach
University of Maryland

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Tim Martin

Senior Licensing Associate, Office of Research Commercialization
NC State University

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Sarah Leary

Program Manager, Office of Entrepreneurship
George Washington University

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Glenn Watson

Executive In Residence
Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University

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Dennis Gilmore

President, Crosslynk Research Consulting

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Hub Broadening Participation Committee

Mireya McKee

Director, KickStart Venture Services
University of North Carolina

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Committee Chair

Ekundayo Shittu

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering & Applied Science
George Washington University

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Dorn Carranza

Associate Director for Strategic Partnerships and Innovation
U.S. Food and Drug Administration

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Lindsay Ryan

Venture Development Director
University System of Maryland

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Daya Taylor

Architecture Department Chairperson and Associate Professor Hampton University

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Elizabeth Good Mazhari

Investment and DEI Advisor
TEDCO

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Melanie Simko

Senior Program Manager, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship Carnegie Mellon University

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Jainaba Ceesay

UMD I-Corps Instructor & Program Manager
Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech)
University of Maryland

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Amy Parker

Assistant Director, Research Commercialization Programs; North Carolina State University

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Yan Bin

Associate VP for Research, Director, Office of Technology Management
Penn State University

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Talmesha Richards

Principal Manager,GEM I4
The National GEM Consortium

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Latane Brackett

Innovation Program Manager at Jackson State University

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Tomas Isakowitz

Manager, PCI Fellows and Penn I-Corps at Penn Center for Innovation
University of Pennsylvania

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Hub Research Committee

Jessica Menold

Assistant Professor, Engineering Design and Mechanical Engineering
Penn State University

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Committee Chair

Cynthia Reifsnider

Salesforce Database Developer, Data Analyst, and Research Analyst
University of North Carolina

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Laurie Actman

Chief Marketing, Communications and Program Officer, Penn Center for Innovation
University of Pennsylvania

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Dan Kunitz

Director, Venture Strategy and Development, Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech)
University of Maryland

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Melanie Simko

Program Manager, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship
Carnegie Mellon University

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David Steele

Hub Coordinator, NSF I-Corps Mid-Atlantic Region
Program Manager, UMD I-Corps
University of Maryland

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Nour Ali Ahmed

Program Analyst and Hub Evaluation Lead

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Sarah Leary

Program Manager, Office of Entrepreneurship
George Washington University

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Lindsay Ryan

Venture Development Director
University System of Maryland

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Karen Maxwell

Assoc. Professor & Chair
Department of Business Management & Management Information System
Hampton University

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Hub Lead University Team

University of Maryland

Dan Kunitz

Mid-Atlantic I-Corps Hub Director
Maryland Innovation Extension Director
University of Maryland

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David Steele

Hub Coordinator, NSF I-Corps Mid-Atlantic Region
Program Manager, UMD I-Corps
University of Maryland

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Edmund Pendleton

Mid-Atlantic I-Corps Hub Lead Instructor
NSF I-Corps Instructor
University of Maryland

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Nour Ali Ahmed

Program Analyst and Hub Evaluation Lead

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Jainaba Ceesay

UMD I-Corps Instructor & Program Manager
University of Maryland

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Dave Sandrowitz

Associate Director and Instructor of UMD I-Corps
University of Maryland

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Glen Hellman

UMD I-Corps Instructor & Program Manager
Executive Coach
University of Maryland

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Giacinto Saggesse

UMD I-Corps Instructor and Adjunct Professor University of Maryland

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