Ted is an experienced entrepreneur who has been CEO, COO, CFO, and Chairman in companies covering a broad range of technologies including medical devices, life science molecular tools, waste heat to energy conversion, new materials, and MEMS devices. Ted received a BA in Economics Phi Beta Kappa in three years from Union College and an …
Alexandros Tsamis is an Architect and Assistant Professor at the school of architecture, RPI. He is the Graduate Program Director of Built Ecologies MS & PhD and the Associate Director of CASE. He earned his PhD in Architecture, Computation and Master of Science (SMArchS) in Building Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He …
Tracy Foltz is President of Falk Precision Inc, an employee-owned precision machine shop, in East Syracuse. Prior to accepting the position of President in 2016, Tracy served as a human resources manager for over 10 years in the trucking and manufacturing industries as well as a year as Chief Administrative Officer. She earned her M.S.Ed. …
Tory Van Voorhis is the founder and CEO of Second Avenue Learning, an award-winning educational software studio that has been producing educational games, simulations, and interactives for 17 years. She has served as the principal investigator for multiple Department of Education and National Science Foundation grants. Tory currently serves on the boards of the RMSC …
Ryan M. Silva has served as Executive Director of the New York State Economic Development Council (NYSEDC) since August of 2017. Ryan has helped NYSEDC achieve several landmark policy development wins including passage of The New York State Green Chips Act and the Federal CHIPs and Science Act, the creation of the Fast NY (Shovel …
Somak Chattopadhyay has been operating and investing in early-stage startups in New York State and other emerging venture regions since 1999. Before launching ASV in 2014, he was a partner at Tribeca Venture Partners (formerly Greenhill SAVP, “Tribeca”), where he was instrumental in nearly every investment of its first fund and helped launch its second …
Dr. Foley joined Deerfield in 2018. Most recently, he was the CEO and Sanders Director at Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute (Tri-I TDI) where he led the efforts to discover drug candidates in an academic setting. Prior to Tri-I TDI, he was Director of the Chemical Biology Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. …
Michael Frame serves as the Senior Vice President for Workforce Development and Chief Operations Officer for MACNY, the Manufacturing Association. In this role, Mike guides MACNY’s mission to grow and expand the use of Registered Apprenticeship and other Workforce Development programs supporting both MACNY’s and Partners for Education and Business, Inc.’s (PEB) activities, as well …
Fayrouz Saad is a Michigan native with almost 20 years experience working in public service at the state, local, and federal level. Ms. Saad has proven herself a leader in public policy by developing, managing, and executing strategies to inform and promote a wide range of complicated policy issues. She currently serves as an appointee …
Cara Wells is an entrepreneur, inventor, and animal scientist. After earning her PhD in Animal Science, she worked as an embryologist in both animal and human clinical IVF laboratories, where she became familiar with challenges in these industries. She currently serves as the founder and CEO of EmGenisys, an animal ag tech company, commercializing software …
