As the founding Executive Director of the Tom Love Innovation Hub at OU, Mr. Wavering created OK Catalyst – providing networking, training and mentoring to entrepreneurs and small businesses in OK. Since 2018, OK Catalyst has helped 13 companies win $8.9 million in SBIR awards.
Ms. Trotter has worked tirelessly throughout her career to ensure Tennessee entrepreneurs have an opportunity to be supported by and leverage SBIR funding to achieve commercialization. She advocates for entrepreneurs, ensuring their voices are heard at the Tennessee legislature.
As a serial entrepreneur and SBIR ambassador, Dr. Syage is a leading expert in mass spectrometry and trace chemical detection who has not only seen Phase III success of $117M+ with his own businesses, but shared his expertise to help others in his community succeed alongside him.
Having served the U.S. Navy for a combined 46 years, Mr. Noel has spent the past 20 of those years providing leadership and vision to spearhead the charge to support new Phase III SBIR development for the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command.
David Metzger is a retired partner of Arnold & Porter. He has dedicated a large part of his practice to the issue of SBIR data rights and made a deep and lasting impression on the SBIR program and the success of many companies.
Dr. Lee has not only authored a large number of topics and led a program that issued over 800 SBIR contracts valued at over $500M, but has also managed $19.5M+ in Phase I and Phase II SBIR/ STTR contracts, as well as Phase III contracts totaling more than $247M.
Mr. Hill’s focus is on making SBIR/STTR contract execution simpler, faster, and easier – while the number of awards has increased, Phase I time to award & time without funding between phases has decreased. Recently, CCOE executed 79 fully-funded Phase I contracts in just 23 days.
Dr. Gyuk’s leadership and curiosity has driven technical and commercial development and innovation in energy storage technology through meaningful relationships with small business, industry, academia, and government.
Dr. Duke has made a career out of innovating, teaching, learning, and successfully commercializing technologies. His efforts have led to numerous policies benefitting innovation and business as well as generating millions of dollars through successful tech ventures.
Dr. Couick spearheaded SBIR contracting via GSA’s Assisted Acquisition Services (AAS) that provides increased access to cutting-edge technology for the federal Government while helping small businesses meet their commercialization goals.