They hired me to be the director of commercialization in 2002, and it was a tremendous job.
These efforts included serving as a director of commercialization for fuel cell development for General Motors, where he closed the world's largest fuel cell commercialization deal with Dow Chemical and developed a fleet of fuel cell vehicles for the U.S. Postal Service.
"Data very clearly supports our statement that chemical usage has not increased in any significant fashion even though production [of corn] has increased," says Geoff Cooper, director of commercialization and business development with the National Corn Growers Association.
*Ford Motor, no longer content with the $3 million or so that it reaped each year from licensing its manufacturing processes to other companies, recently appointed Damian Porcari, one of its intellectual property lawyers, to be director of technology commercialization.
Dr Thomas formerly served as the statewide director of technology commercialization with the Small Business and Technology Development Center SBTDCC) in Raleigh.
Two hydrogen-powered versions of the Chevrolet Equinox sport utility vehicle are now on Westchester roads as part of G.M.'s Project Driveway, which aims to lend 100 fuel-cell vehicles free to consumers in New York, Washington and Los Angeles over the next three years, said Daniel O'Connell, G.M.'s director of fuel-cell commercialization.
ASD is a Professor of Public Health Sciences and of Surgery at the University of Toronto, and is Senior Scientist and Director of Ethics and Commercialization at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Haig R. Nalbantian ([email protected]) is a principal and a worldwide partner as well as the director of global research and commercialization at the consulting firm Mercer in New York.
Local and provincial government support has been essential for the industry's development, according to Susan Crowley, executive director of the London Biotechnology Commercialization Centre (LBCC), the group overseeing the LBI project.
Alan Paau, the executive director of the Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization, which last year reported 338 new inventions and launched 12 new companies, says he encourages professors to think entrepreneurially.
"We believe that the show violates several of the few existing rules we have to protect children from over-commercialization," said Susan Linn, director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, a nonprofit group.
