Thirty-two leaders and experts in technology, innovation, workforce development and academia have been appointed to the National Advisory Council on Innovation & Entrepreneurship (NACIE), the U.S. Department of Commerce announced.
NACIE will be charged with developing a National Entrepreneurship Strategy that strengthens America's ability to compete and win as the world's leading startup nation and as the world's leading innovator in critical emerging technologies. The council will help with identifying and recommending solutions to drive the innovation economy, including growing a skilled STEM workforce and removing barriers for entrepreneurs ushering innovative technologies into the market. The council also facilitates federal dialogue with the innovation, entrepreneurship, and workforce development communities.
NACIE is a federal advisory committee managed by the U.S. Economic Development Administration's Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. More than 260 nominees were received. Members will serve two-year terms.
The newly appointed NACIE members are:
Non-Voting Federal Ex-Officio Co-Chairs
- Alejandra Y. Castillo, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration
- Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director, National Science Foundation
Voting Non-Federal Co-Chairs
- Steve Case, Chairman/CEO of Revolution; Co-Founder of AOL
- Kristina Johnson, President, The Ohio State University
Voting Members
- Byron G. Auguste, Co-Founder/CEO, Opportunity@Work
- Patricia Beckmann, Founder/Managing Director, BioStrategy
- Melissa Bradley, Founder/Managing Partner/General Partner, 1863 Ventures
- Allie Burns, CEO, Village Capital
- Christopher Chung, CEO, Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina
- Sherrese Clarke Soares, Founder & CEO, HarbourView Equity Partners
- Michael Crow, President, Arizona State University
- Lisa Feria, Managing Partner/CEO, Stray Dog Capital
- Annette Finsterbusch, President/CEO, EnPower, Inc.
- Brit Fitzpatrick, Chief of Staff, Stark
- Aziz Gilani, General Partner/Managing Director, Mercury Fund
- Orin Herskowitz, Executive Director, Senior VP of Intellectual Property & Technology Transfer, Columbia Technology Ventures
- Neil Kane, Director, Curriculum and Capstone Advising, ESTEEM (Engineering, Science, and Technology Entrepreneurship Excellence Master's) Graduate Program, University of Notre Dame
- David Kenney, President/Executive Director, VertueLab
- Wendy Lea, Co-Founder/CEO, Energize Colorado
- Ian McClure, Associate VP for Research, Innovation & Economic Impact, University of Kentucky
- Senofer Mendoza, Founder/General Partner, Mendoza Ventures
- Rachel Meyers, Chief Science Officer, Faze Medicines
- Nate Mook, CEO, World Central Kitchen
- Bill Provine, CEO Delaware Innovation Space
- Ryan Ramkhelawan, Co-Founder/Managing Partner, Lasting Machine Ventures
- Aimee Rose, Executive Managing Director, Activate.org
- Laura Sachar, Co-Founder/Managing Partner, StarVest Partners
- Peter Scher, Vice Chairman, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- Liz Shuler, President, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
- Grace Simrall, Chief of Civic Innovation & Technology, Louisville Metro Government
- Dug Song, Chief Strategy Officer, Cisco Security
- Tamara Steffens, Managing Director, Thomson Reuters Venture Fund
Throughout its history, NACIE has presented recommendations to the Secretary of Commerce along the research-to-jobs continuum, such as increasing access to capital, growing and connecting entrepreneurial communities, fostering small business-driven research and development, supporting the commercialization of key technologies, and developing the workforce of the future. Several of these recommendations have been implemented through legislative action, federal grant programs, or Commerce-led research and have spurred action and collaboration between the public and private sector.
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