Dr. Kenneth McLennan - Chairman
Natasha Blackshear
Alfred F. Boschulte
Dr. Germain B. Böer
Dr. Colleen Conway-Welch
Dr. William A. Jenkins
Dr. Christopher McKinney
Robert M. Neumeister, Jr.
Robert G. Rogers
Joe B. Wyatt
Dr. Kenneth McLennan - Chairman
Dr. Kenneth McLennan has extensive experience in academic, government and non-profit organizations. He was the President and Chief Executive Officer, Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI, a policy research organization supported by some 450 companies in manufacturing; and the Vice President for Industrial Studies, Committee for Economic Development. He was an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, and a tenured Professor and the Chairman of the Department of Economics at Temple University. He served as a Division Chief, Social Affairs and Industrial Relations at Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France.
Currently, Dr. McLennan is an Adjunct Professor in the Thomas Jefferson Public Policy Program at The College of William and Mary and Adjunct faculty for the joint Master of Public Health Program at Eastern Virginia Medical School - Old Dominion University. In addition, he is a Research Associate at the Center for Excellence in Aging and Geriatric Health, The College of William and Mary.
He received his B.Sc. from London School of Economics, MBA from University of Toronto and PhD from University of Wisconsin (Madison).
Natasha Blackshear
Natasha L. Blackshear is the Founding Member of Blackshear Capital & Legal, PLLC where she manages all aspects of a company that provides business and legal advice to help entrepreneurs and investors to come together to form, buy, sell, and build businesses. She has over nine years experience analyzing and valuing businesses, including five years as a venture capitalist.
Ms. Blackshear is a licensed attorney in good standing in the states of Tennessee, New York and Massachusetts. She earned her JD from Harvard Law School and her MBA and BS in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University. She also studied at the University of Seville Business School in Seville, Spain and she is proficient in Spanish. She currently serves on the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth and the Advisory Board of Cornell University's Emerging Markets Program as well as on the Board of Directors of Market Matters, Inc. She is also a member of the Board of Directors, and a past president, of the Harvard Club of Middle Tennessee. She is a member of the American, Tennessee and Nashville Bar Associations.
Alfred F. Boschulte
Mr. Boschulte has more than thirty years experience in the telecommunications industry, most recently as Chief Executive Officer of SkyOptix, Inc., an Optical Network Management Company whose products equip service providers with tools and systems that intelligently manage their current and next-generation multi-vendor SONET, Optical and DCS-based transport networks.
Mr. Boschulte presently sits on the boards of directors at several NASDAQ companies, including TranSwitch and Symmetricom Corporations, the non-profit Independent Systems Operator Corporation, is Chairman of Wireless Access, a private broadband internet wireless corporation, and is a former board member of NorthEast Utilities Corporation.
He received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from City College of New York and MS in Engineering from City University of New York.
Dr. Germain B. Böer
Dr. Germain Böer is Professor of Management at the Owen
Graduate School of Management of Vanderbilt University where he teaches and does research in management accounting and
entrepreneurship. He has published numerous articles and books on accounting, and he now does research on new business startups.
He was a cofounder and manager of a retail photo store that catered to sophisticated amateur photographers.
In addition to his research, Dr. Böer is a business advisor to several startup ventures. He is currently heading up the entrepreneurship effort at the Owen Graduate School of Management of Vanderbilt University. In this role he has started an annual conference on entrepreneurship, a system for linking entrepreneurs with MBA graduates, a roundtable of individuals in various schools at Vanderbilt for sharing ideas about creating new ventures, and several new courses that equip MBAs to become entrepreneurs.
Dr. Colleen Conway-Welch
Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., R.N., Dean, Vanderbilt University, School of Nursing.
Dr. Conway-Welch has served as dean and a professor at Vanderbilt University's School of Nursing since 1984. She was recently selected by Secretary of Health and Human Service Tommy Thompson to serve as a member of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service Secretary's Council on Public Health Preparedness. She is a Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Science.
She also serves as a Fellow, American Academy of Nursing , Vice Chair, Tennessee State Board of Nursing , Member, Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee (MCAC), Department of Health & Human Services, Member, Working group, Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness/Academic Health Centers Consultant, HHS Commission on Workforce/Workplace Systems Redesign, Member, Secretary's Council on Public Health Preparedness, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness, DHHS, appointed by Secretary Tommy Thompson.
Dr. William A. Jenkins
William A. Jenkins is the Managing Director of Huron Consulting Group.
His areas of expertise in the higher education industry include financial reporting, research administration, strategic planning and budgeting, operational improvement, technology, human resources, organizational design, leadership, values, physical plant management, and a myriad of other operational functions.
Dr. Jenkins has 30 years of executive experience, including Executive Vice President for Administration at the California Institute of Technology, Vice Chancellor for Administration at Vanderbilt University, and positions within both North Carolina State University and Cornell University. Being a senior officer at research universities and academic medical centers, coupled with speaking and consulting engagements, has provided Dr. Jenkins with scores of operational and strategic experiences.
He received his MS and PhD from Purdue University, and BS from Indiana State University.
Dr. Christopher McKinney
Dr. McKinney has over seventeen years of experience in university and federal laboratory technology transfer. He is the Director of Vanderbilt University's Office of Technology Transfer and Enterprise Development. He joined the Vanderbilt technology transfer organization in 2001 after serving at the University of Tennessee. Additionally, he has worked in technology transfer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Florida, and the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory.
Dr. McKinney teaches engineering management courses in Vanderbilt's School of Engineering. Dr. McKinney has served and presently serves on a number of for-profit and non-profit boards of directors. He has also been very active in the Association of University Technology Managers, most recently serving as its Vice President for Professional Development (2002-4).
Robert M. Neumeister, Jr.
Mr. Neumeister is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Linux Networks, Inc. a privately held venture capital backed company which manufactures, sells and services high performance computers based on a cluster architecture and Linux open source software.
Previously, he was an Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Office of Dex Media Inc., and a Chief Financial Officer of Prolexis Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Aerie Networks Inc. He serves on several Boards of Directors, including Symmetricom, Inc. and A Software Corporation (both NASDQ listed), and Covad Communications Group, Inc. (AMEX listed).
He received his BA from Vanderbilt University and MBA from Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia.
Robert G. Rogers
Robert G. Rogers is currently a financial consultant and former managing director of the Global Information
Infrastructure Commission, a confederation of chief executive officers of information and communications
technology firms from throughout the world who are collectively dedicated as GIIC commissioners to fostering
sustained economic development in emerging market nations through the encouragement and facilitation of
investment in telecommunications and advanced computing facilities. For 19 years prior to joining the GIIC,
Mr. Rogers was an attorney and corporate government affairs practitioner in Washington, D.C. Additionally,
he serves or has served as a member of the Wilson Council of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars; trustee, Public Affairs Foundation; director, Public Affairs Council; director, Manufacturers Alliance
public affairs council; co-chair, Federal Communications Bar Association legislation committee; and member, U.S.
General Services Administration Business Advisory Board.
Joe B. Wyatt
Joe B. Wyatt is Chancellor Emeritus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, having served as Vanderbilt's sixth Chancellor
and Chief Executive Officer for eighteen years. Earlier he was a member of the faculty and administration at Harvard University and
was Vice President for Administration. Mr. Wyatt is currently Chairman of the Board of the Universities Research Association, Inc.
of Washington, D.C. and is Chairman of the Government University Industry Research Roundtable of the National Academy of Sciences.
He holds degrees in mathematics from Texas Christian University and the University of Texas at Austin.
