Neil J. Campbell:  A co-founder of EntreMed, Inc., now Chairman and CEO of Mosaigen, Inc., a life sciences and information technology development company.  He is also a Partner with Endeavour Capital Asia, a venture capital fund, and an Adjunct Professor at the Carey School of Business at Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Campbell is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the life sciences and information technology and has extensive experience in venture creation and commercial development of technology in North America, Europe and Asia.  He is also Executive Chairman of CureKids, a venture philanthropy that is tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

J. Montieth Estes, Esq.:  lawyer in private practice and investor in Rochester, New York. Mr. Estes is on the Board of Directors of Excell Partners, Inc. a regional economic development partnership established in cooperation with the University of Rochester and New York State to manage a state-supported fund that provides pre-seed and seed-stage funding to start-up high technology start-ups in Upstate New York. He is also on the Board of Directors and Secretary of the Upstate Venture Association of New York, Inc. and is active with the Universities of Upstate New York Venture Forum. Mr. Estes was also Chairman and CEO and Chief Operating Officer, respectively, of two technology companies and is very knowledgeable about the process of commercializing technology.

Valerie S. Gaydos:  entrepreneur, investor, consultant to and Advisory Board member of numerous emerging technology companies. Ms. Gaydos is Executive Director and a member of the Private Investors Forum (“PIF”), based in Philadelphia PIF is a nonprofit organization of accredited private investors dedicated to providing education and stimulating investment activity, and produces the highly and consistently successful annual Angel Venture Forum. Ms. Gaydos is the President and CEO of Fifty-First Associates, LLC, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a diversified consulting firm that specializes in business and organizational development, association management, and legislative and governmental relations. She is also Publisher of Capital Growth, Inc., a publication devoted to news about venture capital financing, and the nationwide Annual Venture Guide of Entrepreneurial Resources. Ms. Gaydos previously was Director of the Technology Council of the Greater Baltimore Committee (“GBC”), a group of more than 300 technology companies in Maryland, where she was involved in all aspects of the GBC’s support of and outreach to the technology community in the Greater Baltimore region.

Edgar C. Harrell, Ph.D.:  Economist and investor with more than 30 years of experience managing private and public programs in the areas of privatization, technology commercialization, entrepreneurial training, capital market development, private investment in Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East and early stage financing of technology companies.  Dr. Harrell also is on numerous Boards of Directors, including the Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern Pennsylvania and the Penn State Research Foundation

Ann Lansinger:  President, Emerging Technology Centers, Baltimore, Maryland.  Ms. Lansinger was founding President, Maryland Business Incubator Association and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Business Incubator Association and numerous other organizations devoted to technology entrepreneurship and economic growth.

Gary W.W. McPherson, C.M., LL.D.:  Founder and Director of the Canadian Centre for Social Entrepreneurship of the University of Alberta.  In 2004, Mr. McPherson was awarded the Order of Canada, his country’s highest civilian honor.

Frederick A. Provorny, Esq.:  Founder of the Center for New Technology Enterprise.  After more than 25 years of legal practice and experience in technology commercialization, Professor Provorny became the first Harold R. Tyler Professor of Law and Technology at Albany Law School of Union University, the founding Director of the New York State Science and Technology Law Center. (The first program of its kind) and the founder and President of the Empire State Venture Group, which hosts the annual SmartStart Venture Forum.  Professor Provorny then moved to the University Of Maryland School Of Law, where as Director of the Maryland Intellectual Property Legal Resource Center, he greatly expanded its student enrollment, geographical reach and scope of services.  By the time Professor Provorny left the University of Maryland to establish the Center for New Technology Enterprise, the Legal Resource Center had developed national renown for excellence and innovation.  Professor Provorny serves on the Biotechnology Advisory Board at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and the Advisory Committee of the Due Diligence Fellowship Program of the Pennsylvania Angel Network.