Oregon PSM

Ann Bynum
Operations Director
Intel Corporation

Ann Bynum is currently the Operations Manager for the Mobile Internet Platform Engineering (MIPE) team in UMG.  As Operations Manager she oversees the organization's operational policies, objectives, initiatives and continuous process improvement efforts.  Additional responsibilities include owning and driving all annual plan activities & quarterly budget management, annual focal process, organizational development activities, routine staff and all-hands meetings.  She also is the MIPE focal point for coordination of all of the business/contract/PO engagements with Wind River software.  Ms. Bynum is a member of the Intel Architecture Group’s Career Council, and is a Novations certified instructor for the Intel Career Development Workshop.  Ms. Bynum joined Intel in 1987 as a Software Evaluation Engineer in the Development Tools Operation.  In her 20+ years at Intel she has managed a number of Intel’s university grant programs.  Ms. Bynum was also a member of the team responsible for the creation and development of the Intel Developer's Forum for which she and other members of the IDF team were awarded the 1998 Intel Achievement Award. Prior to joining Intel, Ms. Bynum was a Software Engineer at GTE Communication Systems where she was responsible for product validation and field support for a large business telephone exchange system.  Special interests include promoting the entrance of women into science and technology.  Ms. Bynum was a previous chair of the Corporate Technology Group’s Diversity Council.  She also has been a speaker for various panels and committees including the Intel 2000 Women & Technology Roundtable, the 1998 Engineering Foundation Conference: Tackling the Engineering Resources Shortage, the University of California, Berkeley Graduate Women's group "Balancing Family and Career" in 1996 and 1998, the University of Washington’s Women in Engineering Conferences in 1991 and 1995, and was co-chair for Intel’s participation in the first annual International Network of Women in Technology (WITI) conference in 1995.  Ms. Bynum earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Arizona State University in December 1983.

Senator Richard Devlin
Oregon State Senate

Richard Devlin began his service in the Oregon Legislature after being elected to the House of Representatives in 1996. He served three terms in the House before his election to the Oregon Senate in 2002.  At the end of the 2007 legislative session, Sen. Devlin was elected Senate Majority Leader. Sen. Devlin was chair of the Senate Rules and Executive Appointment Committee and a member of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Education during the 2009 legislative session.  In the 2009 interim he chairs the Senate Rules Committee.  Sen. Devlin also serves on numerous boards and commissions including the BEST Board, the National Performance Management Advisory Commission, and is the past chair of the NCSL Budget and Revenue Committee.  Sen. Devlin is a former member of the Metro Council, the Tualatin City Council, and the Tualatin Parks Advisory Committee. During his two terms on the Metro Council, Sen. Devlin chaired regional committees on green space conservation, intergovernmental relations, land use, transportation, and water issues.  Sen. Devlin was born in Eugene and earned his Bachelor of Science in Administration of Justice from Portland State University and his Master of Arts in management from Pepperdine University. Sen. Devlin’s occupational background is in adult and juvenile corrections and civil and criminal investigations, and he served in the United States Marine Corps. He resides in Tualatin with his wife Eliza, and they have two children.

Charlie Johnson
Economist
Oregon Employment Department

Charlie Johnson is a recent graduate of Eastern Oregon University, where he studied Business Administration and Philosophy, Politics & Economics. Soon after graduating, he seized an exciting opportunity to start his career in the state’s capitol as an economist with the Oregon Employment Department. The mission of the department is to “Support Business and Promote Employment” - in part by developing and distributing quality workforce and economic information to promote informed decision making. Charlie was recently involved in conducting a statewide survey and other research related to a report about Oregon’s green jobs titled The Greening of Oregon’s Workforce: Jobs, Wages, and Training. Charlie is currently coordinating Oregon’s efforts in a $1.25 million research grant which will improve the state’s information about green jobs.

Marvin Kaiser
Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
Portland State University

Marvin A. Kaiser is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Sociology at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.  He serves as the lead for the Portland State University, National Science Foundation funded, Lab2Market Initiative and is the Executive Director of the Society for Values in Higher Education.  He previously served as Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and as Director of the Center for Rural Initiatives and the Community Service Program at Kansas State University.  Dr. Kaiser received his BA in Philosophy from Cardinal Glennon College, an M.S.W. from the University of Kansas and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  He was the co-founder of the Oregon Community Service Commission and the Oregon Campus Compact.  He co-chaired the Portland, Oregon’s Vision PDX. In addition, he serves on the board of directors of, among others, Mary’s Woods Retirement Community in Lake Oswego, Oregon Mentors, Catholic Charities and Life by Design.  From 1985 to 1988 Dr. Kaiser was a W.K. Kellogg National Fellow.  As the author of numerous articles, book chapters and monographs, Dr. Kaiser has focused his scholarly efforts on domestic and international aging issues.  He has also published in the area of community and service learning.

David Kenney
President
Oregon Built Environment & Sustainable Technologies Center

David Kenney is the President and Executive Director of the Oregon Built Environment & Sustainable Technologies Center (Oregon BEST), a university-industry collaboration chartered to grow and utilize Oregon’s research capabilities in the sustainable built environment and renewable energy to support economic growth.  Kenney has over 15 years of business experience, knowledge of sustainable business practices and nonprofit management experience as a board leader of a sustainable agriculture education center.  During a 12-year tenure at Intel Corporation, Kenney held a wide range of roles in finance, project management and business and organizational operations. During his last seven years there, he helped build Intel Solution Services, a technical consulting organization, from its start to an organization operating in more than ten countries worldwide. He also co-founded and led the Intel Employee Sustainability Network.  Before joining Intel, Kenney was a Senior Consultant with Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group in Portland and also worked in local government.  He holds a BA from the University of Washington and an MBA and Certificate of Public Management from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

John Ledger
Vice President External Affairs
Associated Oregon Industries

John Ledger is Vice President for External Affairs at Associated Oregon Industries (AOI), Oregon’s largest and most influential business organization. He is the editor of the Business ViewPoint magazine (circulation over 23,000), oversees all public and other external relations for AOI and lobbies the Oregon legislature on environmental and transportation issues. A frequent speaker and columnist, John holds numerous appointments to boards and commissions from Governors Kitzhaber and Kulongoski, the President of the State Senate, and the Speaker of the Oregon House. John is Oregon’s leading expert on state-business environmental policy. He is responsible for the passage of sixteen pieces of innovative legislation including the Green Permits Act, and the Willamette River Watershed Improvement Trading Act, all promoting incentives for environmental improvement. He originated and authored the legislation creating the Oregon Sustainability Board, the first of its type in the nation. On the regulatory side, John represents the businesses community on rulemaking and policy issues before the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. He sits on many DEQ advisory committees ranging from water quality standards to permitting procedures. John began his career with Engineering Science, Inc. He spent fifteen years with the Idaho DEQ overseeing state air, cleanup, and hazardous waste programs before being appointed Deputy Director under Governor Cecil Andrus. Just before coming to AOI he taught upper division/graduate level courses in government and business interaction at Boise State University’s College of Business. Although born in St. Boniface, Canada, John grew up in Southern California. He earned a BS and MS in biology from California State University – Los Angeles, and did further work in biochemistry and biology at Idaho State University. John enjoys history, playing piano poorly, and tending his bonsai collection. John and his wife, Julie, live in south Salem with their dog, a turtle, and other small animals left behind by their now-grown son and daughter.

Wayne Lei
Director of Research & Development
Portland General Electric

Wayne Lei is the Director of Research and Development at Portland General Electric - a function he has lead for over 10 years. In this role, he has issued Technical Basis Documents and other white papers on environmental, social and technical issues affecting the Company. Prior to this, Lei was Director of Environmental Policy at PGE and, before that he served in the nuclear industry for ten years. He is currently a Board member for the Resource Innovation Group (University of Oregon), the Oregon Hanford Cleanup Board and he chairs the International Sustainable Foundation. Mr. Lei also serves on the Reactor Safety Committee for Reed College. He is a member of the Advisory Committee for ABET accreditation to the Renewable Energy Engineering program at the Oregon Institute of Technology as well as serving on the Science Industry Advisory Council to Portland State University. Mr. Lei holds a doctorate in Environmental Health Sciences specializing in Radiation Hygiene from New York University, as well as degrees from Oregon State University and Oberlin College. Since 1986, he has been certified in the comprehensive practice of Health Physics by the American Board of Health Physics. Wayne has two college age children and resides in Portland with his wife Mary.

Marjorie Lowe
Higher Education Policy Advisor to the Governor
State of Oregon

 

Tim McCabe
Director
Business Oregon

Tim McCabe has been the agency director for Oregon Business Development Department (Business Oregon) since May 2008, coming to lead the agency through its most recent realignment effort. Tim’s credibility as an economic development professional and his history as the Governor’s Economic Development Policy Advisor changed the reputation of the agency internally and externally. Tim’s vision of partnership has allowed the agency to be innovative in the way it approaches serving Oregon’s businesses across the state to retain existing jobs and create new family wage jobs for Oregonians. Almost every business development strategy the agency currently deploys can be tied to another economic development partner—a testament to Tim’s commitment to delivering the most effective and cost-efficient services possible.  Tim came to Business Oregon after serving as Governor Kulongoski’s Senior Economic Development Policy Advisor for more than two years. While in this capacity, Tim led the effort to shape the clean-technology business recruitment strategy responsible for Oregon’s growth and recognition in this industry sector. Prior to that position, Tim worked for Pacific Power for 10 years as manager of the economic development department.  Tim currently serves on the Governor’s Oregon Way Advisory Committee and is a member of the Oregon Innovation Council. He is also a past president of the Oregon Economic Development Association (OEDA), where in September 2006 he was honored by OEDA as its Economic Development Leader of the Year.   Tim is a proud graduate of the University of Oregon – GO DUCKS!

Dennis McNannay
Executive Director
Oregon Bioscience Association

Dennis McNannay has over twenty five years of successful management experience most recently as the Executive Director of the Oregon Bioscience Association (OBA). For the seven years prior joining the OBA, he co-founded CrossCurrent Inc., the leading provider of surgical planning and revenue management software for the neuro, spine and general orthopedic markets. During this period Dennis worked closely with various medical implant device companies (Medtronic, Styker, Nuvasive, etc.) and the financial and regulatory challenges they face. Prior to founding CrossCurrent, Dennis served as CEO and founder of InfiniteInk. Created in 1995, InfiniteInk was eventually acquired by InterTrust before it was subsequently acquired by Sony/Philips for $245 million. InfiniteInk created the first secure publishing technology based on the emerging Java programming language. InfiniteInk’s patented technology leveraged a unique combination of text encryption and tokenized word compression to create a platform for securely publishing and distributing technical documents. Portions of InfiniteInk’s technical solution were eventually licensed to Adobe, Inc. and distributed to over 80 million desktop users. Before founding InfiniteInk, Dennis served as the Vice President of Product Management with DataPak Software and managed their portfolio of third party software development tools. During his tenure with DataPak, he licensed technology to Apple Computer, US West, Crystal Reports, America Online, and other Fortune 500 companies. Dennis is a graduate of Portland State University where he attained a Bachelor of Business Administration (Finance). While attending PSU he also served as Student Body President and actively lobbied the State Board of Higher Education to allocate to expand Portland State University’s slate of graduate programs.

Jim Moreland, Ph.D.
Vice President of Technology
SolarWorld Industries America

After completing his degree in chemistry and crystallography, Jim Moreland started his career at Rockwell International and Honeywell Corporation, working in quality and process development for integrated circuits. He was the first employee hired by Wacker Siltronic Corporation in Portland Oregon, one of the largest semiconductor silicon producers in the world. His role as Director of Quality included leadership of the quality groups, analytical laboratories, process engineering, and applications engineering. After 20 years in Portland, he took the position of V.P. Research and Development for Siltronic AG in Burghausen, Germany for 5 years. Upon returning to Portland, he took the role of V.P. Strategic Technology Development. From 2005 until 2009, he worked for Komatsu Silicon America, another high quality silicon supplier. In 2009, he joined SolarWorld as Vice President of Technology, responsible for Quality and Research and Development. Jim has been on the Board of Directors for the Oregon Quality Initiative, the Advisory Council for the Department of Physics for PSU, the Microelectronic Technology Advisory Committee for PCC, the Governor’s Advisory Committee for OCATE, and the Semiconductor Materials and Devices Consortium and the Solid State Physics Advisory Committee for OGI.

Robert "Skip" Rung
President & Executive Director
Oregon Nanoscience & Microtechnologies Institute

Robert Rung is the President and Executive Director of Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute.  Mr. Rung is a senior high technology R&D executive with over 25 years of R&D management experience in CMOS process technology, application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design and electronic design automation (EDA), IC packaging, MEMS, microfluidics, and inkjet printing.  Until his retirement in 2001, he served as Director of Advanced Research for the Imaging and Printing Technology Platforms business at Hewlett-Packard’s Corvallis, OR facility.  Mr. Rung was asked in December 2003 to lead Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI), Oregon’s first “Signature Research Center” and an unprecedented collaboration among Oregon’s research universities and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. ONAMI’s dual mission is to grow “small tech” research in Oregon and commercialize technology in order to extend the success of Oregon’s world-leading “Silicon Forest” technology cluster, which includes the most advanced R&D and manufacturing operations for leading companies such as Intel Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, FEI Company, Invitrogen, Electro Scientific Industries, Planar Systems, Xerox Office Products, Tektronix, ON Semiconductor and many dynamic smaller firms.  ONAMI has so far received $42M in state investment and approximately tripled Oregon’s annual federal and private research awards in the fields of nanolaminates and transparent/printed electronics, green nanotechnology, nanoscale metrology, and microtechnology-based energy and chemical systems (MECS).  The ONAMI gap fund has helped launch or enable over 15 new startup companies since late 2006.

Bruce Schafer
Director of Industry Affairs, Chancellor's Office
Oregon University System

Bruce Schafer received an M.S.E.E. degree in Computer Science from the University of California. For approximately seven years he was an engineer and a manager at Intel Corporation where he became heavily involved in the development and marketing of Intel's real-time operating systems. In late 1982 Bruce founded Multisoft Corporation. Starting in 1986 Multisoft specialized in creating and marketing operating-system-enhancement software including the award-winning Super PC-Kwik disk cache. Multisoft was identified as number 183 in Inc. Magazine's 1990 listing of the 500 fastest growing U.S. private companies. In 1992 Multisoft changed its name to PC-Kwik Corporation to better align its identity with the widespread acceptance of its PC-Kwik family of products. In 1995 PC-Kwik became a subsidiary of Micro Design International. Bruce served as General Manager of this subsidiary until he resigned in March 1997.  From 1992 through 1996 Bruce served on the Board of the Software Association of Oregon (SAO), including a term as President in 1994. He has served as Chair of the SAO's Education Committee, Chair of the Master in Software Engineering Council, and Vice-Chair of the Oregon Engineering and Technology Industry Council. During 1997, Bruce served as an adjunct instructor for Oregon Graduate Institute, Oregon Institute of Technology, and Portland State University. From January 1998 to June 1999, Bruce served as the Interim Director of the Master of Software Engineering Program. In 1998 Bruce was awarded a US patent as co-inventor of caching techniques for optical storage.  In 2001 Bruce led the committee that brought FIRST LEGO League to Oregon as the Oregon Robotics Tournament & Outreach Program.  This program has grown to one of the largest engineering outreach programs in the country with teams at all grade levels throughout Oregon.  Since July 1999, Bruce has been Director of Industry Affairs in the Chancellor's Office of the Oregon University System. Since July 2001, Bruce has also served as the Executive Director of the Engineering & Technology Industry Council.   In this capacity he facilitates the planning, advocacy and oversight for engineering, computer science, and material science programs throughout Oregon’s public university system.   In 2005 Bruce worked with a team from the public and private sectors to create the Oregon Pre-engineering & Applied Science Initiative (OPAS).  He is currently the chair of the OPAS Steering Committee.  In recent years, Bruce has played key roles in developing strategic plans for growing professional science masters programs and applied baccalaureate programs in Oregon.

John Tortorici
Executive Director
Oregon Bioscience Association

John Tortorici has over thirty years of successful management experience most recently as the Executive Director of the Oregon Bioscience Association. For two years, until February 2007 he had been President of the Software Association of Oregon.  For the three years prior to its acquisition by WebMD in 2003, he had been a VP at WellMed Inc, with roles including Operations, Marketing and Strategic Business Affairs.  Prior to joining WellMed in 2000 John was VP and GM of the Blood Bank Division of Mediware Information Systems Inc. (NASDAQ MEDW) a health information systems company which had acquired John’s company in 1998.  Since its inception in 1980 John had been founder Chairman and CEO of Informedics, Inc, (formerly known as Western Star, Inc.).  Informedics provided medical laboratory software to healthcare customers in six countries.  The Company completed an IPO in 1983 and made three strategic acquisitions before merging with Mediware.  John’s career in IT dates back to the seventies with Burroughs Corporation where, as an Account Manager in San Francisco, he headed a team of professionals who sold and serviced mainframe computers.  He then moved to Raytheon Data Systems as the Western Regional Manager and, prior to founding Western Star, John was the Bay Area Manager for Durango Systems, Inc. a manufacturer and distributor of business computers.  John is a graduate of Adelphi University of Garden City, NY where he attained a Bachelor of Business Administration. He is a former Naval Officer and decorated Vietnam veteran.

Gerald Witt
Senior Scientist
The Aerospace Corporation

Dr. Witt is a Senior Scientist (part time) with the Aerospace Corp., serving both the Washington, DC and Los Angeles operations.  He is an Adjunct in Physics at Portland State University and a consultant to the South Carolina Research Authority.   His training is in both engineering (B.S., Eng. Physics; U of Illinois) and science (Ph.D., Physics; U of CA/Berkeley); he has worked across the boundary between those disciplines for 30 years.   From 1980 to 2006 he managed basic research in physics and electronics for the US Air Force (AFRL/AFOSR).  He served in academia from 1965 to 1980, 8 years as Physics Department Chair.  He was a NSF Senior Postdoctoral Fellow in 1964-65, working under Prof. Pierre de Gennes at the Université de Paris (Orsay).  Dr. Witt is a Senior Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Life Fellow of IEEE.  He received the Outstanding Civilian Career Service Award from the U.S. Air Force.  In 2006, both Gerald and his wife retired from the federal government, moving to downtown Portland, Oregon.   Here, they are active as volunteers in such organizations as The Nature Conservancy, the Museum of Contemporary Crafts and the SMART reading program.

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Oregon Business Association