Sponsored by Conner Strong Companies Inc.  

Sponsored by Invest in Denmark  

Special Event: Invitation-only breakfast roundtable featuring information and insight on business and partnership opportunities in Denmark.

For information on receiving an invitation to this exclusive event, contact Nathan Tinker, ntinker@nyba.org. 

Governor Howard Dean is a Senior Strategic Advisor and Independent Consultant for the Government Affairs practice at McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP. He focuses on health care and energy issues, as well as providing expertise derived from his extensive experience in public office. A recognized thought-leader in health care reform, Governor Dean works with clients to navigate complicated regulations and political challenges in both the private and public sectors. Through partnering industry with business and community interests he is at the forefront of promoting high quality and affordable health care while supporting innovation.

 

Keynote Address:

Super Bowl champion Jerome "The Bus" Bettis
Sponsored by: PhRMA 

Jerome Abram Bettis, nicknamed "The Bus" (born February 16, 1972 in Detroit, Michigan), is a former National Football League running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Bettis is considered one of the best big backs of his era, and is fifth on the league’s all-time rushing list. He retired in 2006 after a Super Bowl victory in which he ran for 43 yards on 14 attempts.

Ron Durando is a long time, successful entrepreneur. He has a background in both engineering and corporate finance. Ron has been Chief Operating Officer of Microphase since 1994. When he joined Microphase, he worked with founder Ned Ergul to revive the corporation and adjust both its mission and operating style to accommodate changes in the market. He was instrumental in turning around the company and has doubled its revenues during his tour as Chief Operating Officer. Ron started and successfully ran an RF Contract Manufacturing based in China in from August 1996 until December 2008. The company grew from 6 employees operating in 6500 sq feet to over 1000 employees at it’s peek in a 150,000 square foot facility. In October 1996 he founded mPhase Technologies, Inc. He has been its President and Chief Executive Officer since the company’s inception. Under Ron’s leadership mPhase produced and sold a very successful line of DSL components and he has now completed the transition of mPhase into a battery technology company that is now developing an innovative battery technology based upon breakthroughs in Microfludics and Nanotechnology.

Douglas Jamison is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and a Managing Director of Harris & Harris Group, Inc., a publicly traded venture capital company listed on the Nasdaq Global Market (NASDAQ: TINY).  Harris & Harris Group focuses solely in making initial investments in “tiny” technologies, which it defines as nanotechnology and microsystems.
He has previously held the positions of President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Harris & Harris Group, Inc.  He is also currently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Harris & Harris Enterprises, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Harris & Harris Group.  He is a member of the Board of Directors of Ancora Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and a Board observer in Mersana Therapeutics, Inc., Solazyme, Inc., Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc., and Metabolon, Inc., privately held nanotechnology-enabled portfolio companies of Harris & Harris Group.  He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of “Nanotechnology Law & Business.”  He is Co-Chair of the Advisory Board, Converging Technology Bar Association, a member of the University of Pennsylvania Nano-Bio Interface Ethics Advisory Board, and a member of the Advisory Board, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Nanotechnology Venture Forum.  Prior to joining Harris & Harris Group, he was a Senior Technology Manager at the University of Utah Technology Transfer Office, where he managed intellectual property in physics, chemistry and the engineering sciences.  He is a graduate of Dartmouth College (B.A., 1992) and the University of Utah (M.S., 1999).