The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) Elects New Officers at 2019 National Meeting
WASHINGTON (PRWEB) May 02, 2019 -- The results are in! FLC members voted for elected officials at the national and regional levels during the 2019 FLC national meeting held April 23-25 in Orlando, Florida. Consortium Representatives who were unable to attend the national meeting were able to vote via absentee ballot from March 22 through April 16.
Each year, Consortium Representatives whose memberships are registered with the Consortium Recording Secretary have the opportunity to select elected officials at the national and regional levels. This year, FLC members voted for the Chair and Vice-Chair positions in addition to three Members-at-Large. Elections also took place for the Northeast, Southeast, and Mid-Continent regions.
The FLC Nominating Committee is pleased to announce the newly elected FLC national and regional officers, listed below. These officers will serve 2-year terms at the start of the new fiscal year beginning October 1, 2019. The FLC anticipates continued innovative success with these new officers as the organization continues its mission of promoting, educating, and facilitating technology transfer.
FLC Chair
John Dement, NSWC Crane
Vice-Chair
Jackie Kerby Moore, Sandia National Laboratories
Members-at-Large
Pallaoor Venkatesh (PV) Sundareshwar, U.S. Agency for International Development
John Kaplan, Department of Veterans Affairs
Ami Gadhia, National Center for Advanced Translational Sciences (NCATS)
Northeast Regional Co-Coordinators
Laurie Bagley, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
David Lee, U.S. Army CCDC Armaments Center
Northeast Deputy Regional Coordinator
David Pronchick, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Southeast Regional Coordinator
Paige George, NSWC Panama Division
Southeast Deputy Regional Coordinator
Benjamin Henry, Department of Veterans Affairs
Mid-Continent Regional Coordinator
John Eisemann, National Wildlife Research Center, USDA-ARS
Mid-Continent Deputy Regional Coordinator
David Kistin, Sandia National Laboratories
To learn more about each of these newly elected FLC officers, visit https://meeting.federallabs.org/2019-officers/.
About the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC)
Organized in 1974 and formally chartered by the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986, the FLC is a nationwide network of approximately 300 federal laboratories, centers, parent departments, and agencies that establishes strategies and opportunities for linking laboratory mission technologies and expertise with the marketplace. To accomplish its mission of assisting the movement of innovative federal research and development into the U.S. economy, the FLC provides various resources from training to regional and national meetings so its members can obtain the resources they need to achieve successful technology transfer. To learn more about the FLC and its mission, visit http://www.federallabs.org.
Denise Wainer, Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, https://www.federallabs.org, +1 (856) 667-6770 x170, [email protected]
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