PortTechLA Team |
Organizers and SupportersCalifornia Institute of TechnologyClean Tech Los Angeles Los Angeles County Business Technology Center Los Angeles Regional Small Business Development Center Port of Los Angeles San Pedro Chamber of Commerce UCLA California NanoSystems Institute USC Stevens Institute for Innovation Wilmington Chamber of Commerce |
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The PortTechLA Team brings a broad spectrum of talents, experiences and connections to the table for PortTechLA clients and affiliates. Members of the Founding Board of Directors represent the Port of Los Angeles and the San Pedro and Wilmington Chambers of Commerce. Rounding out the Board are representatives from two of Los Angeles’ premier research universities, USC and UCLA, and from the Los Angeles County Business Technology Center.Board of DirectorsHerb Zimmer, Chairman, PortTechLA. Business owner in downtown San Pedro since 1979, Mr. Zimmer is a past president of the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce and current Chairman of the Board of PortTechLA. As a community activist, he has advocated and written about community development issues for several years, with the goal of making San Pedro a self-sufficient and sustainable community. He is the author of two White Papers which made the case for leveraging the Port of Los Angeles’ need for new environmental, clean energy, homeland security and logistics technologies to create a new “knowledge-worker” job base for harbor-adjacent communities. Mr. Zimmer holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics from Rutgers University; served as an Army Transportation Officer in Vietnam and worked in marketing with American Airlines prior to starting his own business.David Mathewson, Vice Chairman, PortTechLA and Director of Planning and Economic Development, Port of Los Angeles, one of the busiest, most successful seaports in the world. Mathewson manages the Port’s land uses through the Port Master Plan, maritime and trade research activities, determines cargo forecast data and evaluates socioeconomic impact analyses. He also manages the Port’s economic development activities, including commercial development opportunities along the waterfront, workforce development programs and clean technology commercialization efforts through the Port Tech Los Angeles. Aaron Tremaine, PhD, MBA, University of California, Los Angeles is the Director of Business Development at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA where he works with industry and investors to commercialize discoveries in energy, environment, medicine and information technology. Dr. Tremaine continues commercial driven research and has co-founded a start-up licensing technology from UCLA. He also consults on an SBIR grant from the Defense Department and continues research collaborations with his prior employer, Lawrence Livermore Labs, where he was the technical director of the Linear Accelerator Facility. He holds a PhD in physics from UCLA and an MBA from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. Dr. Richard Hull is the Senior Director of Innovation Advancement at the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation where his team focuses on start-up creation, strategic relationships with industry partners, and the development of the broader innovation ‘ecosystem’ to support these endeavors. Richard has over 20 years of experience in start-ups and entrepreneurial ventures from the perspectives of investor, owner, CEO and consultant, is active in a number of non-profit organizations, and holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Oxford University, and a B.A. in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University. Kevin Maggay, Interim Air Quality Supervisor of Environmental Management Division, Port of Los Angeles. Maggay’s responsibilities include managing, developing, and implementing air quality improvement programs regarding cargo movement. Air quality programs focus on port-related aspects of the operations logistical chain including heavy duty vehicles, cargo handling equipment, rail, harbor craft, and ocean going vessels, and are in support of the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan. He is also the Port Program Manager of the Technology Advancement Program which evaluates and demonstrates new and emerging technologies. Maggay recently became one of the Board of Directors for PortTechLA. Stan Tomsic, Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County (BTC) is the Administrator of the BTC, a project of the Community Development Commission of Los Angeles County. The BTC is an accelerator incubator for high technology, entrepreneurial companies that is dedicated to assisting start-ups and early stage technology firms to grow and prosper. For the past eight years, Stan has also been a partner of ACODA Technology & Investments, LLC, a firm specializing in strategic assistance, business consulting, investments and mergers and acquisitions, for technology and services companies. Pat Wilson, President, Wilmington Chamber of Commerce since 2004 and Treasurer and member of the Port Community Advisory Committee to the Port of Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners. Pat is the founder and president of Fast Lane Transportation, Inc., a company he founded in 1979. In 1988, the company moved to its current location with 50 acres for equipment storage, repair, sales and trucking services. Pat serves in various capacities on many community and nonprofit boards. Executive DirectorJeff Milanette, Executive Director, PortTechLA is a business incubation professional and management consultant specializing in developing, managing and analyzing incubation programs and new technology companies for a variety of public and private sector clients. He is the Executive Director of PortTechLA, a technology commercialization and incubation program sponsored by the San Pedro and Wilmington Chambers of Commerce, and the Port of Los Angeles. From 1989 to 1995, he was the Founder and President of the Rutgers Business Innovation Center and was an innovator in entrepreneur development programs while presiding over the New Jersey Entrepreneurs Forum, and through his activities supporting both the New Jersey Venture Fair, and the Russian Venture Fair. He has consulted to both the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the World Bank’s infoDev organization concerning the establishment of information and communication technology-focused (ICT) incubators in the Newly Independent States and Sub-Saharan Africa, respectively. Other incubation clients have included the City of Folsom, City of West Sacramento, and New Jersey City University’s Business Development Incubator (where he serves on the Advisory Board). An entrepreneur himself, Jeff was president of SpeakEZ, Inc., a university spin-off company commercializing speaker identification technology, and AuthX, Inc., a company with technology used to authenticate photo identification documents. He earned his MBA in finance from the George Washington University, and holds a BS, from the US Naval Academy.In addition to the Board of Directors, an Advisory Board brings expertise in business, government, the law, technology, commercialization, intellectual property, financing and other fields critical to emerging or established businesses. |
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