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About Us
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Overview |
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The Girvan Institute of
Technology, established in 2002, is a non-profit, public benefit
corporation chartered to facilitate the transfer, development and
commercialization of technologies and to foster the growth of
early-stage high-tech companies. Girvan strives to put technologies to
work and to get companies from where they are to where they want to be.
The Institute works to:
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Help launch high-tech companies. One of the
Institute's key components is providing assistance and technology for
early stage high-tech companies; |
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Transfer and commercialize innovative technologies.
The Institute works to affect such transfers from larger R&D
organizations at universities, government labs, and corporate labs to
the industrial-commercial sector. The Institute also helps larger
companies find technologies with which to strengthen their businesses; |
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Structure and assemble
independent panels of experts to perform and issue “IP review and
commercialization” assessments regarding certain technologies and/or
companies provided by, and at the request of, larger organizations |
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Introduce companies to sources of capital. The
Institute has excellent connections within both the Angel and Venture
Capital community and has successfully introduced companies to new
sources of capital; |
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Provide office space to early stage companies. The
Institute has office space available to companies in both Silicon Valley
and Los Angeles; |
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Showcase new technologies. The Institute regularly
hosts technology showcases focused on various industry sectors to
promote and support the commercialization of up-and-coming technologies
and start-up companies |
Facilities
In connection with our
venture-accelerator activities, the Institute operates two facilities in
California. Each facility with modern, fully furnished offices,
conference rooms, an auditorium, light (dry) laboratory space, and a
kitchen.
The Northern California facility is
located in Santa Clara, which is in the heart of Silicon Valley. This
facility is immediately adjacent to the main campuses of Intel, Yahoo!
and Sun Microsystems.
Girvan opened its Southern California
venture-accelerator facility in September 2005. The facility, located
adjacent to the Los Angeles International Airport in the city of El
Segundo, sits at the center of the Los Angeles aerospace and defense
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History |
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Girvan initiated
operations in March 2002. Its first undertaking was to assist NASA's
Ames Research Center to transfer and commercialize technologies
developed at the center. In parallel with this effort, the Institute
also developed and honed capabilities to support early-stage high-tech
companies engaged in commercialization efforts and undertook
tech-transfer work with other large R&D organizations.
At March 1, 2008, there were 67
companies within Girvan's affiliate program,37 resident affiliates in
Silicon Valley, 20 resident affiliates in Los Angeles and 10
non-resident / international affiliates.
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Board of Directors |
 Roy Doumani
Professor of Molecular and
Medical Pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Roy Doumani is Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at the
David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA). He is a member of the Advisory and Oversight Board of
the California NanoSystems Institute, which has facilities at UCLA and
UC Santa Barbara and a member of the External Advisory Board of the
Nanosystems Biology Cancer Center at the California Institute of
Technology (Cal Tech). He has been involved in the formation,
capitalization, and operation of a number of businesses, including
companies in software (health services & offshore computer
programmers), biotech (prostate cancer research), finance, and
technology.
Doumani is active in the development and ownership of industrial and
commercial real estate, and is currently a partner in The Hills, a
5,000-home residential development in New Jersey with sales in excess of
$1.5 billion. He is a venture partner at Fulcrum Venture Management,
LLC. He also has business interests in Asia and holds an equity position
in the first joint-venture bank in the PRC, Xiamen International Bank
(XIB), of which he serves as vice chairman. Doumani has been engaged
with numerous financial institutions. He is founder and former director
of First Los Angeles Bank and has served as chairman of First Interstate
Bank of Hawaii, director of HonFed Bank, and chairman of World Trade
Bank in Los Angeles. He is a former board member and advisor to
companies in the United States, Asia and Europe, including CTI (CTMI,
NASDAQ), where he served as vice chairman.
In addition to his business interests, Doumani sits on the advisory
boards of RAND's Center for Middle East Public Policy and its Center for
Asia Pacific Policy. He is a member of the UCLA Board of Governors, the
UCLA Foundation and serves on the Foundation's investment committee. He
has established two endowed chairs at UCLA, one in the Department of
Bioengineering and one in the Department of Urological Oncology.
Doumani earned his bachelor's degree in business and finance at the
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and his J.D. at the
University of Southern California.
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 Paul Coleman
Chairman, ex-officio President, Girvan Institute
Paul J. Coleman, Jr. is an emeritus professor of space physics at the University of California at Los Angeles.
He holds B.S. Engineering
degrees in mathematics and physics, an M.S. degree in physics, and a
Ph.D. in space physics. He served two years as a commissioned officer in
the United States Air Force, with duty in Europe, South Korea, and the
Middle East (1954-1956).
His early professional
experience includes positions at the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation (now
TRW Systems) and at the headquarters of the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration in Washington, D.C., as manager of NASA's
interplanetary sciences program.
In 1966, he joined the
faculty at UCLA. There, with Dr. T.A. Farley, he established a
laboratory for research in space physics. In the course of his research
on charged particles and electric and magnetic fields in space, he has
worked with the Explorer, OGO and ATS series of earth satellites, the
Pioneer series of deep-space probes, the Mariner series of planetary
spacecraft, Apollo's 15 and 17, and Galileo. He has written or
collaborated in writing more than 150 articles on research in the space
sciences and developments in space technology.
In 1970, NASA awarded Dr. Coleman its Exceptional Scientific
Achievement Medal for his contributions to the exploration of the solar
system. In 1972, he was awarded a second of these medals for his
contributions to the exploration of the moon. In 1975, he was elected to
the International Academy of Astronautics. During 1975-76, he was a
John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and a Senior Fulbright Scholar.
In 1985, Dr. Coleman was
appointed by President Reagan to the National Commission on Space. In
1991, he was appointed by Vice President Quayle to the Space Policy
Advisory Board.
Professor Coleman's
career includes positions as president and chief executive officer of
the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), a non-profit
corporation owned by eighty-three universities and chartered to
facilitate scientific research, technology development, and education in
space-related fields of endeavor; assistant director of the laboratory
and served concurrently as manager of the Earth and Space Sciences
Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory; director of the Institute of
Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UCLA; and director of the National
Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC), which is operated by
the University of California for the U. S. Department of Energy.
Also in public service,
Dr. Coleman is a former chairman of American Technology Alliances, Inc.,
a former trustee of the Universities Space Research Association and a
founding member and a former chairman of the oversight committee for the
San Diego Supercomputer Center. He was a founding member of the
steering committee for the California Space Institute. He has also
served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Los
Alamos National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, a trustee of the International Small Satellite Organization,
a director of the National Institute for Space Commercialization, and
as a member of the National Advisory Committee of the School of
Engineering at the University of Michigan. In addition, he is a
consultant to the Federal government on research and development.
In the private sector,
Dr. Coleman is a consultant to industry on research and development and
to the financial community on high-technology enterprise. He is a
director of Axcess, Inc., Biocentric Solutions, Inc., and Knowledge
Vector (formerly Topic Radio). He is a former director of CACI
International, Inc.; Fairchild Space and Defense Corporation; One Room
Systems, Inc.; Southeast Interactive Technology Fund II; Scyld Computing
Corporation; Space Operations International, LLC, SOI Holdings, LLC;
and others. Also, he has served on the boards of scientific and
technical advisors of Orbital Sciences Corporation, Micro Satellite
Launch Systems, Inc., and others.
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 Dr. Henry McDonald
Chair of Excellence
Professor of Computational Engineering, University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga
Dr. Henry McDonald is a professor of computer science at the
University of Tennessee in Chattanooga and holder of the chair of
excellence in computational engineering in the Graduate School of
Computational Engineering. Prior to joining the faculty at the
University of Tennessee, he was director of the NASA Ames Research
Center.
Dr. McDonald's broad research interests include: information
technology, especially applications to artificial intelligence;
supercomputing especially applications to computational fluid dynamics:
and nanotechnology, especially applications to bio-medical science and
technology and information science and technology.
As an entrepreneur In the private sector, Dr. McDonald was founder,
president, and chief executive officer of Scientific Research
Associates, Inc., Glastonbury, Connecticut, and a co-founder of Advanced
Pulmonary Technologies, Inc., both based in Glastonbury, Connecticut.
In 1989, the latter company was selected as the Small Business of the
Year for High Technology by the State of Connecticut.
Professor McDonald is a member of the National Academy of Engineering
and the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows (UK). He holds a B. Sc. in
Engineering and a D.Sc. in Engineering from the University of Glasgow
in Scotland.
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Director Emeritus |
 Admiral Thomas B. Hayward (ret.)
Vice Chairman, Voyager Learning
Admiral Thomas B. Hayward is a co-founder of the Voyager Learning and
serves as its Vice Chairman. In July 1982, Admiral Thomas B. Hayward
retired from the United States Navy as Chief of Naval Operations after
40 years in uniform. His distinguished military career included
extensive combat in Korea and Vietnam as a carrier aviator, Commanding
Officer of the aircraft carrier USS America; Commander, United States
Seventh Fleet; and Commander in Chief of the United States Pacific Fleet
prior to his 1978 assignment as Chief of Naval Operations and a member
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Upon retirement, Adm. Hayward established Hayward Associates, a
consulting firm specializing in international business development. Adm.
Hayward has served on several boards of directors. He also serves as
vice chairman, Pacific Forum/CSIS; as a member of the U.S.-Japan
Leadership Council; as board member (former chairman) of the Ethics
Resource Center; and as a member of the National Advisory Board of the
Private Sector Council. He has also served as Chairman of the National
Security Advisory Council of Stanford Research Institute.
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