VentureLab - Entrepreneurial Advisory Board
The Entrepreneurial Advisory Board consists of successful entrepreneurs and investors who help guide VentureLab’s services and products. Current membership includes:
Barbara D. Boyan, Ph.D.
Barbara Boyan is a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia where she holds the Price Gilbert, Jr. Chair in Tissue Engineering. She is also a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and deputy director of research at the Georgia Tech-Emory University Center for the Engineering of Living Tissue.
In 1993, she co-founded OsteoBiologics, Inc. (San Antonio, Texas) to develop tissue engineered medical products for treatment of bone and cartilage defects. The first generation of these products is now approved for use clinically both in the United States and Europe. Boyan is also founder of Biomedical Development Corporation in San Antonio, Texas and Orthonics, Inc. in Atlanta and is a member of the board of directors of Arthrocare, Inc. The author of more than 320 peer-reviewed papers, reviews, and book chapters, she holds eight U.S. and international patents.
Steve W. Chaddick
Steve W. Chaddick is managing partner of Ridgewood Advisors, LLC., which was founded in 2004 as a vehicle for angel investing, nurturing the community of emerging technology companies in the Atlanta area, and facilitating technology commercialization.
He has held numerous positions with the CIENA Corp, serving as senior vice president and Chief Strategy Officer; senior vice president, Systems and Technology; president of the company’s Core Switching Division, and senior vice president, strategy and corporate development. Chaddick has more than 30 years of experience in the telecom and related industries and has served on the board of directors of the Optical Internetworking Forum and Terabit Technology, and currently serves on the boards of Vistascape Security Systems and Asankya Networks.
He is an active volunteer in the Georgia Tech community, serving on the Georgia Tech Advisory Board, the advisory board of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Georgia Tech Research Corporation Board. He is also a trustee of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association and an advisor to the Georgia Tech Venture Lab. He endowed the Steve W. Chaddick Chair in Electro-Optics in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, held by National Medal of Technology recipient Russell Dupuis, and the ECE School Chair, held by Gary May.
Chaddick received B.S. (highest honor) and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is a member of the Georgia Tech Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni.
I. Sigmund Mosley, Jr.
I. Sigmund Mosley, Jr. is president of Imlay Investments, Inc., the personal investment company of John P. Imlay, Jr. He joined Management Science America, Inc. (now Dun & Bradstreet Software Services, Inc.) in 1969 as a staff accountant and served as secretary-treasurer from 1972 to 1990 and was a vice president from 1982 to 1991.
Mosley is also a director of The Imlay Foundation, Inc., Techbridge, Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures (GATV) and the Entrepreneurs Foundation of the Southeast. He serves on the board of directors of the following private companies: Ardext Technologies, Inc.; Bancintelligence; Contract Packaging, Inc.; eQuorum Corporation; Rotunda Corporation; Kelly Registration, Inc.; MCF Systems, Inc.; Photobooks, Inc.; USBA Holdings, Inc., and Vocalocity.
Mosley holds a bachelor of business administration degree from Emory University.
Marie C. Thursby
Marie Thursby is professor of strategic management and holds the Hal and John Smith Chair in Entrepreneurship at the College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as an adjunct professorship in Economics at Emory University. Before joining Georgia Tech, Thursby had been a member of Purdue University’s economics faculty since 1988 and held the Burton D. Morgan Chair of International Policy and Management.
She is the founding director of a new graduate certificate program at Georgia Tech and Emory University called Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (TI:GER sm). Designed for doctoral students in science, engineering, and management and MBA students from Georgia Tech, as well as JD and doctoral students in law and economics from Emory, the program connects integrated research in diverse technology fields with the business, legal, and organizational issues important for understanding commercialization of fundamental research. The program is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Alan and Mildred Peterson Foundation, and Hal and John Smith.
Thursby has published extensively on the economics of innovation, with particular emphasis on the industrial impact of university research, international R&D competition, and optimal license strategies. She received her A.B., cum laude, in economics from Mount Holyoke College and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.