Gordon Hoffman
Professional highlights - University technology commercialization; serial entrepreneurship (software and semiconductor); senior management in public technology companies; board memberships in private and public companies, non-profits; business and technical consulting
Education—MSEE, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; BSEE Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Affiliations & Activities - Current
- Oregon Innovation Council - technical advisor
- ONAMI - commercialization advisor
- Knapp Entrepreneurial Center (IIT) - advisory board member
- Entrepreneur-in-residence at the OBI
- Public speaker on societal issues of technology
Affiliations & Activities - Past
- Founding member of the Colorado Advanced Technology Institute
- Locally: member of the PSU Foundation board (7 years), Saturday Academy board (7 years)
- Numerous invited presentations at major technology conferences and workshops, domestic and foreign
- Ethics and commercialization contractor for Providence St. Vincent's Hospital
- Investment consultant to major venture capital firms
- Lecturer at numerous, local MBA programs
- Holder of three patents
William (Bill) Newman
Professional highlights - venture capital; inventor and founder of University-based technology spinout; research scientist at Harvard-MIT Div Health Sciences and Technology; board memberships of private venture-backed companies and non-profits; business and technology consulting and analysis; four patents in medical instrumentation; publications in business and technical journals spanning 30 years
Education - MBA, MIT's Sloan School of Management; Ph.D., Université Polytechnique, Grenoble FR; University of Notre Dame, MS; and Northeastern Univ, BS, all in Mechanical Engineering
Activities and Affiliations - Current
- Oregon Innovation Council - technical advisor
- ONAMI - commercialization advisor
- OHSU - review board, Biomedical Innovation Program
- Entrepreneur-in-residence at the OBI
- Member, Executive Committee of the Oregon Bioscience Association since 2005, including two-year term as Board Chair
Member, OHSU Bioinformatics Advisory Board
- Adjunct Faculty, Portland State University School of Business Administration
Activites and Affiliations - Past
- Member, University of Portland Bioscience Management Advisory Board
- Founding member, Providence Hospital System Technology Transfer Committee
- Research leading to patented technology and formation of a medical device spinout while at MIT, and later securing more than $2 million in funding via SBIR and STTR grants and contracts
- Multiple invited presentations and articles for professional and industry audiences at conferences, seminars, and workshops; lecturer and adjunct faculty at institutions including PSU, UO, OSU, OHSU, UP, Reed and Concordia
