At Advanced Technology Group LLC our core competence is
the accelerated commercialization of innovative and high-risk R&D.
This is a competence built upon the twin
foundations of technical expertise gained during 90-plus years of active
research and development work, and the broad understanding of strategies for
the rapid commercialization of innovative technologies developed during 15-plus
years of combined service to the NIST Advanced Technology Program, and
successfully implemented during the past 4 years as prinicpals of
ATG. We know what works and what doesn’t, and we know why. As
a small enterprise, we can afford to treat each client as a partner. We
will work with you to leverage our passion and expertise in technology and
technology management to provide your enterprise significant value.
Whether you are a technology start up or an
established R&D firm, we can work with you to:
Assess
the competitive strengths and weaknesses of your technology.
Analyze
potential market opportunities and threats.
Establish
an aggressive R&D plan that will maximize your R&D effectiveness.
Align
your R&D priorities with your strategic plan, and establish a balanced
R&D portfolio.
Create
a coherent plan for accelerated market entry.
Identify
federal and state funding opportunities and secure government R&D
grants.
Identify
appropriate alliance partners to enhance your R&D and
commercialization activities.
In a broader context we can
partner with you to:
Develop
R&D and technology investment strategies that will enable you to
create/sustain competitive advantage as technology and regulatory
landscapes change.
See
how emerging technologies are influencing the re-structuring of
traditional value chains, and how to position your technology so as to
capture maximum value.
Understand
how to accelerate emerging and bridging technologies so as to capture
early market opportunities.
For state and regional
agencies focusing on technologies for regional economic development, we can
help you by:
Providing
technology and business assessments of potential funding candidates,
including on-site due diligence to answer the questions: Is this the right
technology? Is this the right team, and do they have all the resources
they need? Do they have a viable plan to take this to market and be
a success?
Establishing
synergistic technology partnerships for regional economic growth.
For the venture capital
investment community, we can provide a range of due diligence services,
including:
Critical,
third-party assessment of the technology, market opportunities, and R&D
and commercialization plans. We can answer the questions: Is this a
competitive technology? Is it feasible? Is this the right
technical team? Is there a credible pathway into the market?
Due
diligence at the site-visit stage. Do they have the hardware and
know how to pull this off. Are their staff and facilities adequate
for the job at hand? Are they up to code? Is there a problem
looming downstream?
Representation
at project reviews and board meetings to ensure that technological
objectives are being met and are aligned with current market needs.
Identification
and acquisition of additional Federal and state funding for clients’
R&D needs—for when you want to diversify your portfolio but cannot
justify the risk, or need additional funding to capture benefits offered
by a high-risk spin-off activity.
Introductions
to our corporate partners, which we can pre-certify as outstanding
investment opportunities when you are looking for new investment
opportunities?
ATG Principals
Stanley Abramowitz
Professional Objective
To participate in our
nation’s R&D efforts by helping to develop methodologies and strategies to
identify emerging technologies and their possible application to areas
including biotechnology, chemical processing, and environmental modeling. These
include but are not limited to nano and micro technologies, microfluidics,
combinatorial methodologies, and genomic analysis.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Physical Chemistry, The
Polytechnic University (Nov. 1962)
Development
of methodologies to study band contours of infrared transitions in liquids and
solutions. The explanation of the deviation of these observed contours from
those expected by intramolecular and intermolecular effects including Fermi
resonances, hot bands and isotope effects.
Employment
1993-2000 Program Manager,
NIST Advanced Technology Program
Developed long range planning for focused
programs including Tools for DNA Diagnostics and Tissue Engineering.
These focused programs had a total of four competitions in the years
1994-1998. Developed liaisons to other federal agencies including NIH,
DOE, FDA, and NSF to assist in selecting those projects suitable for
funding. These personnel were also used in evaluating the progress of
funded projects and formulating the white papers for the focused
competitions.
Served as a Federal program manager responsible
for more than 30 innovative industry led R&D projects in the areas
of DNA analysis, micro and nanotechnologies, chemistry and chemical
processing representing a total R&D investment of approximately $300
million.
Chaired FY94, FY95, FY98 focused competitions
in Tools for DNA diagnostics and FY97 competition in Tissue Engineering.
Participated in general competitions in the FY92, FY93, FY96, FY99, and
FY00 competitions. Served as Technical Chair in the FY93 general
competition.
Organized workshops in Biotechnology held in
1993 to develop industry interest in the various areas of biotechnology
and assist the NIST Advanced Technology Program in developing
focused programs in those technologies that showed the most interest by
industry.
Organized two workshops to showcase the
accomplishments of the Tools for DNA Diagnostics focused program. The
most recent was a three day workshop held at the National Meeting in San
Jose, CA in November, 1999.
Served as liaison to other federal agencies
including DARPA, NIH, DOE and FDA in the area of DNA analysis and the
use of micro and nanotechnologies for DNA analysis. Served on selection
boards at these agencies for selecting projects for funding.
Gave invited talks at a variety of scientific
and technical meetings including those sponsored by CHI and IBC in areas
of including nanotechnology and DNA analysis and served as a scientific
and technology advisor for the selection of speakers and topic areas for
these meetings.
1995-2000 Board of Governors,
BIRD Foundation
The BIRD Foundation was founded by the U.S. and
Israeli governments to support industrial collaborative reserch
involving Israeli and U.S. entities. Chairman of the Board of
Governmors in 1995, 1997, and 1999; Vice Chairman in 1996, 1998, and
2000.
1991-1993 Group Leader, NIST
Biotechnology Division
Developed programs in biothermodynamics,
biophysics and biophysics. Hired necessary personnel and evaluated their
research.
1981-1991 Division Chief,
NBS/NIST Chemical Thermodynamics Division
Developed programs in experimental chemical
thermodynamics and data evaluations in many areas including oxygen and
fluorine bomb calorimetery, differential scanning calorimetry,
microcalorimetry, heat capacity measurements, solution calorimetry,
biocalorimetry, evaluated data compilations of chemical thermodynamics
data including JANAF tables and Selected Thermodynamic of the Elements
and Their Compounds. Developed and administered programs for other
federal agencies including DOE, DNA (Defense Nuclear Agency), Air Force
and DOD. Administered programs for the development of Standard Reference
Materials for the use of industry, government and academia.
1987-1988 Program Analyst, NSF
Chemistry Division
Served as program analyst in the Physical
Chemistry area with particular emphasis on molecular spectroscopy,
energy transfer dynamics and chemical thermodynamics.
1983-1985 Program Analyst,
Program Office of the Director of NIST (then NBS)
Advised the director of NBS in a number of technology
areas in chemistry, physics and the emerging biotechnology. Served as
liaison to other federal agencies including OSTP, NASA, Congress and the
Commerce Department.
1964-1981 Research Chemist,
NIST (then NBS)
Performed original research in the areas of
molecular spectroscopy and vibration analysis of small molecules, force
fields, high temperature chemistry, Raman gas phase spectroscopy, low
temperature matrix isolation of high temperature refractory species, and
the time resolved spectra of exploding wires in a variety of gases
funded in part by AFOSR, DOE, and DNA.
1962-1964 National Academy of
Sciences National Research Council Research Associate, NIST (then NBS)
Performed research on the infrared band contours
of low temperature model solutions in order to understand the mechanisms
involved in determining the shapes and breadth of dilute solutions of
simple molecules in model solvents including liquid noble gases, oxygen
and nitrogen.
Meetings and Publications
Convenor of
workshops in Biotechnology and Tools for DNA Diagnostics as discussed above.
Author/co-author of
approximately 75 publications in refereed journals and over 100 invited and
contributed presentations at topical, national and international conferences.
Towards Inexpensive DNA Diagnostics, Trends in
Biotech. 14, 397-401 (1996).
DNA Analysis in Microfabricated Formats, J.
Biomedical Microdevices 1, 107-112 (1999).
David S. King
Professional Objective
To contribute to the
health and vitality of our nation’s R&D enterprise by developing strategies
to identify and exploit emerging technologies that can be foci for the
stimulation of American competitiveness and economic growth, and
promoting new approaches to the management of innovation and change.
Education
Executive Masters of Science and Engineering in
the Management of Technology, The University of Pennsylvania (May 1997).
A
joint program between The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and The
Wharton School of Business that focuses on the management of emerging
technologies—including business development and leadership issues.
Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Physics, The
University of Pennsylvania (Aug 1976).
Development
and application of laser-based diagnostics to a variety of chemical and
spectroscopic problems in molecular crystals.
Employment
Sept 2000 -
Science Advisor, Office of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology
Advise on national technology programs and
policy related to economic growth.
Assist in planning Physics Laboratory programs
by collecting and analyzing information on technology developments and
industry change.
Contribute to institute-wide strategic planning
initiatives by working with industry leaders, professional associations,
and academicians to evaluate industry R&D trends and technology
needs.
Communicate the Laboratory's technical
activities to improve technology transfer and the development of
cooperative programs.
1994 - 1999 Program
Manager, NIST Advanced Technology Program,
Develop long-range program planning strategies
and continuous improvement processes for the program’s internal
activities - including internal requirements for project management and
training for proposal reviewers and Source Evaluation Board members.
Serve as Federal project manager responsible
for 25 innovative, industry-led R&D projects in areas of chemistry
and physics - from fish farming to computational molecular dynamics for
drug discovery and catalyst development - representing a total R&D
investment of nearly $125 million.
Develop a focused program in separations,
including the organization of three national workshops and authorship of
"Selective-Membrane Platforms" – forming the foundation of a
FY98 focused program solicitation.
Chair the FY95 and FY96 General
Competitions - with primary responsibility for managing selection boards
of 20 to 40 technical and business professionals, evaluating an average
of $800 million in R&D requests, and making funding recommendations;
Chair the FY98 "Selective-Membrane Platforms" and the FY99
General (Materials and Chemistry sub-board) Competitions; serve as
Selection Official for FY97 competitions in "Tissue
Engineering," "Component Based Software," and "Motor
Vehicle Manufacturing;" serve as Technical Sponsor in the FY94
General and as Business Sponsor in the FY00 General (Biotechnology
sub-board) Competitions.
1976 - 1994 Research
Chemist, NIST Physics laboratory,
Lead an aggressive research program aimed at a
basic understanding of energy flow and chemical reactivity in high
energy density materials, in bimolecular collisions and small molecular
clusters, and at metal interfaces (funded in part by AFOSR, ARO, and
DOE).
Meetings and Publications
Co-Convener for Combinatorial Materials
Science: A National Dialogue (2000) and Combinatorial
Methodologies: A Technology Vision 2020 Roadmapping Workshop (2000);
author of the white paper "Combinatorial Methodologies: New Tools
for the Chemicals and Materials Industries."
Convener for Water Supply and Security: A
Third Decade Challenge (1999).
Convener for Separating Agents: Green
Processes and High Performance Products (1996) and Selective
Membrane Platforms: Putting Membranes to Work for the Specialty Chemicals
Industry (1997); author/co-author of two industry-led white papers
related to chemicals separation technology.
Co-Chair of the 1993 Gordon Research
Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer.
Founder of "SURFing the Physics Lab: A
NIST/NSF Partnership for AMO Physics," an innovative program to
train women and minority members of our nation's next generation of
scientists and engineers in emerging technology areas (currently funded
as an REU within the NSF MPS Directorate).
Author/co-author of two monographs,
approximately 90 publications in refereed journals, and over 100 invited
presentations at topical, national and international conferences.
Selected publications include:
Product kinetic energies, correlations, and
scattering anisotropy in the bimolecular reaction O(1D) + H2O
--> 2 OH, D.S. King, D.G. Sauder, M.P. Casassa, J. Chem. Phys. 97,
5919-22 (1992);
Fragment energy and vector correlations in the
overtone-pumped dissociation of HN3 X1A', M.P.
Casassa, B.R. Foy, J.C. Stephenson, and D.S. King, J. Chem. Phys. 94,
250 (1991);
Surface state mediated photochemistry:
Laser-induced desorption of NO from Si(111), L.J. Richter, S.A. Buntin,
D.S. King, and R.R. Cavanagh, Phys. Rev. Letters 65, 1957 (1990);
Molecular desorption from solid surfaces: Laser
diagnostics and chemical dynamics, D.S. King and R.R. Cavanagh, in Molecule
Surface Interactions, K. Lawley, ed., Advances in Chemical Physics
(Wiley, 1989);
The two-photon induced fluorescence of the
tumor localizing photosensitizer hematoporphyrin derivative via 1064 nm
photons from a 20 ns Q-switched ND-YAG laser, R.S.Bodaness and D.S.King,
Biochem. Biophys. Research Commun. 126, 346 (1985).