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About | Team |
Dr. Matthew Laudon is President and Founding Chair of the Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Organization (CTSI), and Founder & Executive Director for Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI) in Cambridge, MA. Born in Austin TX, he obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and subsequently worked at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), Motorola in Los Alamos National Laboratories and numerous early stage companies in commercialization and partnership development. He has published over 30 technical publications and patents in topics ranging from nanotechnology, semiconductors and microsystems.
Dr. Laudon is the co-founder of the world’s largest nanotech community (NSTI) and multiple conference series, annually co-editing over 4000 pages of scientific and business research for the Nanotech (1998-2011) and Clean Technology (2006-2011), TechConnect (2006-2011) which all focus on a community concept of accelerating commercialization of emerging technology into business and society.
Dr. Bart Romanowicz is Chief Scientific Officer and Founder of the Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Organization (CTSI) and Founder and Executive Directory of Technology Development for the Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI) in Cambridge, MA. He received his M.S. and Sc.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, working in the Microsystems Institute. Dr. Romanowicz is an expert in matching technology capabilities with industrial needs for commercialization. He has served as a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an industrial and academic partner manager at the Microsystems firm Coventor and as technology team lead with the Boston based Axiowave Networks, Inc. and CFD Research Corporation.
Dr. Romanowicz has over 40 technical publications primarily in micro system design, is the author of Methodology for the Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems, Kluwer (1998), is the co-founder and chair of the Nanotech International Conference and Trade Show and is Managing Editor or Editor in Chief of two journals and two annuals in micro and nano technologies.
Sarah Wenning is Co-founder and Vice President of Operations for the Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Organization (CTSI), and Co-Founder of the Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI) in Cambridge, MA. Ms. Wenning obtained a B.A. with the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and has worked in operational management positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of California at Berkeley, Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and a variety of San Francisco Bay area biotechnology start-ups. She has worked with the NSTI since its founding in 1997. Ms. Wenning has 18+ years of meeting management and event planning experience, including directing operations for meetings ranging from 50 to as large as 8,000 attendees. She has planned meetings and events for non-profits, government agencies, government contractors, associations and corporations.
Laura Benold is Membership and Marketing Manager of the Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Organization (CTSI). Prior to joining CTSI, Benold worked as Marketing Associate at Austin Technology Incubator where she contributed to the development of start-up companies within the Austin area, the growth of a regional clean technology community, and national initiatives to partner funding groups with start-ups. Through her relationship with Porter Novelli, she also gained public relations and social media experience.
Due to Benold’s work with early stage companies and funding groups, she evaluates market and funding opportunities for new technologies with a keen eye for game changers and growth potential. She excels at partnering organizations with their most ideal counterparts in government, R&D, finance, and the marketplace. Benold is CTSI’s Austin representative on the Austin Chamber of Commerce’s Clean Energy Council and the Executive Director of the CleanTX Foundation.
Featured Events
ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit
Washington DC, Feb. 27-29, 2012
Cleantech 2012
(joint with TechConnect World)
Santa Clara CA, June 19-21, 2012
- Patrick J. Piper, QM Power, Inc.
- Michael Newell, Ener-G-Rotors, Inc.
- Dr. Ray O Johnson, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Lockheed Martin
