Executive Committee
Chair: Michele O’Connor, Investment Manager, West Virginia Jobs Investment Trust
Vice Chair: Matt Harbaugh, Managing Director, Mountain State Capital
Treasurer: Kevin Highlander, Partner, Arnett Carbis Toothman
Secretary: Kelley M. Goes, Member, Jackson Kelly PLLC
Greg Henthorn, Executive Vice President, Flat Rock Energy
Mary Hunt, Senior Program Officer, Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation
Russ Lorince, Founding Member, TechConnect West Virginia
John Maher, Ph.D., Vice President for Research, Marshall University; Executive Director, Marshall University Research Corporation
Guy A. Peduto, Director, INNOVA Commercialization Group, The High Technology Foundation
Tom Vorbach, Member, Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Board Members
Greg Clutter, Chief Operating Officer & Executive Vice President, MATRIC
Kevin DiGregorio, Ph.D., Executive Director, Chemical Alliance Zone
J. Rudy Henley, General Partner, Mountaineer Capital, LP
Arria Hines, President & CEO, Allegheny Science & Technology
Bruce Mutter, Founder & CEO, Center for Applied Research & Technology
Virginia Painter, Senior Vice President for Communications and Marketing, Marshall University
Javier Reyes, Ph.D., Milan Puskar Dean, VP for StartUp West Virginia, John Chambers College of Business & Economics, West Virginia University
Scott Rotruck, Senior Account Executive, Orion Strategies
Derek Scarbro, Director, Appalachian Hatchery & Business Development at the Robert C. Byrd Institute at Marshall University
Jeffrey Vandall, Sales Director, Business & Industrial Development, WV Department of Commerce
Frank Vitale, President and CEO, Forge Business Solutions
Robert Wentz, Managing Partner, Stonewall Capital
STAFF
Anne Barth, Executive Director