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
Gerald Biser, Director, WV Manufacturing Extension Partnership
Jamie Cope, Deputy Director, RCBI
Greg Clutter, Chief Operating Officer & Executive Vice President, MATRIC
Clifton Dedrickson, formerly with The Dow Chemical Company
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
Scott Rotruck, Senior Account Executive, Orion Strategies
Jan Taylor, Ph.D., Director, Division of Science & Research, West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission
Frank Vitale, President and CEO, Forge Business Solutions
Robert Wentz, Managing Partner, Stonewall Capital
STAFF
Anne Barth, Executive Director