Commercializing Faculty Research Panel

Albert Green

https://www.linkedin.com/in/albert-m-green/

Dr. Albert Green is the Founder and CEO of AMG Consulting Group, which focuses on technology scouting and commercialization, technology-based economic development, international business development and executive mentoring. AMG Consulting Group is a diversity, equity and inclusion evangelist and change agent. AMG Consulting uses its 30+ years of experience and vast network to assist organizations that seek to use technology-based innovation to augment or change their business in exciting new ways. Prior to founding AMG consulting, Dr. Green was the CEO of Kent Display, Inc (KDI). During his tenure as CEO, KDI invented and brought to market a new consumer product category, the eWriter, KDI had an average annual revenue growth rate of 22% from his arrival in 2007 until his departure in 2018. First launched in 2010 under KDI’s ‘Boogie Board’ brand, millions have been sold in over 30 countries around the world. The products are used in business, education, healthcare, military, and around the home. As CEO of KDI, Dr. Green transformed the company from an R&D focused licensing company to a product focused consumer packaged goods company with a global supply chain, sales, marketing and distribution. He led the construction of the first roll-to-roll LCD manufacturing line in the world, which is based in Kent, OH. This advanced manufacturing technique utilizes flexible plastic material to enable high volume, low cost, LCD-based eWriter products. The company currently operates 3 manufacturing lines in Kent, OH.

Dr. Green advocates nationally for U.S. manufacturing. He served on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Manufacturing Council, the principal private sector body advising the Secretary of Commerce on manufacturing. He currently serves on Senator Sherrod Brown’s Ohio Export Advisory Group.  He has worked hard to rewrite the perception of Northeast Ohio’s rust belt manufacturing “from the “3 D’s” to the “3 H’s “ - from dirty, dark, and dangerous to high tech, high paying, and high value.  Dr. Green also drives local economic advocacy by serving on the Board of Directors for TeamNEO, JumpStart, The Kent State University Research Corporation, Cuyahoga Community College Board of Visitors, BRITE Energy Innovators, and served a member of the Cleveland Innovation Project Steering Committee. In addition, he also serves on the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland’s Business Advisory Council and the Greater Cleveland Partnership’s Manufacturing Council.

Prior to joining Kent Displays, Dr. Green was Vice President and division Manager at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).  He holds a B.S. in Physics from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford University.  He also attended the Executive Summer School at MIT’s Sloan School of Business Administration.  Dr. Green has been awarded 26 patents.

Kenneth Loparo

Co-Academic Director, Professor

The Internet of Things Collaborative, CWRU

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenneth-a-loparo-8424622/

Kenneth A. Loparo was an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cleveland State University from 1977 to 1979 and he has been on the faculty of the Case School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University since 1979. He is Nord Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and holds academic appointments in the departments of biomedical engineering and mechanical and aerospace engineering in the Case School of Engineering. He has received numerous awards including the Sigma Xi Research Award for contributions to stochastic control, the John S. Diekoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Teaching, the Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Engineering and Science Professor Award, the Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, the Carl F. Wittke Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and the Srinivasa P. Gutti Memorial Engineering Teaching Award. 

Loparo is a fellow of the IEEE and has held numerous positions in the IEEE Control System Society including chair of the Program Committee for the 2002 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, vice chair of the Program Committee for the 2000 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, chair of the Control System Society Conference (CSS) Audit and Finance Committees, member of the CSS Board of Governors, member of the CSS Conference Editorial Board and Technical Activities Board, associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and associate editor for the IEEE Control Systems Society Magazine.

Loparo's research interests include stability and control of nonlinear and stochastic systems with applications to large-scale electricity systems including generation and transmission and distribution; nonlinear filtering with applications to monitoring, fault detection, diagnosis, prognosis and reconfigurable control; information theory aspects of stochastic and quantized systems with applications to adaptive and dual control and the design of distributed autonomous control systems; the development of advanced signal processing and data analytics for monitoring and tracking of physiological behavior in health and disease. 

Drew Adams

Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor

The Adams Lab, CWRU

https://www.linkedin.com/in/drew-adams-8a9a20b7/

Drew graduated from Swarthmore College with Highest Honors and obtained his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at Harvard University (Prof. David A. Evans). He then undertook postdoctoral studies with Prof. Stuart L. Schreiber at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT within the Center for the Science of Therapeutics. There he used high-throughput screening and chemical biology techniques to identify drug candidates that modulated cancer cell stress phenotypes and to eluciddate these molecules' cellular mechanisms-of-action.  Drew joined the Case Western Reserve University Genetics Department in 2015 as an Assistant Professor, and in July 2018 he was appointed as the Thomas F. Peterson, Jr. Professor of Cancer and Energy Research.  Drew also serves as Director of the Small-Molecule Drug Development Core, a newly-built facility enabling high-throughput screening to accelerate academic drug discovery efforts. 

Darcy Freedman

https://www.linkedin.com/in/darcy-freedman-a49315150/

In 2019, Darcy Freedman, PhD, MPH, was named Director of the Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health at Case Western Reserve University. She was also recognized with the Mary Ann Swetland Endowed Chair in Environmental Health Sciences.

Dr. Freedman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences (PQHS) within the CWRU School of Medicine. PQHS is now the administrative home of the Swetland Center. She also is a member of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Since joining CWRU in 2013, Dr. Freedman has successfully grown a highly regarded research program focused on the intersection of health equity and community nutrition, securing funding from the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, among others. She also contributes as a team scientist to university-wide initiatives such as the Cleveland Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative and the CWRU Center for Reducing Health Disparities and Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods.

Dr. Freedman is nationally recognized for her scientific contributions to community nutrition. Her technology, FM Tracks, is now the gold standard method used nationally to evaluate healthy food incentive programming. She regularly advises and testifies to inform federal, state, and local nutrition policy. Dr. Freedman was awarded the Sarah Samuels Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions to Advocacy, Policy, and Evaluation for Public Health Nutrition by the American Public Health Association. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Food Policy Coalition.