SpringBoard

New SpringBoard Team Members

JEDC recently welcomed two new Technology Consultants to the SpringBoard team. Dan Hubert (3rd from right in photo) and Greg Amorese (2nd from left) have joined technology transfer teammates Paul Moran (middle), Zach Wilkinson (3rd from left) and Peter Perna (on the right) in their collective efforts to facilitate cooperative research and development agreements, patent licenses and other partnerships between US Department of Defense laboratories and private industry. Also pictured are Adrien Lopez, SpringBoard Communications Officer, and Brian Holst, SpringBoard Program Director.

Experienced as both a patent attorney and electrical engineer, Juneau-based Dan Hubert has been proprietor of a firm providing intellectual property legal services to companies and individuals throughout the world. Technologies he has dealt with range from software, circuitry and magnetic storage devices to logging equipment and semiconductor manufacturing. Hubert also works as pilot-in-command for a commercial air taxi operation involving sea, land and amphibious aircraft. Through SpringBoard he will assist in identifying and facilitating partnerships between DoD and private industry in areas of general aviation such as manufacturing, assembly and avionics.

Greg Amorese has more than 20 years of experience in business development and worldwide sales and marketing for industrial and business-to-business technical products. His technical expertise encompasses electronics, renewable energy, applied physics, and measurement systems. Amorese holds a BSEE degree from Rochester Institute of Technology and has spent most of his career in test and measurement operations at Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies. Most recently he has been assisting small businesses in licensing intellectual property. For SpringBoard, Amorese is facilitating cooperative agreements and patent licenses in the areas of battery and energy storage and RF systems and devices.

Read the article in the JEDC News, October 11, 2011