July 2019

Tim Bernstein is CEO of yet2, an open innovation services company working with an international corporate client base. Tim has been with yet2 for 18 years, serving first as COO and now as CEO. In his current tole he spends significant time delivering a wide-range of OI and IP consulting services to clients, from analytical portfolio analysis to detailed technology and technology-need evaluations, to deal-assessment and execution, to innovation system advising.

Prior to yet2, Tim designed and launched products for high-tech startup companies in both Boston and Silicon Valley....Read more

Kristen Fichthorn is the Merrell Fenske Professor of Chemical Engineering and a Professor of Physics at the Pennsylvania State University. She received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1989. She spent one year as an IBM Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara before joining the Department of Chemical Engineering at Penn State as an Assistant Professor in 1990.
Professor Fichthorn’s research is primarily...Read more

Kathryn L. Beers is currently the Group Leader in the Materials Science and Engineering Division of Polymers and Complex Fluids at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and has been at NIST since 2000 when she first joined as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the Polymers Division. She is a member of the AIChE, American Chemical Society, Materials Research Society and Sigma Xi. Her research interests include advances in polymer synthesis and reaction monitoring, macromolecular separations, integrated and high throughput measurements of polymeric materials,...Read more