NSTI Team

Matthew Laudon

Executive Director - Business Development

Dr. Matthew Laudon is co-founder and executive director of business development for the Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI) in Cambridge, MA. Dr. Laudon is an expert in academic to business relations. He obtained a Ph.D. with the Wisconsin Center for Nanotechnology and Synchrotron Radiation Center and has subsequently worked at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), Motorola in Los Alamos National Laboratories and numerous Boston area start-ups in micro and nanotechnology commercialization and partnership development. He has worked as a technology commercialization consultant for; VC, legal, academic, start-up and established technology corporations. Dr. Laudon has served as an NSF — NNI proposal reviewer and as an advisor for the Massachusetts Nanotechnology Initiative. He has published over 30 technical publications and patents in topics ranging from nanotechnology, semiconductors, microsystems and optics. Dr. Laudon is the co-founder of the Nano Science and Technology Institute and is the co-founder and chair of the International Nanotechnology Conference (Nanotech 1998 — 2010).

Bart Romanowicz

Executive Director - Technology Development

Dr. Bart Romanowicz is co-founder and executive director of technology development for the Nano Science and Technology Institute in Cambridge, MA. He received his M.S. and Sc.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, working in the Microsystems Institute. Dr. Romanowicz is an expert in matching technology capabilities with industrial needs for commercialization. He has served as a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an industrial and academic partner manager at the Microsystems firm Coventor and as technology team lead with the Boston based Axiowave Networks, Inc. and CFD Research Corporation. Romanowicz has over 40 technical publications and patents primarily in microsystem design, is the author of Methodology for the Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems, Kluwer (1998), is the co-founder and chair of the Nanotech International Conference and Expo and is Managing Editor or Editor in Chief of two journals and two annuals in micro and nano technologies.

Jennifer Rocha

Publications Director

Ms. Rocha serves as Publications Director for the Nano Science and Technology Institute. She is responsible for managing the monthly Nano World News and other publications being developed by the NSTI for the business and nanotechnology community. Before joining the NSTI, Ms. Rocha was a Project Manager with the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC), a leading state economic development organization. Her work focused on MTC’s flagship publication, the annual Index of the Massachusetts Innovation Economy report. She conducted primary data collection and analysis for various reports, and collaborated with and managed Advisory Committees comprised of leaders from business, academia, and government. Ms Rocha also assisted in the creation of the Massachusetts Nanotechnology Initiative (MNI), an initiative that works to promote nanotechnology-related research, development, and business formation. Her work with the MNI included co-organizing the state’s first Nanotechnology Venture Forum in 2003 held at MIT, and serving as Co-Editor on the Nanotechnology in Massachusetts report.

Denise Lee

Sponsorship Manager

Sarah J. Wenning

Operations Manager and Co-Founder

Ms. Wenning is the co-founder of the Nano Science and Technology Institute and has served as Operations Manager for all NSTI events since 1997.