Mr. Rogers was founder and president of Rogers & Associates Management Consultants, Ltd., from its inception in 1972 until its acquisition in 1985. He led the firm from its founding as a startup to an enterprise with offices from Los Angeles to New York, with revenues in excess of $10 million, and with over 200 employees.

Mr. Rogers has a life-long passion for new technologies and the process of rapid and successful commercialization. He is a devoted student of business and has done extensive research and analysis in the process of technology commercialization. Mr. Rogers is a noted author, lecturer and business professional. Mr. Rogers has published several articles on the subject of technology commercialization, including “What Makes Technology Commercial,” “The Next Polaroid,” and “Picking Products with Punch,” a four-part series on technology commercialization.

Putting his insights into practice, he founded WiLAN Inc., his first company based on a university technology. While no longer active with the company, WiLAN has grown to achieve a market cap of $1 billion. Mr. Rogers left WiLAN to found SUTI. Mr. Rogers received a Bachelor of Commerce and a MBA degree from the University of Alberta.

Robert Hovee is a private investor and business consultant to CEOs and Boards of Directors. He is Chairman of World Am, Inc. and Xpert Technologies, Inc. Over the past 13 years, he has been on 23 corporate boards and is currently on the board of Metagenics, Inc. and Select University Technologies, Inc. Mr. Hovee was Chairman of the Board/CEO of Life Support Products, Inc., a startup venture he successfully launched and led for over 10 years. Previously, Mr. Hovee was Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Atari, Director of Marketing for Allergan, Director of Sales for Spalding Sports Worldwide, and was with the Fast Track Team at Boise Cascade Corp. On a volunteer basis, Mr. Hovee is Chairman of the UCI Health System Board and on the board of the UCI Medical School. In addition, he is on the board of the UCI Paul Merage School of Business and SoCalBio (Southern California Biomedical Council). Previously he was Chairman of Venture Point SBDC, LINC (Life Science Industry Council) and on the board of the Orange County Venture Group. Mr. Hovee has four university degrees from the University of Washington and the American Graduate School of International Management, where he was awarded the Barton Kyle Yount scholarship.

Mr. Wootten founded Delta Tech International in 1994 for the purpose of commercializing technology both domestically and internationally, building upon his strengths as an authority in commercialization of university technologies.

Mr. Wootten served as Director of the Office of Technology Transfer for the University of California. In his six-year tenure, Mr. Wootten directed licensing technology from seven campuses and the three Federal Department of Energy Laboratories operated by the University. He increased revenues from $9.8 million to $44.6 million in four years.

From 1986 to 1989 Mr. Wootten served as President and CEO of University Technology Corporation, raising $3.5 million to commence operation and contracts with Georgia Tech, University of Maryland, Kansas State University, the University of Connecticut and the University of Iowa. Previously he directed the Patent Administration Office at Duke University, establishing its first technology licensing program and managing it to annual revenue in excess of $1.5 million with 65 licenses. Mr. Wootten was also Executive Director of the University of Virginia Alumni Patents Foundation. Mr. Wootten received his BS degree from the U.S. Naval Academy, and an MS degree equivalent from the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory of Westinghouse and the US Navy Nuclear Power School. He holds two patents in the nuclear field.

Malcolm Lennie is currently involved in several business interests, including a mercury capsule for use in the neon tubing business and developing land at a central Alberta lake into a campsite, adult village and permanent home for Alberta’s recreational vehicle owners. As well, he acts for one of the larger adult community builders in the province.

For 33 years he has been a practicing lawyer in Edmonton, Alberta, in various firms in which he was a partner. His preferred areas of practice included small business commercial law, real property, intellectual property law and technology transfer issues. Prior to that he spent more than a decade as a litigator.

Mr. Lennie was a founder of SUTI and was instrumental in the development and research that led to SUTI’s creation. He has been active in Provincial politics as President of a Constituency Association and as a campaign manager for several candidates at the Provincial level. He also served as membership chair for the runner-up to the Premier the last time a new leader was selected in Alberta.

Mr. Lennie received his BA and LLB degrees from the University of Alberta in 1969 and 1970 and received his designation as Queens Counsel in 1992.