TechNite 2009 Awards
BETA AWARD | CONNECTOR AWARD
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BETA AWARD WINNER
2009 Winner – Dr. David Ramsay, President, University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB)
We are pleased to announce that Dr. David Ramsay, President, University of Maryland Baltimore, (UMB) has been named the 2009 BETA (Baltimore’s Extraordinary Technology Advocate) award winner. The BETA Award is presented at the GBTC's annual TechNite celebration to an individual whose words and actions have had an outstanding impact on the Greater Baltimore technology community.
Dr. David J. Ramsay became President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, the state’s public academic health, law and human services university, in 1994. UMB, which is located on Baltimore’s west side near Camden Yards, includes professional schools of dentistry, law, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, social work, and an interdisciplinary graduate school. During Dr. Ramsay’s 15-year tenure at UMB, sponsored research has grown fivefold from just over $100 million in 1994 to nearly $500 million in fiscal year 2009. The campus has expanded to a 61-acre research and academic medical center complex, encompassing 62 buildings in the heart of downtown Baltimore.
In 2003 Dr. Ramsay launched his most ambitious initiative to create a university associated research park to attract, house and grow entrepreneurial commercial and academic enterprises. He brokered a deal with Baltimore City to purchase almost 5 acres of cleared and vacant city-owned land adjacent to the campus to create the University of Maryland BioPark. The BioPark is now a 10-acre project, which will boast 1.8 million square feet of lab and office space in 12 buildings, plus garage parking and landscaped parks at final build-out. By 2009, 360,000 square feet in two-multi-tenant buildings and one 631-space parking garage were completed. Development and planning for a third multi-tenant building is underway and construction of the State of Maryland’s new Forensic Medical Center will be completed in 2010.
Dr. Ramsay was educated at Oxford University, where he received his baccalaureate, masters, doctoral, and medical degrees and later joined the faculty. Prior to his appointment at the University of Maryland, Dr. Ramsay served for more than a decade as Senior Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the University of California, San Francisco.
Ramsay will be presented with the BETA Award at TechNite 2009, which will be held on Thursday, October 15, 5:00 - 8:30 p.m., at the Baltimore Convention Center.
The BETA Award (Baltimore's Extraordinary Technology Advocate) is presented to an individual who has made a difference in the technology community by giving back and making things happen. BETA winners are risk takers and will stick their necks out for the sake of change and progress. Some do it quietly, others not so quietly. They come from all walks of life, as exemplified by past winners:
Senator Barbara Mikulski (1996)
Chuck Newhall,New Enterprise Associates (1997)
Freeman Hrabowski, UMBC (1998)
Jeong Kim, Lucent Technologies (1999)
Bill Struever, Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse (2000)
Frank Adams, Grotech Capital Group (2001)
Phillip Singerman, Maryland Technology Development Corporation (2002)
Anthony Caputo, SafeNet (2003)
Chris Foster, Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development (2004)
Steve Walker, Steve Walker & Associates (2005)
Frank Bonsal, Co-Founder, New Enterprise Associates (2006)
Paul Silber, President/CEO - In Vitro Technologies (2007)
Aris Melissaratos, Advisor to the President, Johns Hopkins University (2008)
Nomination Process:
BETA nominees are submitted by the GBTC Board and by TechNite sponsors. The nominee list is then distributed to our past BETA award winners and they narrow it down to three potential candidates. The final candidate list is then sent back to our board for a final vote.
CONNECTOR AWARD WINNER
The CONNECTOR is awarded to the GBTC member who "Gets It" – they are more than a volunteer; they CONNECT people. People to people. People to programs. And they get others involved. They are the person who brings clients, colleagues, friends and even prospects to GBTC programs – connecting them to others in our community.
They make our community a better place by understanding the power of connecting. You’ve heard the phrase, "A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats" – the CONNECTOR is the one who is raising the tide.
2009 Winner: Dave Troy, Roundhouse Technologies & TEDxMidAtlantic Founder
“Dave embodies the passion, advocacy and vision that make him a great CONNECTOR. In creating Beehive Baltimore, he began to rethink how we work and collaborate. In creating the Baltimore Angels, he successfully identified & guided fellow entrepreneurs to fund the regions’ next stars. And with TEDxMidAtlantic, BarCamp Baltimore and Social DevCamp, he is fundamentally reshaping how our regions’ technology community interacts, learns and grows. He also champions the efforts of others, fostering and engaging everyone to rethink how tech communities interact and thrive. He’s taken our tech community to the “edge” of innovation and as these ideas, programs and interactions take hold, that “edge” is pulling all of us forward. That is why Dave Troy deserves this year’s CONNECTOR award” - Steve Kozak, GBTC Executive Director.
2009 Finalists:
Dave Troy - Roundhouse Technologies & TEDx MidAtlantic
Mike Subelsky - OtherInBox & Ignite Baltimore
Neil Davis - Emerging Technology Centers
Previous Winners:
Michael Teitelbaum – President, Eisner Interactive (2003)
Larry Fiorino - Founder & President, G1440 (2004)
Art Jacoby – Principal, Jacoby (2005)
Hillel Glazer – Principal & CEO, Entinex (2006)
Don Grauel - President, L.E. Goldsborough & Son, Inc. (2007)
Tom Loveland & John Eckenrode – Maryland Computer Services Association (2008)
We’re looking for nominations for The 2009 CONNECTOR award. If you know of someone who consistently connects others, send their name and a brief description (less than 100 words) to Melanie Kelleher by 8/30/09, 12:00 p.m.