Steven Clark, Director, Information Technology Incubator
Mr. Clark has 25 years of professional experience in the information technology industry. He was a founding executive at a startup that evolved into a $30 million software spinout of Battelle. He has extensive experience in building sales teams, marketing plans, business partnerships and international distribution channels. He has been integral in the planning and execution of business strategies involving the reengineering and positioning of information technology companies. He is currently heading up the IT incubator activity at the Business Technology Center. This activity, funded by Ohio's IT Alliance, is charted to facilitate early stage IT commercialization in Ohio.

Richard P. Focht, Director, BTC Capital Access Office
Mr. Focht has over 25 years experience providing financing consulting for middle market and technology based businesses. His experiences range from the Director of a state agency responsible for multi-million dollar direct loan and loan guarantee programs to identifying and qualifying diverse investment opportunities for a venture capital partnership. His responsibilities at the venture firm included negotiating, closing, monitoring, and exiting from investments. Direct investment experience includes specialty retailing, manufacturing, biotechnology, medical products, and computer hardware and software firms ranging from early-stage to leveraged buy-outs.

Mr. Focht's consulting assignments have included: raising private equity for technology firms; providing due diligence for private investors; reviewing the operations of local nonprofit corporations; and the establishment of four regional nonprofit organizations providing access to capital for manufacturing firms and technology companies. He currently assists the companies at the BTC in commercialization activities and developing additional ties to the venture capital industry.

John F. Lewis Jr., Regional Director OMERIS
Mr. Lewis is a licensed attorney with more than 15 years international experience specializing in business development, emerging market startups, venture capital funding, global strategic planning and sales channel implementation. He co-founded 889 Global Solutions Ltd., a successful China focused venture, where he consulted with businesses on China sales, sourcing and outsourced manufacturing strategies as well as working with emerging technology companies as a portable executive. Prior to that, Mr. Lewis managed the China, Korea, Hong Kong and Macau offices for Perkin Elmer Inc, a $1.7B instrument and optical component technology conglomerate.

Mr. Lewis opened and managed a venture capital office, for a group of angel investors based in Kingston, Jamaica, completing investments in Jamaica, Cayman Islands and Dominican Republic. As the current Regional Director of the Edison BioTechnology Center, Mr. Lewis leads the effort to build and grow life science and bioscience companies throughout Ohio.

Craig R. Stickel, Managing Director, Scitech/TCC
Mr. Stickel is a recognized leader in applying various methodologies for market assessment and long term strategic planning with focus on customer value. He has over 25 years experience creating and executing product and service business development that match market needs. Prior to becoming involved with startup technology business development he held numerous leadership positions in business development, marketing, manufacturing and engineering for Mettler-Toledo, local publicly traded technology company that is the global leader in its markets.

Mr. Stickel is currently the Managing Director at Scitech and the Technology Commercialization Company, where he is engaged in technology startup business development. He has been responsible for structuring loan agreements that convert to equity for several startups. As a member of the Board of Directors of two local technology startup companies, he active raising venture capital for these firms while advising several other TCC portfolio companies.