Columbia Basin Badger Club
Program:
PNNL
Deployed Technology in our Daily Lives: Now, Soon & Future
When: Friday March 24, 2017
Where: 11:30am Richland Shilo Inn
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Cancellation Deadline: Noon on Monday;
Cost: Member $20, Non-Members $25, Day of Event $30
Ron Thomas the Technology Commercialization Manager at PNNL:
Ron Thomas joined Battelle at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 1988 in the Biology and Chemistry Department for the former Life Sciences Directorate. A progression of positions at the Laboratory – on the technical side and in commercialization – has gained him respect among technical and business-minded peers alike.
Presently, Ron works in the Technology Deployment & Outreach Office, with responsibilities for management of several programs. In particular, Ron manages PNNL’s entrepreneurial leave program, Tech Trek, as well as sits as teaching faculty and program manager for the EERE Lab Corps Program. Ron is also responsible for the management of the health life sciences portfolio for the Laboratory, teaming with researchers conceiving important intellectual property and collaborating with companies that license and practices the inventions in their own products and services. He also serves as program manager for PNNL’s Technology Investment Program, leading a lab-level council in technology development investments to improve transfer and commercialization of lab-derived innovative technology. Ron worked with senior management and Laboratory subject matter experts to develop a new internal discretionary investment program designed to further develop technology to enhance the commercialization of PNNL technologies.
Among the highlights of his working with PNNL’s life sciences research, Ron has worked on several programs targeted at investigations in potential bioeffect of ultrasound in molecular, cellular, and whole animal systems. In particular, Ron’s work was directed at identifying damaging effects of non-thermal mechanisms such as cavitation caused by ultrasound.
Ron also had the responsibility of serving as the commercialization manager for the information technology portfolio in 2008. Ron has served as the Industrial Business Development Manager for Health, Pharma and Biotech sectors, and was the Program Manager for the Independent Research and Development Program (IR&D) at PNNL.
Prior to becoming a commercialization manager, Ron managed the technology and business analysis group within technology commercialization. He managed the department’s internal and external IP services, marketing, and business and competitive intelligence services. He also developed and implemented systems that support the technology commercialization process.
Ron worked as a patent agent in the intellectual property legal services department drafting and prosecuting patents, and providing oversight of the legal counsel outsourcing for the Laboratory. Upon joining the Laboratory, he worked first as a biologist, and then moved into operations management before moving to the business side.
Ron is an active member of the Licensing Executive Society (LES), the Association for University Technology Managers (AUTM), the International Economic Development Council, and the Technology Transfer Working Group (TTWG-DOE tech transfer community) where he held vice-chair and chair positions. Ron is PNNL’s board member for Life Sciences Washington (formerly Biomedical Biotechnology Association (WBBA)) and sits on the Richland Economic Development Committee. Ron is married with three children. He is active in the community having served on several boards, and enjoys backpacking, skiing, music, fly-fishing, and remains an avid and active musician and athlete.
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