Posts Tagged ‘technology’
Blue Economy Convergence Conversation: Jennifer McCall, Co-founder of SeaTox Research
Dr. Jennifer McCall is a leader with one foot in the world of science and the other in business. Already a Ph.D. in immunology, she opted to do further postdoctoral work in the University of North Carolina Wilmington Business of Biotech program that cross-trains Ph.D. scientists in business. She discovered that doing postdoctoral work in…
Read MoreBlue Economy Convergence Conversation: Chip Mahan of Live Oak Bank
Chip Mahan is a pioneer in banking who started his career in 1973 and has spent his career revolutionizing banking at the convergence of fintech and financial services. In 1995, Chip and his brother-in-law changed the way banking was done by putting the first bank on the internet. Today, Chip is Chairman and CEO of…
Read MoreBlue Economy Convergence Conversation: Glenn Anderson, Cape Fear Ocean Labs
Glenn Anderson’s friends describe him as someone who grew up as an irredeemably curious child. Even today, he wants to know why things work, how they work, and if you break it, what happens? He was born in Alabama and raised in Tennessee by parents who valued education. After getting his formal education, he wound…
Read MoreConvergence Conversation: Assessing the Technology Revolution with Chuck Brooks
Chuck Brooks is one of today’s most familiar names in emerging technology and cybersecurity. He is deeply experienced across a wide range of technology topics in public and private organizations. During his formal education in international relations and his first job at the Voice of America, he became a part of the Washington D.C. power…
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