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Pyrovolakis founded the Innovation Accelerator Foundation (IAF), whose mission is to promote our nation’s economic competitiveness by promoting our nation’s innovation. The IAF hosts the Academic Venture Exchange, where a set of elite research and development American universities pool some of their premier innovation assets. It also hosts iBridgeNetwork, which is our nation’s largest university intellectual property marketplace. Prior to founding the Innovation Accelerator, Pyrovolakis started iKaptivate – a software-as-a-service workflow tool – to a private equity firm. Before that Pyrovolakis was a mergers and acquisitions banker at Jesup & Lamont, a boutique investment bank based in New York. Prior to that, Pyrovolakis founded CollegeScape – a software as a service online college admissions platform – which he sold to Thomson-Reuters, a multinational conglomerate that trades on the New York Stock Exchange (“TOC”).

Pyrovolakis is a member of the Board of Trustees of The American College of Greece and a member of the Board of Directors at Atreyu Trading, TruBeacon, QNET Cybersecurity and the New Jersey Innovation Institute. Pyrovolakis was a judge at the MIT, Columbia, and Stonybrook Entrepreneurship competitions, and a member of the “Committee of Visitors” to the National Science Foundation.

Prior to joining QNS, Dr. Indeck served as President, CTO, and Founder of VelociData, a technology spin-out delivering accelerated decisioning to global corporations. Before forming VelociData, Ron founded and was CTO to Exegy, a firm that enables over $1 trillion in trades daily. At Washington University he was the Das Family Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Security Technologies. His security technology has been incorporated into roughly half of the card readers in the world. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed technical papers and been awarded more than 75 patents; been named the Bar Association Inventor of the Year; and served professional societies in various roles including IEEE Magnetics Society President.

In addition to being the Founder and President, Dr. Cox is also a Senior Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University.

He received his BS, MS and ScD degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT. From 1974 to 1991, he was chair of the Washington University CSE Department and in 1997 became founder and Vice President for Strategic Planning for Growth Networks. This venture-funded chip-set company sold to Cisco in 2000 for $350M and eventually led to the top-of-the-line Cisco router, the CRS-1.

Over his professional career he has taught and done research in asynchronous computing and designed and built many digital systems, using both the synchronous and asynchronous approaches. He has published over 100 scientific papers and book chapters and has twelve patents.

Dr. Cox is a member of the National Academy of Science’s National Academy of Medicine and a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American College of Medical Informatics.

Deborah L. Wince-Smith is the president & CEO of the Council on Competitiveness (Council). Founded in 1986, this unique coalition of leading CEO’s, university presidents and labor union leaders puts forth actionable public policy solutions to make America more competitive in the global marketplace. An internationally renowned, leading voice on competitiveness, innovation strategy, science and technology, and international economic policy, Ms. Wince-Smith has been credited with recharging the national debate on competitiveness, innovation and resilience. Ms. Wince-Smith is frequently called upon to testify in front of the U.S. Congress and appears regularly on global television news networks including Bloomberg, BBC, CNBC, CNN and Fox News.

Ms. Wince-Smith serves as a corporate director and Board Member of national and international organizations, U.S. Government policy advisory committees, charitable organizations, and as a university trustee. She is a former member of the Smithsonian National Board, the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy and the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation Board. She also served as vice-chairman of Women Corporate Directors. She is a member of the Advisory Board of The Journal of Science Policy & Governance and she is also a member of the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property, co-chaired by Craig Barrett, former chairman of Intel Corporation and former U.S. director of national intelligence, Admiral Dennis Blair. She serves on the Board of Directors of the American Associates of Japan’s prestigious Science and Technology in Society Forum, the Qatar Foundation’s R&D Advisory Board, and Ms. Wince-Smith was vice chair and former chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Competitiveness. She also serves on the Purdue Strategic Research Advisory Council (SRAC) and on the board of the American College of Greece, the oldest American-accredited college in Europe and the largest private college in Greece.