Board of Directors

From the Chair

Diverse, entrepreneurial and innovative are the defining characteristics of UNM Rainforest Innovations’ Board of Directors. Members of the Board are researchers, inventors, academics, administrators, business executives, lawyers and community leaders, with local, national and international ties. Our board guides UNM Rainforest Innovations in its mission to support the University of New Mexico and its partners as the source for innovation management and commercial development in six strategic areas of service to the University:

• Compliance with the Bayh-Dole Act (IP prosecution, maintenance and commercialization)
• Support for economic development (marketing/licensing/start-up companies)
• Support of UNM faculty and staff commercialization (recruitment support, commercialization outreach education and faculty retention)
• Academic impact through support for UNM research (CDAs, MTAs, IIAs and research agreements)
• Academic impact through support for UNM education (student interns, outreach, Joseph L. Cecchi VentureLab)
• Income generation from technology transfer

The UNM Rainforest Innovations Board of Directors deals with these strategic UNM Rainforest Innovations areas and applies specific expertise, drawn from our members’ backgrounds, as needed.

Ms. Terri L. Cole
Vice Chair, UNM Rainforest Innovations Board of Directors
President & CEO, Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce

Dr. James P. Holloway
Vice Chair, UNM Rainforest Innovations Board of Directors
Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, UNM

Dr. John H. Stichman
Secretary and Treasurer, UNM Rainforest Innovations Board of Directors
Executive Vice President & Deputy Laboratory Director, Sandia National Laboratories, Retired

Ms. Elizabeth (Lisa) J. Kuuttila
CEO & Chief Economic Development Officer, UNM Rainforest Innovations

Board Members

Mr. Joe Christian
President/CEO, Nusenda Credit Union

Dr. Christos Christodoulou
Jim and Ellen King Dean of Engineering and Computing, Department of Engineering and Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UNM

Dr. Julie A. Coonrod
Dean, Graduate Studies and Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, UNM

Ms. Teresa Costantinidis
Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration, UNM

Dr. Robert H. Fisher
Founder, Fisher Leadership Strategy Execution

Mr. David W. Gibson
Senior Director, Environmental, Safety, Health, and Quality Directorate, Argonne National Laboratories

Mr. Riis Gonzales
President & CEO, Sandia Foundation

Ms. Maria Griego-Raby
President, Principal, Contract Associates, Inc.

Dr. Kelly D. Hammett
Director, Directed Energy Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico

Dr. Richard S. Larson
Executive Vice Chancellor
Vice Chancellor for Research, Health Sciences Center, UNM

Dr.Gabriel P. Lopez
Vice President for Research, Professor, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, and Founding Director and Member, Center for Biomedical Engineering, The University of New Mexico

Dr. Gregg L. Mayer
President, Gregg L. Mayer & Co., Inc.

Ms. Cindy McGill
CEO and Founder, McGill Executive Consulting LLC

Mr. Robert Nath
Co-Founder and Chairman, Quasar International, Inc., Retired

Dr. Eric R. Prossnitz
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Molecular Medicine
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center

Dr. Alton D. Romig, Jr.
Executive Officer, National Academy of Engineering

Dr. Paul B. Roth
Chancellor for Health Sciences, Health Sciences Center, UNM
Dean, School of Medicine, UNM

Dr. Garnett S. Stokes
President, The University of New Mexico

Dr. John C. Stormont
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of New Mexico

Pedro F. Suarez, Esq.
Partner, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.

Mr. Gary Tonjes
President, Albuquerque Economic Development, Inc.

Mr. Charles I. Wellborn
Former President, Science & Technology Corporation @ UNM, Retired