Nathaniel Gordon-Clark is an attorney who specializes in patent and licensing issues. During his ten years of practice, he has worked with a diverse group of clients, including garage inventors and international trade groups. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and Temple University Law School. He lives in Baltimore.

Mr. Lefkof currently mentors and advises entrepreneurs in the technology and digital health sectors. One of his recent investments was Sweetspot Diabetes, Inc. that developed cloud-based analytics software to remotely monitor blood glucose readings for diabetes patients. Sweetspot was acquired by DexCom (Nasdaq: DXCM) in March, 2012. Mr Lefkof currently serves on the Board of Directors of Procera Networks, Inc (Nasdaq: PKT) and Cognitive Electronics, Inc which is a start-up company in the Big Data sector that was incubated at Dartmouth University. Mr. Lefkof began his career at McKinsey & Company, Inc in San Francisco. His first start-up was GRiD System Corporation, an early pioneer in laptop and pen-based computers in the 1980's. Mr. Lefkof was the founding CEO of Netopia, Inc in 1994 and served in that capacity for 13 years until Netopia was acquired by Motorola Mobility. Netopia was a leader in DSL business and consumer equipment as well as remote management software. Mr. Lefkof served as Corporate VP and General Manager for MOtorola for five years prior to his current activities. Mr. Lefkof received his BS in IT/Management Science from MIT in 1975 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1977.

Dr. Rothman has over 30 years of product development and senior management experience. He on the Mechanical Engineering faculty at UMBC, leveraging his industry experience to teach core design and capstone courses. Previously he was the VP of Applied Research and Technology Development at BrainScope Company Inc. where he was responsible for the translation of clinical research into new products and applications, adding value through the development of intellectual property, and driving product performance through algorithm development and optimization. Prior to joining BrainScope, Dr. Rothman was the VP of Research and Development for Infinite Biomedical Technologies (IBT), leading the development of EEG based systems for detection of asphyxic brain injury and seizures in critical care applications, achieving two 510(k) cleared products in three years. Before IBT, Dr. Rothman was a consultant to GE Healthcare's Maternal and Infant Care Division, VP of Operations for Metasensors (a startup company developing a microfluidic system for respiratory gas analysis), Director of Engineering for IGEN International (manufacturer of systems for high throughput drug screening, food testing, and clinical diagnostics), and Senior VP and Chief Technical Officer for CardioLogic Systems (manufacturer of automated systems for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and cardiac assist). He also held a variety of positions at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and Black & Decker's medical products division. Dr. Rothman has 15 patents and holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University.

Linda Saffer is the Program Manager for University Programs at the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO). In this role she is responsible for managing the Technology Validation Program and the Patent Assistance Program. These programs seek to develop technologies from universities, non-profit institutions, and the federal laboratories and to promote start-up company formation. She also oversees the Maryland Entrepreneurs Resource List, MERL, which includes area entrepreneurs who are available to mentor or provide leadership to early stage companies or to other MERL entrepreneurs.

Dr. Saffer is also active in Women in Bio. She has over 10 years of experience in technology transfer and 15 years of experience in cell and molecular biology research.

Dr. Saffer has a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Virginia, a MS in Biology from Northwestern University, and a BS in Biology from the University of Rochester.

Roger Stager is the founder of iNovagen, an early stage Smart Home company. iNovagen is focusing on opportunities at the intersection of the “Internet Of Things”, cloud computing and mobile devices. Before iNovagen, Roger was Sr Director of Engineering at NetApp, a premier enterprise storage vendor. Roger was responsible for the ongoing development of the NetApp VTL, a data protection appliance that was part of the NetApp acquisition of Alacritus in 2005. Roger was a cofounder of Alacritus, and as VP of engineering, was responsible for the development of Chronospan, a continuous data protection product and the Alacritus VTL. Prior to Alacritus, Roger was a cofounder Intelliguard, a company that started as a storage system manufacture but evolved into a data protection software company. The company flagship product, BUDTool was one of the first open systems backup products. At various times, Roger held the position of VP Engineering, CTO, and VP Advanced Research. Legato acquired Intelliguard in 1999. Roger worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab after graduating from college in 1981, developing data acquisition and control systems in support of the nuclear test ban treaty verification effort and various other earth science projects.  Roger holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California at Davis, and a M.S.E.E. degree in Control Theory from Stanford University.

Christy is Senior Advisor to the President of Johns Hopkins University on matters of innovation, commercialization, and entrepreneurship.

Christy is a seasoned entrepreneur and investor with 19 years of experience primarily focused on the life sciences and healthcare industries. Prior to her career as an entrepreneur, Christy was a Managing Director at Maverick Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund with over $12 billion under management, where she had a long track record of successful healthcare investing in both public and private companies. Prior to that, she was a healthcare and medical technology stock analyst at T. Rowe Price.

Since 2010, Christy has co-founded two Baltimore based start-ups and has served as a formal and informal advisor to many others. In 2013, GrayBug, a Johns Hopkins University ophthalmology start up which Christy co-founded, won a statewide business plan competition with over 60 life sciences company applicants.

Christy graduated from Williams College (BA, Economics and German) and the Stern School of Business at New York University (MBA, Accounting and Finance). Christy currently serves as vice chairman for the board of Teach for America – Baltimore and co-chairs Baltimore’s Next Generation Investing Event, an event she co-founded which has raised over $300,000 for three K-8 education initiatives in Baltimore City. She was also appointed by Gov. Martin O’Malley to the board of the Maryland State Retirement Plan (MSRP), which oversees $3 billion in defined contribution assets of state employees.