The SMIC operates with a Managing Directors Committee representing the Midwest region's business, academic, government and science sectors.

This leadership team guides the SMIC as it provides a spectrum of business services to developing technology-based ventures.

 

SMIC Managing Director Committee

Mr. Peter Battani
Kalamazoo County Administrator
Kalamazoo County Government

 

Dr. Janice Brown
Executive Director
The Kalamazoo Promise

 

Mr. Phil Carra                                                        
Consulting
Apjohn Group

 

Mr. Kenneth Collard
Kalamazoo City Manager
City Hall

 

Mr. Dan Darnley                                                    
Chief IP Counsel
Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc.

 

Dr. Jack Hopkins
Former President and CEO
Kalamazoo Community Foundation

 

Mr. Ron Kitchens
CEO
Southwest Michigan First

 

Dr. Jack Luderer                                             
Executive Director
Biosciences Research and Commercialization Center

 

Douglas R. Morton, PhD
PharmMor Consulting, LLC
Founder and Managing Director

 

Mr. Donald Parfet
Managing Partner
Apjohn Group, LLC

 

Dr. Michael Rice
Superintendent
Kalamazoo Public Schools

 

Ms. Teri Willey
Director
Cambridge Enterprise,
The University of Cambridge

 

 

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