May 21, 2003

THREE PROMINENT LEADERS JOIN UMBI BOARD

ROCKVILLE, Md.--Three distinguished leaders have joined the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute’s Board of Visitors.
James T. Brady is a professional business strategist and former Secretary of Maryland’s Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED). Arden L. Bement, Jr. is director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). And, Gary S. Murray is an innovative leader in technology and real estate development.

From left to right: James T. Brady, Arden L. Bement, Jr., Gary S. Murray

“UMBI continues to expand the talent of its already outstanding advisory board. We are honored to have Dr. Bement, Mr. Murray and Mr. Brady work with UMBI to continue to achieve its mission,” says Martin Apple, chair, UMBI Board of Visitors and president of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents.

Murray is actively involved in major real estate developments in the Washington, D.C. region. He is also the founder of Human Vision, LLC, (www.humanvision.com) a venture capital firm that helps technology entrepreneurs build market value, vision and investing opportunities. In 1987, Murray co-founded Sylvest Management Systems Corporation that made a strong impact on the computer industry by “developing open systems that work.” He is chairman of the Prince Georges County Economic Development Corporation and will become chairman of the Maryland Economic Development Commission on June 30.

Prior to Bement’s appointment as director of NIST (www.nist.gov), he served as the David A. Ross Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering and head of the School of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University. Bement has also served as head of NIST’s Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology and as head of the advisory committee for the agency’s Advanced Technology Program. He has served as a member of the U.S. National Science Board, the governing board for the National Science Foundation, and chaired the Commission for Engineering and Technical Studies and the National Materials Advisory Board of the National Research Council. (UMBI’s flagship facility, the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology in Rockville, Md. is a cooperative venture with NIST and Montgomery County.)

Brady served as Secretary of DBED from May 1995 to April 1998. He is now managing director of Mid-Atlantic of Ballantrae International, Ltd., a business-consulting firm that focuses on strategic management. Brady has a long history of community leadership in Maryland, serving on boards of many cultural educational and social service organizations, currently including chairman of the B & O Railroad Museum, president of the Center Stage (Baltimore) Board of Trustees, and a trustee of Mount St. Mary’s College in Emmitsburg, Md.
“I am very pleased and honored to have such talent joining the UMBI Board of Visitors. They will bring expertise and advice to help sustain and enhance our important missions,” says UMBI President Jennie Hunter-Cevera. (BOV list:
http://www.umbi.umd.edu/about/bov.html

More on Gary S. Murray:
• serves on the boards of several private technology companies with revenues ranging up to $125 million;
• prior to Sylvest, was COO of Falcoln Microsystems, Controller at STSC (since renamed Manugistics), and an auditor at Ernst & Young;
• was co-founder, early investor and mentor of TimeBridge Technologies, which he recently sold to Dimensions Data Limited for $135 million;
• serves on the Md. Governor's Commission on Development of Advanced Technology Business;
• on the Board of Visitors, University of Md. School of Education.

More on Arden L. Bement, Jr.:
• was a member of the Space Station Utilization Advisory Subcommittee and the Commercialization and Technology Advisory Committee for NASA;
• consulted for the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and Idaho Nuclear Energy and Environmental Laboratory;
• has held appointments at Purdue University in the schools of Nuclear Engineering, Materials Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as a courtesy appointment in the Krannert School of Management;
• was director of the Midwest Superconductivity Consortium and the Consortium for the Intelligent Management of the Electrical Power Grid;
• was vice president of technical resources and of science and technology for TRW Inc.;
• served as deputy under secretary of defense for research and engineering; director, Office of Materials Science, DARPA; and manager, Fuels and Materials Department and the Metallurgy Research Department, Battelle Northwest Laboratories;
• was a senior research associate, General Electric Co.;
• taught as a professor of nuclear materials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
• is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

More on James T. Brady:
• serves as a member of the Board of Directors and chairman of the Audit Committee of Constellation Energy Group, McCormick and Company, T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. and Aether Systems, Inc.;
• was a managing partner of the Long Island and Baltimore offices of Arthur Anderson LLP;
• currently is chairman, Frederick County Business Development Advisory Council;
• serves on the Board of Maryland Business for Responsive Government;
• was a member of the Advisory Council of the Johns Hopkins School of Professional Studies in Business and Education.

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The University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute was mandated by the state of Maryland legislature in 1985 as "a new paradigm of state economic development in biotech-related sciences." With five major research and education centers across Maryland, UMBI is dedicated to advancing the frontiers of biotechnology. The centers are the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology in Rockville; Center for Biosystems Research in College Park; and Center of Marine Biotechnology, Medical Biotechnology Center, and the Institute of Human Virology, all in Baltimore.