RICHARD T. MEYER Ph.D.
9201 Preston Trail NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111
505-343-9555 Fax 343-9200 e-mail: richtmeyer@aol.com

Dr. Richard Meyer has twenty years of creative and innovative practice of people-oriented, consensus-building, goal-focused management in for-profit and non-profit business enterprises, academic and industrial research, and state and federal policy-making arenas. He has a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and B.S. in Chemistry (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Dr. Meyer is President of Orion Technical Associates, Inc., a company that provides consulting to technology and non-technology businesses in strategic planning, market research, marketing, finance, and capital formation and to developing countries on technology business formation and technology transfer. He is also CEO and President, CIC Photonics, Inc., an enterprise engaged in design, manufacture, and marketing of analytical and industrial instrumentation, serving the chemical, pharmaceutical, and semiconductor industries (visit www.irgas.com and www.cicp.com).

Professional Experience Summary:

· Professor of Entrepreneurship, Emory University School of Business Administration; 1990 - 1993.

· Director, Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), Georgia Institute of Technology; 1986- 1990. In 1989, as a result of Dr. Meyer's efforts, the Georgia General Assembly authorized the Georgia Seed Capital Fund, with state appropriations of to be matched three-fold by private investment. These and other efforts resulted in raising ATDC's success and prestige to be the nation's premier technology incubation center.

· Founder and President, Colorado Research Development Corporation (CRDC); 1984 - 1986.
Dr. Meyer raised original investment capital by means of a private placement offering, comprehensive business plan, and innovative intellectual property agreement with university faculty researchers. He positioned CRDC as one of nation's first private, for-profit technology commercialization enterprises organized specifically to compete for federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts, and secured $2 million in SBIR awards in the first two years. In addition, in 1985, he arranged the private placement offering process to secure up to $500,000 of equity capital.

· CEO and Director of Research, Research Institute of Colorado (RIC); 1983 - 1985. (Note: CRDC and RIC were closely affiliated for-profit and non-profit corporations.)

· Founder and President, Western Energy Planners, Ltd. (WEPL); 1977 - 1983.

· Consultant to Los Alamos National Laboratory, EG&G Idaho, Inc., Science Applications, Inc., Abt Associates, Inc., New Mexico State University, and Solar Energy Research Institute.

· Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dr. Meyer conceived and conducted basic and applied research in the physical and materials sciences programs. He developed the technique of time resolved mass spectrometry for application to fundamental studies in gas phase kinetics, explosives chemistry, chemical lasers, high temperature vaporization and ablation phenomena, radioactive waste storage, nuclear power reactors, and both conventional and alternative energy resources. In addition he has published over 50 technical journal articles and presented numerous research papers at scientific meetings and conferences.

Teaching and Research

Dr. Meyer has designed and taught courses on entrepreneurship, business planning, new venture financing and management, and managing rapid growth to BBA, MBA, and EMBA students. He has also conducted research on seed capital formation, technology transfer methodologies, and state and university science and technology policies and practices, and is the author of fifteen case studies on fast-growth entrepreneurial firms in Metro Atlanta.

Dr. Meyer is principal author of seven editions (1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, and 1998) of The National Census of Early-Stage Capital Financing. The 1995 edition was prepared in collaboration with the University of New Mexico Anderson Schools of Management.

International Activities

Dr. Meyer was elected to the 1987 Class of Society of International Business Fellows (SIBF) and has participated in all SIBF business training programs and foreign travel briefings, including 1989 and 1990 briefings in Brussels and Wiesbaden on European Community organization and "Europe 1992."

He traveled to Mainland China in 1988 to tour the major "comprehensive universities" of China (in Shanghai, Xian, and Beijing) and renew or establish cooperative business and technical research agreements with them. Dr. Meyer met key policy leaders of China and activated a Cooperative Agreement between ATDC and the New Technology Development Center/Technology Clearinghouse of China/ China Association of Science and Technology. In Hong Kong, he initiated business transactions with Hong Kong Government Industry Department and with China International Trust & Investment Corporation.

Dr. Meyer participated in 1989 University System of Georgia economic development information mission to Recife, Brazil. In Recife he made presentations on ATDC entrepreneurial services programs to Federal University of Pernambuco and to Federation of Industries of State of Pernambuco, and developed prospective collaborative programs between ATDC and specific academic, business, and industry entities.

He has been a consultant to Higher Education Science Park Association of the Commonwealth of Independent States (formerly USSR) since 1990, providing expert advice to universities and research institutes on the formation and operation of science parks for technology transfer to free market enterprises. In addition, he was a consultant to the United Nations Development Program and the Technology Park Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur on technology business growth and development and on capital formation process.

Professional Relationships

· Founder, Charter Member, and Board Member, National Association of Seed and Venture Funds, 1993 - present.

· Member, Board of Directors, Business Technology Group, Albuquerque, NM, 1997 - present.

· Founder, Technology Executives Roundtable, Albuquerque, NM, 1999.

· Chairman of Scholarships Subcommittee of the Society of International Business Fellows, 1991 - 1993.

· Member of Atlanta Venture Forum, 1987 - 1993.

· Academician, CIS Academy of Scientists in Higher Education, Elected Charter Member, August 1992.

· Co-Sponsor with Digital Equipment Corporation of Technology Executives Roundtable, 1986 - 1990.

· Member of Governor's Advisory Committee on Capital Markets, June - December 1989.