Lindsay Ryan is Venture Development Director for the University System of Maryland, which coordinates among 12 public institutions and 3 regional higher education centers throughout Maryland. Lindsay leverages the collective expertise and resources of the System to provide even more support for innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic development throughout the System and State. Previously, she was the Founding Manager of Harbor Launch at IMET, a business incubator within a University System of Maryland research institute in Baltimore, Maryland. Lindsay began her career at the National Science Foundation, leading program assessment and communications for the Small Business Innovation Research program and working with other innovation programs such as I-CorpsTM. Lindsay received a B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of Maryland - College Park in 2009 and an M.S. from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill in 2011 studying Marine Microbiology.

Henry Mortimer serves as the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the University of Baltimore. He oversees the support and assistance to all UB undergraduate and graduate students and alumni who are intent on establishing an enterprise. An entrepreneur, strategic advisor, and storyteller, Mortimer has been distilling noise into compelling narratives for 30+ years. In 2008, he founded Mortimer Communications Inc. to help growing companies create messaging that is meaningful and memorable by ensuring that the story they tell resonates with their target audience. Prior to founding his company, Mortimer handled marketing, communications, and business development services for a medical education company that helped major pharmaceutical and biotech companies, including AstraZeneca, Glaxo-Smithkline, and Pfizer, share their stories with healthcare professionals. Mortimer also spent more than two decades in the publishing industry, providing targeted content and editorial direction for a variety of business-to-business, academic, and consumer publications in the Baltimore-Washington region. Henry Mortimer is also a published author who has written everything from poems, short stories, songs, screenplays, and novels-in-progress, to essays, reviews, criticism, and several books, including a sales and marketing how-to manual. 

David joined Towson University in 2016 as assistant director of Venture Creation. In this role, he manages the daily operations and programming of the Towson University Incubator and fosters an environment that promotes innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship with the University, TU Incubator, and the wider entrepreneurial community.

David has 30 years of experience in economic development, technology transfer, commercialization, and entrepreneurship. After obtaining an M.B.A., David spent nearly 10 years in small business development centers in Georgia and Florida.

After moving to Scotland, he was responsible for managing the funding and support of the award-winning Hillington Park Innovation Centre, a business incubator just outside Glasgow, Scotland, which provides support to over 170 innovative new companies.

As project manager at Scottish Enterprise, David worked on proof of concept projects with major Scottish research universities. He was part of a team that created the Wellness and Health Innovation project, which provides business development, marketing, and technical support to innovative entrepreneurs creating new products and services in the health and wellness sectors.