Jerry Hultin is an authority on innovation and its role in creating a more dynamic 21st century global economy. He is the Chairman of the Global Futures Group, LLC, a company organized to support technology’s role in improving the quality of life and inclusiveness of cities around the world.
Mr. Hultin recently completed fifteen years of academic leadership in New York City, including the creation of business incubators, student competitions, angel funding, media labs, game design centers, and more. Working closely with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Mr. Hultin’s creation of these business, academic, and government initiatives helped transform NYC into one the world’s leading high-tech economies.
From 2013 to 2015, Mr. Hultin served as Senior Presidential Fellow for global innovation at New York University and from 2005 to 2013 as president of Polytechnic University / Institute (now NYU Tandon School of Engineering). From 2000 to 2005, Mr. Hultin was dean of the school of technology management at Stevens Institute of Technology.
From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Hultin was President Clinton’s Under Secretary of the Navy. In this role, he was Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen’s adviser on innovation and business transformation at the Pentagon.
Mr. Hultin is currently an urban strategy adviser to the World Economic Forum (Davos) and UN Habitat; chair of the Global Advisory Board for the Smart Cities Expo World Congress in Barcelona; a science and technology expert on Malaysia’ Global Science and Innovation Advisory Council; and an adviser to presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, and Secretary of Defense Ash Carter on innovation.
Mr. Hultin is a graduate of Yale Law School, Ohio State University and Harvard University’s new presidents program.
David Ehrenberg serves as the President & CEO of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (BNYDC), overseeing its 330 tenants and 1.8 million SF expansion. Prior to joining BNYDC, Mr. Ehrenberg was an Executive Vice President and co-head of the Real Estate Transaction Services group at the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC). While at NYCEDC, Mr. Ehrenberg was a senior manager on many of the City’s priority economic development projects including: the Applied Sciences initiative that resulted in Cornell’s new campus on Roosevelt Island; the redevelopment of six acres of vacant land on the Lower East Side known as Seward Park; the Atlantic Yards project; as well as the creation and implementation of hundreds of millions of dollars of programs to support small businesses after Hurricane Sandy. In addition to marquee projects, he supervised dozens of industrial and manufacturing projects across the City and supervised the operations of the City’s Industrial Development Agency.
Before joining NYCEDC, Mr. Ehrenberg worked at South Brooklyn Legal Services as the coordinator for a microenterprise program. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University where he majored in government and urban studies, was a Fulbright Fellow in Zimbabwe, and received dual Masters Degrees from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University in Public Policy and Urban Planning.
2008 - He has been a professor and Dean of the Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, DU. He was the vice president of DU, the president of the Acoustic Society of Japan (ASJ). His research is focused on the ultrasonic electronics. He received the Sato Prize Paper Award from ASJ twice, the Paper Award from the Japan Society of Applied Physics. He is the Fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers. He also has the interest for the encourage the talent, and is the president of the Center for the Development of the Produce-Technology.
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