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Nanotech CEO to Keynote at NYSTEA Conference submitted by Alta Longware on
03/14/2005
The New York State Technology Association is proud to announce that Mr. Keith Blakely, CEO of NanoDynamics, Inc., will be the keynote guest speaker at the annual NYSTEA conference awards banquet. NanoDynamics is a leader in the commercialization of nanomaterials and nanotechnology-enabled components and systems. The company was formed in 2002 and has already introduced commercial products for the microelectronics, biomedical, chemical, semiconductor, defense, and alternative energy (fuel cell) markets. NanoDynamics has been featured in the USA Today, Business Week, and on CNBC's Squawk Box and the CBS Evening News.Blakely is a serial entrepreneur, having started his first company, Advanced Refractory Technologies, Inc. (ART), in Buffalo, NY in 1981 at the age of 24. For the next twenty years, he served as ART's President & CEO, overseeing its growth from a 2 person operation to over 300 people with two international joint ventures and three domestic facilities. During his tenure, he established relationships with General Motors, Bekaert, Mitsubishi, Westinghouse, McDermott International, United Defense, and many others. The company was recognized as a worldwide leader in advanced materials when it was acquired by a subsidiary of Tyco International in June, 2001.Following the sale of ART, Mr. Blakely established a technology management consulting organization The InVentures Group which has provided technology assessments, business planning, and technology commercialization to several organizations, from start-ups to multi-billion dollar firms. The InVentures Group was instrumental in helping the University of Buffalo establish STOR (the Office of Science, Technology, and Economic Outreach) in 2001 and served as the interim Director of Commercialization.Blakely served as the President and CEO of TechSys, Inc., a NASDAQ listed company which developed new technologies for portable electric power generation, including solid oxide fuel cells, in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Adelan Ltd., in Birmingham, England. Blakely also assisted, as the President and CEO in the commercial transition of another development stage nanomaterials company, AP Materials, Inc.Mr. Blakely, who was elected a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society in 2001, received the R&D 100 Award in 1979 and 1985, was NYS Entrepreneur of the Year in 1995, has served on the boards of several public and private organizations, including the Buffalo-Niagara International Trade Council, the Western New York Technology Development Corporation, and the Buffalo Economic Renaissance Corporation.Keith is a native of Western New York, having attended the North Tonawanda Public School system from K 12. He completed a BS in Psychology and BA in Biology at SUNY Buffalo in two years time, graduating in 1976. Along with his wife, Lin, son Bret, two step-children and four grandchildren all live in Buffalo. He attributes his love for math and science to Mrs. Barstow, his second grade teacher at Ohio Elementary School, and Dr. Norman Schoell, one of his 5th grade teachers in the North Tonawanda Major Progress Program. More info at this external link:http://www.buffalostate.edu/depts/technology/NYSTE.
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