The BID Program has a staff of Ukrainian professionals including:

Academician Victor Baryakhtar Chairman, and Professor Oleksandr Slobodyanyuk, Executive Secretary of the Technical Evaluation Committee (The Expert Rada);
Dr. Volodymyr Andreev, Ukrainian Coordination Office (UCO) Acting Head and Kiev Small Business Incubator (KievSBI) Director;
Dr. Ihor Katerniak, Director for Development;
Dr. Inna Gagauz, Director of the Kharkiv Small Business Incubator (KharkivSBI).

The American staff includes:

Drs. Duane Shelton and George Mackiw, Director and Deputy Director of Loyola's International Technology Research Institute (ITRI);
Dr. George Gamota, In-Country Manager;
Dr. Robert Margenthaler, Director of the ITRI Business Development Division;
Dr. Alistair Brett, Director of Training;
and Mr. David Bailey, Director of Communications.

Technical Evaluation Committee (Expert Rada)

Academician Viktor Baryakhtar
(vg@baryakh.pp.kiev.ua)
is the Chairman of the Expert Rada for the BID Program. He is well known internationally for his pioneering work in magnetism, and has been a leading authority on problems related to nuclear power and safety, including Chernobyl; energy issues. He is the Vice-President of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, and was the first President of the Ukrainian Physical Society. He is a Member of the Science & Technology Council of the Ministry of Chernobyl; Member of the Science & Technology Council of the Ukrainian Government Committee on Urgent Accidents; and Adviser to the President of Ukraine on Nuclear Industry Problems. He is the chair of the committee for science and technology of the Kuchma-Gore Commission. He is fluent in English.

Ukraine Coordination Office

Dr. Volodymyr Andreev (vandr@mim.kiev.ua) is the Ukrainian Coordination Office Acting Head and KievSBI Director. He has a Candidate degree in physics and mathematics and is an experienced researcher who most recently was director of the small business venture using computer technologies for education. In 1995, he was co-director of Advanced NATO Workshop for Network Administrators. He is an expert on optical wave propagation, a professor of physics at the Kiev University, and was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Physical Society in 1990. He has industrial experience in optical fiber technology. Dr. Andreev is fluent in English, and has traveled extensively to the West. Most recently, he received a fellowship from the AAAS to spend three months in Washington, to learn the U.S. proposal process used by R&D funding agencies.

Ukraine Representation Office, Kiev, Ukraine

Ihor B. Katerniak (katerniak@mim.kiev.ua) is the Director for Development for the BID Program and Director for Technology Promotion Center at the Lviv Institute of Management. He has a Candidate degree in physics and Mathematics from Lviv University and an MBA from Lviv Institute of Management. He also took business courses and was an intern at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, and University City Center, Philadelphia. He has extensive experience in technology transfer, and has worked on several USAID sponsored programs. Most currently, he has become a consultant to the Ukrainian State Committee for Development of Entrepreneurs. He is fluent in English.

Kiev Small Business Incubator (KievSBI)

Professor Oleksandr Slobodyanyuk (slobod@office.ups.kiev.ua) is the Executive Secretary of the Expert Rada for the BID Program. He is also a vice president of the Ukrainian Physical Society (UPS) and head of the UPS Special Ventures. He is a professor at Kiev University, where he is a scientist in the field of applied optics. He holds 15 patents and has experience in laser applications. He has experience working in industry and has made extensive trips to Germany and the U.S. over the last 15 years. He has management experience in leading a team of scientists and engineers and received his D.Sc. degree in 1995. Professor Slobodyanyuk was one of the founding members of the UPS. He was its first Chairman of the Coordinating Board responsible for the American Physical Society grant program in Ukraine --the first large scale international scientific funding program in Ukraine. As Chairman since 1990, he gained official recognition for the UPS as a nongovernment organization, helped it acquire legal status, set up legal system of fund transfers from the U.S., and was instrumental in gaining a favorable tax status for the UPS grants. In 1995 he was elected Vice President of the UPS. He is fluent in English, German and Russian.

Eugenia Severianina (sever@mim.kiev.ua) is the Office Manager for the Ukrainian Coordination Office. She has a Candidate degree in physics and mathematics, and has had extensive experience working in the US for the International Science Foundation. She is fluent in English.

Kharkiv Small Business Incubator (KharkivSBI)

Inna Gagauz (gagauz@isc.kharkov.ua) is the Director of Kharkiv incubator (KharkivSBI). She has 23 years of experience in the science and engineering fields of spectrometric and optical characteristics of alkali halide and other crystals and also in plastic scintillators studies. In 1975, she graduated from the Radio Engineering Department of Kharkiv Aircraft Institute (Technical University). She is a scientist at the Institute for Single Crystals, Deputy Head of Alkali Halide Crystal Department of Scientific Technology Center "Institute for Single Crystals". She has a certificate of High State Courses of advanced training for engineers and research workers on the problems of the science of theory and practice of patenting and inventions. She was awarded by the medal "Honor Inventor of the USSR". She is a member of the Ukrainian Nuclear Society. Mrs. Gagauz is an author or co-author of over 30 scientific articles and 8 inventions. Mrs. Gagauz is now engaged in using her scientific expertise to assist Ukrainian small businesses in the development, evaluation, and commercialization of technologies.

U.S. BID Headquarters

Dr. R. D. Shelton (rds@loyola.edu) is the Director of ITRI and the Director of BID Program. He has led foreign technology assessments since 1984, as a policy analyst at NSF, and now as ITRI Director. He summarized the findings and policy implications of these studies in Benchmark Technologies Abroad: Findings from 40 Assessments 1984-94, published as an ITRI Monograph in 1994. After years of focusing on Japanese technology assessments, Dr. Shelton organized an expansion worldwide by raising funds for studies of technologies in Western Europe and the Pacific Rim. To take advantage of the new glasnost policy of openness, he organized and led ITRI's first delegation to the Soviet Union - a study of nuclear power plant controls in 1991. Subsequently he has reviewed Ukrainian R&D in Kiev, Kharkiv, and Odesa. Dr. Shelton has served as a professor at several universities, including chairing departments of engineering, computer science, and applied mathematics. In 1994 he was awarded an IEEE Congressional Fellowship and in 1995 served as a legislative assistant to Representative Lloyd Doggett from Austin, Texas.

Dr. Bob Margenthaler (crm@loyola.edu) is Director of the ITRI Business Development Division and Professor Emeritus in the Joseph A. Sellinger, S.J., School of Business and Management at Loyola College in Maryland and served a six and one-half year tenure as Dean of the Sellinger School. While Dean, Dr. Margenthaler established, with the support of business executives, three Centers of Excellence to serve his vision for the Sellinger School, i.e., to build partnerships with the business community. He assumed the responsibilities of Executive Director for the Lattanze Center for Executive Studies in Information Systems in April 1997, a center focused on strategic issues of importance to information technology executives. He began service of the Business Development Division of ITRI on September 1, 1998. Dr. Margenthaler has worked extensively with small business incubators in the United States. For the field study activity in the MBA programs, he and his students concentrate on small businesses and the development of business plans for their future growth. He is a regular participant in the Small Business Administration's Program for Minority Business Executives. He has also conducted international seminars and courses, focusing on strategic management and total enterprise simulation, at Egyptian Ministry of Defense in Cairo, Renmin University in Beijing, City Government of Shanghai, XLRI in India, and ILADES in Santiago, Chile. Prior to joining Loyola College, Bob gained experience in a 24-year career in the United States Air Force. He held positions in research and development for space operations; chief scientist in the Logistics Directorate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Pentagon; and faculty member with the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the National Defense University in Washington, D.C.

Dr. George B. Mackiw (mackiw@loyola.edu) is the Deputy Director of ITRI. He has a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Virginia. He is Professor and former Chair of Mathematical Sciences. He has an extensive list of research publications and was recognized as the outstanding teacher of the year by Loyola College in 1982. Most recently, led Loyola College's successful effort to secure a Phi Beta Kappa chapter. He speaks and writes Ukrainian fluently. Dr. Mackiw spent ten weeks in the Ukraine in the summer of 1998 working with the Kiev and Kharkiv Small Business Incubators.

Dr. George Gamota (ggamota@erols.com) is Associate Director of ITRI and In-Country Manager of the BID Program in the Ukraine. Dr. Gamota is an expert on U.S. and foreign technology. He has been a frequent visitor to the Ukraine since 1992 and is the author of the five volume report: Science, Technology and Conversion in the Ukraine. For his work in the Ukraine, he was awarded an Honorary Membership in the Ukrainian Physical Society, the first foreign member to receive such a distinction. He has experience in creating small business ventures and was the founder and Chairman of the Board of the Michigan Research Corporation, a venture capital company created to help spinoff businesses from research performed at the University of Michigan. Also, while Division President at Thermo Electron Corporation in Waltham, Massachusetts, he acquired and restructured a $17 million company, created a new laser company, and a new business line in thermoelectric coolers for the electronics and recreation industry. Dr. Gamota is also an educator, who has experience in adult training. During the early 90s, he was Director of the MITRE Institute, a training unit of the MITRE Corporation, a major engineering firm. He also taught at the University of Michigan, where he was Director of the Institute of Science and Technology, an interdisciplinary unit focusing on applied research and high-technology business development.

Dr. Alistair Brett (alistairb@erols.com) is the Head of the BID Program Special Projects Section and also directs training and evaluation. Dr. Alistair Brett is a principal in the Technology Education and Communications Institute Inc., a company specializing in training for technology development and transfer. He is also a Senior Associate at Oxford Innovation Ltd. (UK). Dr. Brett was formerly Director of Technology Management and Transfer for Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Brett served as a consultant for the Business and Technology Centers Division of Control Data Corporation, where he helped design and implement strategies for new business incubators. He has run national and international conferences on technology commercialization, and is co-editor of the book; University Spinoff Companies. He was also principal consultant for the formation of two seed capital funds. Dr. Brett served on the National Board of Advisors for the U.S. Federal Laboratory Consortium. He was Virginia Tech Project Manager for the USAID grant to develop the International Business and Technology Incubator in Moscow. In this position he was responsible for prime contractor project oversight, and was in charge of business training program development, American-Russian liaison, and funding support from European organizations. Dr. Brett is currently assisting in the development, in Central and Eastern Europe of the global Master of Science degree in Technology Management & Commercialization with the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.

David E. Bailey (ebailey@idt.net) is Director of Communications for the Ukrainian BID Program. He started Electronic Knowledge Corporation in 1993, which specializes in international science and technology information for business, industry, and government. Before starting Electronic Knowledge Corporation, Mr. Bailey worked on-site at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), as a contractor monitoring international technology developments for DARPA's technical program managers. Mr. Bailey is currently involved with international business development and marketing initiatives and was one of the principals in the development of the Russian incubator program. Mr. Bailey recently completed a jointly funded U.S. Department's of State and Commerce project which involved the research, composition, and editing of the publication, Compendium of Foreign Science and Technology Information Sources in the Federal Government and Select Private Sector Organizations.