SFI Summit Conference

Corey S. Goodman, Ph.D. - biosketch
Dr. Corey Goodman is a scientist, educator, and biotech entrepreneur.  With a B.S. from Stanford University and Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley, he spent 25 years as professor of biology at Stanford and Evan Rauch Chair of neurobiology and genetics at U.C. Berkeley, where he was Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and co-founder and director of the Wills Neuroscience Institute.  He is currently adjunct professor at U.C. San Francisco.

He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and American Philosophical Society, and recipient of many honors including, amongst others, the Alan T. Waterman Award, Canada Gairdner Award, March-of-Dimes Prize, and Reeve-Irvine Research Medal.

Dr. Goodman moved into biotechnology to help apply biomedical discoveries to human health.  He co-founded Exelixis and Renovis, and led Renovis as President and CEO from a private to public company until its acquisition by Evotec.  In 2007, he was recruited to be President and founder of Pfizer's Biotherapeutics and Bioinnovation Center, a new division focused on biologics, and a member of Pfizer's Executive Leadership Team. While at Pfizer, he designed and built a new entrepreneurial R&D model with a focus on fostering innovation and discovering and developing new biotherapeutics for major unmet medical needs.

Dr. Goodman is also a co-founder of Second Genome and Ossianix.  He is Chair of the Board of five biotech companies (Limerick, Second Genome, Oligasis, Ossianix, & NuMedii), Board member of two others (Mirna & NeuroTherapeutics), and advises other public and private companies.  He is Managing Director and co-founder of venBio LLC, a strategic capital biotech investment firm based on a new model of strategic collaboration with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies including Amgen, PPD, and others.

Amongst his many public policy roles, Dr. Goodman is on the Board of the California Council on Science and Technology, Pacific Institute, Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium, and is former Chair of the National Research Council's (NAS) Board on Life Sciences and past President of the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience.  He is also a member of the board of BayBio, QB3 (UCSF-UCB-UCSC) Industry Advisory Board, Stanford's BioX Biosciences Advisory Council, Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research (Harvard/MIT), and the Helmsley Trust for Type I Diabetes scientific advisory board.  He is on the Editorial/Advisory Board of the journals Science Translational Medicine and Neuron.

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Prof. John Day - a foremost pioneer of the internet, computer scientist and historian

John Day has been involved in research and development of computer networks since 1970, when they were the 12th node on ARPANet and has developed and designed protocols for everything from the data link layer to the application layer. Also making fundamental contributions to research on distributed databases. He managed the development of the OSI reference model, naming and addressing, and a major contributor to the upper-layer architecture.  He was a major contributor to the development of network management architecture, working in the area since 1984  and building and deploying a network management system, a decade ahead of comparable systems. Mr. Day has published Patterns in Network Architecture (Prentice Hall, 2008), which has been characterized (embarrassingly) as "the most important book on network protocols in general and the Internet in particular ever written."

Mr. Day is also a recognized scholar in the history of cartography, and contributed to exhibits at the Smithsonian.

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Mark O’Malley, founder and Director of the Electricity Research Centre

Mark O'Malley was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1962 and graduated with a BE and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Ireland in 1983 and 1987 respectively.  He is the Professor of Electrical Engineering at University College Dublin (UCD), founder and Director of the Electricity Research Centre (http://erc.ucd.ie) an industry supported research group, chaired by the Irish energy regulator.  His teaching and research interests are in Grid Integration of Renewable Energy.  He has spent sabbaticals in University of Virginia, University of Washington and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado.  He has received two Fulbright awards (1994 & 1999). 

In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and in 2008 he was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.  He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers of Ireland (IEI).

He has authored over 250 academic papers and supervised 17 PhDs to completion.  He is a member of the Engineering Sciences Panel of the European Research Council and previously a Member of the IEEE Ethics and Member Conduct Committee.  He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences Advisory Council Energy Panel and is the chair of the IEEE Power and Energy Society Task Force on Capacity Value of Wind, member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, member of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation Task Force on Integrating Variable Generation, member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Wind Power Coordinating Committee and an IEEE distinguished lecturer in the grid integration of renewable energy.  He is the Irish representative on the International Energy Agency Research Task 25:  Design and Operation of Power Systems with Large Amounts of Wind Power and is the lead author with responsibility for integration issues in the recent  International Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation.  In 2008 he received the Utility Wind Interest Group (UWIG), Achievement Award.  He acts as a consultant to all major players in the Irish Electricity industry and several US entities including the Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, giving advice on issues as diverse as electricity market design and the grid integration of renewable sources.   He acted as the chief technical consultant to the All Island Grid Study on the island of Ireland and has served on the Technical Review Committees of several US studies including the Eastern Wind Integration and Transmission Study and Western Wind and Solar Integration Study.