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Entrepreneurs in Residence
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Summer Knight |
Terry Chase Hazell |
Terry Chase Hazell
Director, RampCorp
Entrepreneur in Residence, Springboard Enterprises
Terry Chase Hazell grew up in a family of entrepreneurs, she worked at a start-up biotech company at 15 and has been an advocate and coach for start-up technology companies ever since. She has advanced innovation and entrepreneurship as a successful start-up executive spinning out companies from Universities, as a university employee advancing innovation, and as a university advisor implementing new programs helping women become entrepreneurs and investors.
Her biotech-specific expertise is recombinant protein production, process scale-up and cGMP manufacturing. Hazell started her career in biotechnology at Martek Biosciences as a student researcher working with algae and oil production. Her first leadership position was managing the bioprocess scale-up facility at the University of Maryland where she developed and scaled the production of dozens of biologic products. She then managed clinical manufacturing projects at one of the most successful independent contract manufacturing organizations, BioScience Contract Production Corporation. Hazell was the founding CEO of a protein manufacturing and University of Maryland spinout company, Chesapeake PERL. She led the company from a University idea to a revenue producing and growing company. In 2003, she led the company through a merger with a competitor. Hazell serves as Director of SD Nanosciences, Inc., a start-up company spinning out of the University of Maryland. SD Nanosciences’ nanoparticle-based technology enables vaccine development and drug delivery. Hazell served as founding President and CEO, invested the first seed funding, developed the initial intellectual property, worked with Scientific Founders to win several research grants and customer financing. In Austin, Hazell served as a fractional Vice President of Terapio Corporation where she primarily focused on operations and outsourcing pharmaceutical manufacturing.
She has developed curriculum for and taught entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland College Park and at the award-winning ACTiVATE program. She led the first expansion of ACTiVATE from Maryland to Texas with support from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and led the Texas State ACTiVATE program from October 2009 until October 2010. Together with Robin Curle, she developed customized curriculum for Texas. Today, she is an Entrepreneur in Residence at both Texas State University – leading an entrepreneurship training and incubation program, RampCorp -- and at Springboard Enterprises, helping women access capital. She leads conferences and boot camps for entrepreneurship and recently led the entrepreneurship tracks of the Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Texas Conferences for Women.
She serves on several start-up company boards and advisory boards, is a member of the selection committee for the Texas Emerging Technology Fund, is co-author of House:work, a Woman’s Strategic Guide to Intellectual Property and is an Entrepreneur Columnist for the Austin Business Journal.
Summer Knight
Founder, Springboard Partners
Entrepreneur in Residence, Springboard Enterprises
Dr. Knight is an entrepreneur doctor turned businesswoman. She is a founder and leads Springboard Partners, a consulting group of CEO’s and powerful entrepreneurs who facilitate the rapid growth of scalable businesses. Dr. Knight also leads the DSK brand focused on empowering people to live their GREATest lives. Summer Knight loves to have fun, inspire people to succeed, and facilitate transformation in individuals and organizations.
As the former Chief Medical Officer of the State of Florida, Dr. Summer Knight worked with the Agency for Health Care Administration influencing Medicaid policy, health care facility regulations, and stakeholder interactions. Through this experience, Dr. Knight saw an opportunity to increase health care quality and stakeholder communication while abolishing fraud. Thus, she started her first company called IntegriCor, which stood for “Integrity Corporation.” Within years, this technology became the leading platform for long-term care integrity in several state markets.
Dr. Knight received her MD from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her MBA from Warrington College of Business at the University of Gainesville.
