Ora Smith consults on projects in the technology
sector. Previously, he was CEO of Illinois Superconductor Corporation,
(now ISCO International) a leader in using external innovation
to bring high temperature superconductors into the commercial
wireless equipment marketplace.
Mr. Smith served as vice president and chief marketing officer
at Conductus. Both ISCO and Conductus were sited in the April
2005 Spectrum magazine as among the top seven most innovative
IPO’s out of 823 companies that went public from 1993-2002.
At Rockwell International, Mr. Smith was a corporate R&D
lab director and the company’s corporate director of external
technology development. He also served as the Industrial Research
Institute (IRI) Fellow in the White House Science Office while
at Rockwell.
Mr. Smith was president of the Science and Technology Campus
Corporation for over five years. This organization operates a
research park and provides technology commercialization functions
in affiliation with Ohio State University. He continues to be
active on the state of Ohio’s Industrial Technology Enterprise
Advisory Committee, chairing its technology investment tax credit
subcommittee. He has served on various boards of directors.
Mr. Smith received his SB and SM degrees in mechanical engineering
from M.I.T. and his JD from Harvard Law School.
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