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Mr. Brian Darmody,
Associate Vice President of Research and Economic Development
University of Maryland
Special Assistant Vice Chancellor for Technology Development
University System of Maryland

Brian Darmody is Associate Vice President for Research and Economic Development, and Special Assistant Vice Chancellor for Technology Development with the University System of Maryland.

Projects led by Darmody include organizing the University's first technology transfer office, authoring reforms to the State's ethics legislation for entrepreneurial start ups, developing legislation creating the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO), initiating Research Parks Maryland (RPM), the nation's first statewide research park organization, and serving as Director of the University of Maryland Center for Applied Policy Studies (UMCAPS). He is the principal author of the Power of Place, a national policy document focused on technology-led economic development and serves as co-principal investigator on the $3.5 million Proof of Concept Alliances, a Department of Defense funded commercialization project, and has served as a reviewer to the National Science Foundation and the National Academy of Science.

Darmody previously served as a staff member for the U.S. House of Representatives, the Maryland General Assembly in Annapolis, Maryland, and in the Office of the Attorney-Advisor, U.S. Health Care Financing Administration. In his role with the University System of Maryland, he focuses on improving technology commercialization across the University System of Maryland and representing higher education regarding BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure Commission) recommendations affecting federal facilities in the region.

He serves on local and national boards, including the Maryland Space Business Roundtable, Greater Baltimore Technology Council, the Maryland Technology Council Legislative Committee, and is President of the Association of University Research Parks, and previous Chair of the University of Maryland's Network of Entrepreneurs. He holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Baltimore and an undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland, College Park