I love lists, data, statistics and all types of information. Every year, for over 40 years, my mother has purchased the Farmer’s Almanac for me.

America has many World Records. Here are a couple of questions for our Nanotechnology Community.
1) What D.C. Monument is the World’s tallest Obelisk?
2) Batavia, Illinois is the home to the World’s largest atom smasher. What is the name of the facility?

Today, we announce our Most Influential Nanotechnology Leaders List from 2011. I have enjoyed communicating with all these leaders in the Nanotechnology Community. The common thread amongst them is that they are all Nanotechnology Evangelists. Kudos to these leaders for their contributions to our Nanotechnology Community.

Dr. Ajay Malshe, Founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, NanoMech Inc.
http://www.nanomech.biz/company-profile/leadership/

Alain E. Kaloyeros, PhD, Senior Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, CNSE; Vice President and Special Advisor to the President, University-wide Economic Innovation and Outreach; Professor of Nanoscience
http://cnse.albany.edu/AboutUs/FacultyStaff/ExecutiveStaff/AlainEKaloyeros.aspx

Anil R. Diwan, PhD, Chairman and President, NanoViricides, Inc.
http://www.nanoviricides.com/board.html

Dr. Anita Goel, MD, PhD, Chairman & Scientific Director, Nanobiosym and Chairman & CEO, Nanobiosym Diagnostics
http://www.nanobiosym.com/our-team/chairman-and-ceo.html

David J. Arthur, Chief Executive Officer, SouthWest NanoTechnologies (SWeNT)
http://swentnano.com/about/management.php

Douglas W. Jamison, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Harris & Harris Group
http://www.tinytechvc.com/team.cfm

Fern P. O’Brian, Partner, Thompson Hine
http://www.thompsonhine.com/lawyer/FernOBrian/

Griffith A. Kundahl, Executive Director, Center of Innovation for Nanobiotechnology
http://www.nanobiotech.org/about-us/meet-our-team

Harry Bushong, President and Co-founder, nanoTox, Inc.
http://www.nanotox.com/management/management-team.html

James M. Hussey, Chief Executive Officer, member of the Board of Directors, NanoInk, Inc.
http://www.nanoink.net/management-team.html

Jeffrey Morse, Managing Director, National Nanomanufacturing Network, NSF Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
http://www.internano.org/index.php?option=com_internanodirectory&task=view&id=4&Itemid=179

Jess A. Jankowski, President and Chief Executive Officer, Nanophase
http://www.nanophase.com/about/executives.aspx

Jim Phillips, Chairman and CEO, NanoMech Inc.
http://www.nanomech.biz/company-profile/leadership/

Josh Wolfe, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Lux Capital
http://www.luxcapital.com/team/profile/josh-wolfe

The Honorable Kelly H. Carnes, President and Chief Executive Officer, TechVision21
http://www.techvision21.com/techvision/team/kellycarnes.html

Lloyd Whitman, PhD, Deputy Director, Center for Nanoscale Science & Technology (NIST)
http://www.nist.gov/cnst/whitman.cfm

Lynn L. Bergeson, Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.
http://www.lawbc.com/about/professional-resumes/attorneys-shareholders/

Dr. Mihail C. Roco, Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology, National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/eng/staff/mroco.jsp

Mostafa Analoui, PhD, Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences, The Livingston Group and Chairman and CEO of Cense Biosciences, Inc.
http://www.livingstonsecurities.com/about.php

Peter Hébert, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Lux Capital
http://www.luxcapital.com/team/profile/peter-hebert

Dr. Sally Tinkle, Deputy Director, National Nanotechnology Coordination Office of the National Science and Technology Council
http://www.internano.org/nms2011/tinkle

Scott Livingston, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Livingston Securities LLC.
http://www.livingstonsecurities.com/about.php

Scott E. Rickert, PhD, President, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Nanofilm
http://www.nanofilmtechnology.com/about_nanofilm/bio-scott.htm

Travis Earles, Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology Initiatives, Lockheed Martin Corporation

William Moffitt, President and Chief Executive Officer, Nanosphere
http://www.nanosphere.us/page/management-team

The answer to question one is The Washington Monument. The answer to question two is Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, named for Enrico Fermi.

Happy New Year and here is to a prosperous 2012.

Regards,

Vincent Caprio “Serving the Nanotechnology Community for Over a Decade”
Executive Director
NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
203-733-1949
vincent@nanobca.org
www.nanobca.org
www.vincentcaprio.org