WHEELING, W.V., Oct. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- James E. Goulka is the new Chief Executive Officer at the Robert C. Byrd National Technology Transfer Center.
Goulka comes to the NTTC from Scottsdale, Ariz., where he was president and CEO of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, and president of both the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and Taliesin Preservation, Inc., which is focused on preserving Wright's Wisconsin home. Prior to his affiliation with the Wright organizations, he was president and CEO of two technology companies based in his hometown of Chicago and in Minneapolis.
"The NTTC has a powerful mandate from its federal clients - NASA, the Mine Safety and Health Administration and the Missile Defense Agency," said Goulka. "My intention is to help the NTTC grow and to serve these clients and other potential clients in creative new ways."
Goulka sees the NTTC as an intermediary, bringing its federal clients together with private industry, academia and other federal agencies to share technologies that will advance the missions of its federal clients and result in new commercial products.
He expects the NTTC to expand in the near future, with the addition of staff in a variety of areas. With the NTTC based at Wheeling (W.Va.) Jesuit University, he also plans to initiate significant new collaborations with the University's academic departments to create opportunities for faculty involvement in NTTC as well as for student internships.
In addition to his tenure at the Wright organizations and the technology companies, Goulka served as chief operating officer of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., where he changed its focus from print to digital publishing of multimedia CD-ROMS and Internet-delivered content. His early career focused on corporate finance at Citibank (now Citigroup), Inc.; First National Bank of Chicago (now Bank One) and Chase Manhattan.
Goulka has served on many educational and cultural boards, including the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, Steppenwolf Theatre, Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois, Chicago Shakespeare, the Nathan Hale Foundation, the Dallas Zoo, and the Associate Board of the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. He has been a guest speaker at Harvard Business School; The Ohio State University; Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management; Marquette University; and Lake Forest College.
He earned both an MBA and a BA from Yale University and was a member of the charter class of Yale's School of Management.
For more information, please contact Steven Infanti, vice
president of public affairs at the NTTC, at 304-243-2308 or
sinfanti@nttc.edu.
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