NIST Selects Associate Director of Innovation and Industry Services

JDG and the National Institute of Standards and Technology are pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Phillip Singerman as its Associate Director of Innovation and Industry Services. Reporting to NIST Director, Dr. Pat Gallagher, Dr. Singerman will be responsible for the following activities at NIST: 1) the Technology Innovation Program, 2) the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and 3) the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program. Dr. Singerman, currently Senior Vice President of B&D Consulting, is a recognized national innovator in public/private partnerships to promote job creation and economic development through local technology-oriented federal/state/local programs. He has an in-depth expertise and broad experience with a variety of economic and business development programs, as an applicant for federal programs at the local and state levels, as a developer of effective grant programs at the regional and state levels, and as the Administrator of Commerce Department’s longest lasting and largest economic development grant program.

For NIST Press Annoucement, see: http://www.nist.gov/director/adii_010511.cfm.