What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Hosting a dinner party with guests John Oliver, Tina Fey, Kate McKinnon and Seth Myers.

Which living person do you most admire? 
Gordon Moore – co-founder Intel and author of Moore’s Law. If I could choose someone who has passed, I would choose Fred Rogers.

Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Rasputin.

What is it that you most dislike?
Unkindness towards others.

Which talent would you most like to have?
Olympic class speed.

If you could know one thing about tech transfer 20 years ago - that you know now - what would it be?
Two decades ago, I was working as the R&D director for Johnson Polymer, a private, specialty chemical company. We had productive relationships with university research groups across the US and Canada. We supported some of their research, hired their students and occasionally paid for some sponsored research. But I was really missing the big picture. If I knew then what I know now, I would have looked for universities with federally sponsored research that was advancing science in the areas critical to my company. We could have identified key pieces of technology and acquired the rights to it before it was published. I wasn’t aware that I had the ability to leverage the power of federal R&D spending that aligned completely with my company’s interests. I would have been able to stretch our R&D dollars much further. Who knows, maybe I could have made CEO (wink).