Board of Directors
Chair
Dale Dekker, AIA
Registered architect and planner, a business leader, and an original founder of Dekker/Perich/Sabatini design firm
Vice Chair
Tanner Schaub, PhD
Director, Research Core Program, Office of the Vice President for Research, NM State University (NMSU)
President Vice President Secretary
David L. Perkins, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Director of Center for Personalized Medicine, UNM HSC
Christos Christodoulou, PhD
Dean of the School of Engineering at The University of New Mexico
Jennifer Hernandez Gifford, PhD
Asso. Professor in the Dept. of Animal Range Sciences at NM State University
Greg Byrnes
Executive Director of the NM Biotechnology & Biomedical Assoc.
Tom Kieft, PhD
Microbiologist in Biology Dept. at NM Institute of Mining & Tech (NM Tech)
Paul Laur
Mercury Bio Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Francisco Pallares, DED
Director of Business Development at Spaceport America
Nora Sackett
NM Economic Development Department Director of Special Projects
Prisca Tiasse, PhD
Microbiologist & CEO and Founder of The Community Lab
