Lisa S. Smith
Vice President of Marketing and Principal
ANGLE Technology

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Lisa S. Smith has fifteen years of incubator feasibility, planning and management experience, as well as regional technology-based strategy development experience. She currently leads ANGLE teams working to develop business incubator and accelerator initiatives in Research Triangle Park, NC, at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland and with Harford County, MD. In additional she leads a team assessing the feasibility of a Biotechnology Research and Development Center in Prince George’s County, MD.

Lisa has conducted Incubator Feasibility Studies throughout the State of Maryland. In addition to her current work, she has lead teams that conducted incubator feasibility studies for the City of Bowie and Towson University in Maryland, as well as for Allegany County, MD and the nine counties of Maryland’s Eastern Shore for the Chesapeake Bay Region Technical Center of Excellence (CBRTCE). Based on its work for CBRTCE, ANGLE was subsequently asked by US Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (EDA) to develop an Economic Adjustment Strategy for three Maryland Mid Shore counties, which included incubator planning and design and funding package development.

Lisa handled a 12-month contract for implementation planning and incubator project management for Frederick County’s initial technology incubator at Hood College, the Frederick Innovative Technology Center (FITCI) which opened in January 2005. This project has now expanded to a second location. In addition, she developed a marketing and client recruitment strategy for the new 40,000 sq. ft. Emerging Technology Center at Johns Hopkins Eastern in the City of Baltimore.

Lisa was part of the ANGLE team that conducted a program assessment for Incubator AMERICA! an international technology incubator program in partnership with Arlington County Economic Development, the Mason Enterprise Center of George Mason University and Source Office Suites. She was also part of the ANGLE team that undertook a study of the collaborative needs of federal scientists, companies and universities in the I-270 Corridor for the Technology Council of Maryland (TCM) and the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO).

Lisa played a lead role in the ANGLE Technology team that designed, and managed and marketed the BioAccelerator in Springfield, VA under contract to Fairfax County Economic Development Authority. Thisfive-year project targeted and served international biotechnology companies, as well as companies with federal contracts. Prior to joining ANGLE Technology, Smith led the development of Scotland’s technology incubator strategy in the U.S. Scottish Enterprise, the economic development agency for Scotland, created a network of technology incubators for Scottish companies called the Scottish Technology & Research (STAR) Centers. In 1999, Smith established the first STAR Center on the East Coast at Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology in Herndon, VA. Smith has been a member of the Maryland Business Incubation Association (MBIA) and is a former member of the Board of the Virginia Business Incubation Association (VBIA). She is a member of the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA), a frequent speaker at NBIA conferences and an editorial contributor to NBIA publications.

Lisa has established a network of industry and academic collaborators, as well as service providers for the FITCI, the Fairfax County BioAccelerator program and other incubator projects. In August 2000, she helped create the Maryland Scotland Alliance for Biotechnology to accelerate business development and research collaborations between Scottish and Maryland biotechnology companies and institutions. Lisa works with a range of industry, academic and venture capital contacts interested in supporting the technology industry in the Mid-Atlantic area. She has been a member of f the Technology Council of Maryland’s Bioscience Alliance (now MdBio) and the Virginia Biotechnology Association.

Lisa has Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a Master’s degree in Business from The American University in Washington, DC.