Executive Council

Dr. Mark Maybury is a C-Suite Executive and Board Member with leadership success across public and private sectors and expertise in senior management, innovation commercialization, ventures investment, cybersecurity, AI/ML, IOT, SaaS, data analytics, energy storage, new business models, startup incubation and acceleration, revenue growth, margin expansion, lean manufacturing, global supply chains, and digital marketing. Dr. Maybury is Stanley Black & Decker’s first Chief Technology Officer and Board Director and Nominations and Governance Committee Chair of the Internet Sciences Inc. He serves as a Special Government Employee for the Defense Science Board providing strategy and technology advice to the Office of the Secretary of Defense as well as a director for the boards of the Connecticut Science Center and Mark Twain House and Museum. He is a former board member of the Advanced Cybersecurity Center (ACSC), the Object Management Group (OMG) which oversees the Industrial Internet Consortium, the USAF Scientific Advisory Board, and the Homeland Security S&T Advisory Committee. From 2010 to 2013, Dr. Maybury was Chief Scientist of the USAF serving as chief scientific adviser to the Chief of Staff and Secretary of the USAF. He served on the Steering Committee and Senior Review Group of the AF Scientific Advisory Board. Mark spent 27 years (1990 to 2017) at The MITRE Corporation, including as VP of Intelligence Portfolios and Director of the NIST-sponsored National Cybersecurity FFRDC (NCF) supporting the National Cyber Center of Excellence (NCCoE). He also served as VP and CSO and CTO of MITRE. He is an active Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, a Fed 100 awardee and the 2019 Veterans Advantage Veteran of the Year. Dr. Maybury is editor of Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces (AAAI/MIT Press 93), Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval (AAAI/ MIT Press 97), New Directions in Question Answering (AAAI/ MIT Press 2004), Multimedia Information Extraction (2012), co-editor of Readings on Intelligent User Interfaces (Morgan Kaufmann Press 1998), Advances in Text Summarization (MIT Press 99), Advances in Knowledge Management (MIT Press 2001), Personalized Digital Television (Kluwer Academic 2004), Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (Springer 2005), and co-author of Information Storage and Retrieval (Kluwer Academic 2000). He chaired the 2020 AAAI Spring Symposium on AI and Manufacturing and a frequent author and keynote speaker.

Experienced Vice President Of Technology and Provost with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in Educational Technology, Adult Education, Academic Advising, Grant Writing, and Higher Education Leadership. Unique strength is my ability to integrate technology and higher education. Primary Strengths: --Organization Building: I have created a college from scratch; two institutes; traditional degree programs; online degree programs; a mobile app; and a company to deploy the app. --High Technology Proficiency: Fluent and versed in most contemporary technologies, with a focus in EdTech; previous experience includes the development of a mobile app; director of two technology-based institutes; and clear understanding of the theories and values that drive technologies. --Expertise in Learning: 35 years working in both Higher Education and EdTech; served in roles at all levels of diverse learning organizations; have worked with multiple learning modalities. --Intellectual Ability: Current work is focusing on technologically supported curriculum development and deep learning and virtual reality in learning.

Philip is a developer, data engineer, and cloud architect for Ollion who specializes in designing production-grade generative AI solutions. He partners with businesses at the executive level to build impactful and scalable AI applications, ensuring that clients stay ahead in the rapidly evolving technological landscape.

Founded in 1898, PepsiCo is a food and beverage corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York, United States. Best known for its name-brand soft drink, Pepsi, the company manufactures, markets, and distributes grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. Its brands include Pepsi-Cola, Frito-Lay, Tropicana, Quaker, and Gatorade.