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Creating a Legacy for the FutureEntrepreneurship|Community|Innovation|Economics

As a special welcome into 2020, we are proud to introduce an afternoon of interactive

vignette discussions with industry leaders sharing their insights and perspectives on

entrepreneurship, community, innovation and economics.

TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2020 The Athenaeum Club at Caltech, Pasadena, CA

11:30a.m.–12:00p.m. Reception and Networking

12:00–2:00p.m.Luncheon | Interactive Vignette Discussions

S P E C I A L T H A N K S T O O U R S U P P O R T E R S JET PROPULSION LABORATORY KARISH & BJORGUM, PC KVP THE O’NEILL COMPANY THE OPTICS INSTITUTE P2S ENGINEERING SADDLEBACK COLLEGE SKYLINE ORANGE COUNTY TALON COMPANIES

ALVAKA NETWORKS k ACE DIVERSIFIED k CALIFORNIA NANOSYSTEMS INSTITUTE – UCLA k

CSULB COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING k KIMBERLY C. COVEY CPA k k LEONARD HERNANDEZ, JR. k KREVAT ENERGY INNOVATIONS k

k RED MONKEY, INC. k R.E. DEVELOPMENT GROUP k

AEROVIRONMENT, INC AK CONSTRUCTORS, INC, THE BOEING COMPANY CMTC COLUMBUS TECHNOLOGIES CORENT FORTE DESIGNS IRVINE VALLEY COLLEGE


Creating a Legacy for the Future

Master of Ceremonies BILLY ROBBINS

Karish & Bjorgum, PC

Co-founder of Technolink

Sights & Insights from our Visionary Speakers

AARON ANDERSON Co-founder and CEO VUSAR LT. GENERAL LARRY JAMES Deputy Director JET PROPULSION LABORATORY BRENDEN MONAHAN Co-founder and CPO

VUSAR TERRY O’NEILL Founder and Chairman Emeritus THE O’NEILL COMPANY

KENT PETERSON Vice President and COO P2S Inc. KEVIN PETERSON President and CEO P2S Inc. STEPHANIE RIZZARDI Founder RIZZARDI ECONOMIC ASSOCIATES

BRANDT SEVERSON Manager, Software Engineering THE BOEING COMPANY

Forum Conductor

Forte Designs

Co-founder of Technolink


ForumFoundersMasterofCeremonies BILLY A. ROBBINS is an Intellectual Property Attorney for Karish & Bjorgum, PC, representing

clients in a variety of areas including patents, licensing, transactions, trademarks, copyrights and

unfair competition and trade secrets. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Robbins was with the Los

Angeles office of Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP after merging Robbins, Berlinger and Carson into

that office in 1997. He has worked as an adjunct professor at Southwestern University School of

Law. In addition, he was elected to the College of Fellows of the Institute for Advancement of

Engineering. Mr. Robbins was a Senior Technical Advisor for the People’s Republic of China in

its Star Program regarding Intellectual Property Laws and Technology transfer.

Mr. Robbins is frequently quoted in print and broadcast media outlets on issues dealing with

Intellectual Property Rights and Business Privacy and Protection. He continues his leadership

role as Co-founder and President of the Technolink Association, a trade association celebrating

its twentieth year. Mr. Robbins was recognized by the United States House of Representatives

for his leadership role with the Technolink Association. Mr. Robbins is an active member of the

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce and serves on the Global Initiatives Council. He is also

Co-chair of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society.

http://www.kb-ip.com

ForumConductorSSUSAN FORTE O’NEILL is Founder and President of Forte Designs. With over two decades of

foundational and trend-centric business experience, Ms. Forte O’Neill incorporates her

innovative tools and solutions to advise forward-thinking leaders on ways to generate economic

and human capital development for the well-being of their companies.

Ms. Forte O’Neill is Co-founder of the Technolink Association, a trade association celebrating its

twentieth year. Technolink Association was created to generate economic development in the

greater Southern California Region through “links” to national and international partners.

Ms. Forte O’Neill has been recognized for her endless efforts in strengthening the economic

and scientific cooperation between California and the State of Israel. She has also been cited

for her visionary leadership and community commitment by the United States House of

Representatives. She received special recognition from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for

her creation of Technolink Association and for her dedication to creating life-changing

opportunities for at-risk youths in the area. She has been recently recognized by the United

States Department of Homeland Security for her perseverance and dedicated leadership in

developing effective models for public private partnerships in the greater Southern California

region. She serves as a Public Private Partner for the United States Department of Homeland

Security. She has frequently been quoted in major media outlets as a thought-leader on industry

and societal trends. Ms. Forte O’Neill is also a published artist and author.

www.fortedesigns.net


MeettheSpeakers

AARON ANDERSON is Co-founder and CEO of Vusar. Aaron left his undergraduate studies

after the events of September 11, 2001 to serve in the U.S. Army as a Special Forces Engineer.

After being traumatically wounded in combat, Aaron medically retired and founded a defense

consulting firm where he conducted assessments of critical infrastructure projects in foreign

countries. In 2009, he founded the Green Beret Foundation, a non-profit organization.

Following his time in the special operations, he worked on the trade floor at PIMCO. He

currently serves on the board for the Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Merage

School of Business at UC Irvine. He holds a degree in international studies (summa cum laude)

and an MBA, both from UC Irvine. Aaron was a Poets and Quants “best and brightest” for the

Executive MBA class of 2018. https://www.vusar.co/

Lt. GENERAL LARRY JAMES is the Deputy Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). At

JPL, he is the Laboratory’s Chief Operating Officer responsible to the Director for the day-to-

day management of JPL’s resources and activities. This includes managing the Laboratory’s

explorations of the solar system and of Mars; the astronomy, physics, Earth science and

interplanetary network programs; and all business operations. These activities employ 5,000

scientists, engineers, technicians, and business support personnel, generating $1.5 billion in

annual revenues. Prior to his retirement from the Air Force and his appointment as JPL Deputy

Director, Lt. General James was the Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance

and Reconnaissance (ISR) at the Pentagon. He was responsible to the Secretary and Chief of

Staff of the Air Force for policy formulation, planning, evaluation, oversight, and leadership of

Air Force intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. As the Air Force's Senior

Intelligence Officer, he was directly responsible to the Director of National Intelligence and the

Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. He led more than 20,000 ISR officers across the Air

Force ISR Enterprise. Lt. General James’ 35-year military career included assignments as a

Space Shuttle Payload Specialist, GPS Program Manager, Titan IV Launch Director and

Commander of the 50th Space Wing at Schriever AFB, CO. James has also served on the staffs

of US Space Command, Air Force Space Command, and HQ Air Force. He was commander of

the 14th Air Force at Vandenberg AFB, CA, responsible for all military satellite, launch and C2

operations, and was Director, Signals Intelligence Systems Acquisition and Operations

Directorate, National Reconnaissance Office, Washington, D.C. He was Director, Space Forces

for Operation Iraqi Freedom at the Combined Air Operations Center, Prince Sultan Air Base,

Saudi Arabia.

www.jpl.nasa.gov


BRENDEN MONAHAN is Co-founder and CPO of Vusar. Mr. Monahan brings over 20 years of

product development experience with him to Vusar. His experience in product design and

manufacturing spans across multiple industries including aerospace, defense and industrial -

specializing in sensor technologies. He has held various roles at SAIC, Thermo-Fisher Scientific,

Cobham, Space Micro, Aethercomm & MSA Safety, paving the way for new technology

adoption. He founded two previous companies, Campfire Skewers and Microwave Power

Electronics. Mr. Monahan is a licensed PE, holds a PMP certification, BS in mechanical

engineering from University of New Hampshire and an MBA from UC Irvine (cum laude).

https://www.vusar.co/

TERRY O’NEILL is Founder and Chairman Emeritus of The O’Neill Company. Specializing in the

engineering of corporate employee benefit planning, executive benefit planning, and business

succession planning for organizations since 1978, The O’Neill Company also offers

comprehensive financial and wealth creation planning, estate and retirement planning, and

multi-generational estate wealth conservation for families and individuals. Mr. O’Neill was

nominated to be an advisor to the Federal Open Market Committee, was an advisor to the

Small Business Council of America, was an Associate Member of the Milken Institute and is

currently a Member of Roubini Global Economics. Mr. O’Neill has advised two California

Governors on economic and business issues.

He has served on committees that have advised the U. S. Treasury and Congress on numerous

financial topics. He has been a member of many national and international boards in the

financial sector including the International Forum, the Planned Giving Advisory Board at the

University of California, Irvine and the Association for Advanced Life Underwriting. He is the

author of The Life Insurance Kit (1993: Dearborn Financial Publishing), and has written for

numerous publications in the financial industry including Financial Services Week, Employee

Benefit Plan Review and The National Underwriter. Mr. O’Neill has appeared frequently as a

guest on television and radio to discuss the economic ramifications of issues in health care,

employee benefits and retirement planning and was profiled in Leadership Magazine and the

Orange County Register. He speaks regularly on economic and financial topics at national

conferences.

In 2016, Mr. O’Neill retired from daily operations from The O’Neill Company and works

exclusively on special consulting projects, and the majority of his time at the Institute for the

Study of Global Economics and Finance Institute which he founded in 2015. The Institute

focuses on the democratization of global economic information and advancing the frontiers of

economic thought.

http://theoneillco.com/


KENT PETERSON, PE is Vice President and COO at P2S Inc. with over 30 years of experience

working in the built environment. He provides leadership and technical direction for the firm’s

engineering practices. Mr. Peterson is recognized internationally as an energy efficiency and

sustainability expert. He was appointed by Congress in 2011 to the Office of Federal High-

Performance Green Buildings Advisory Committee for federal agencies as a representative of

the engineering profession and has been re-appointed though 2022. Mr. Peterson is an ASHRAE Distinguished Fellow and frequent author of articles and papers and

has made presentations to governments and professionals throughout the world on improving

building sustainability and energy efficiency. He is also dedicated to giving back to his faith,

local and professional communities and has served as President, Chairman or member on

numerous non-profit boards and committees.

http://www.p2seng.com/

KEVIN PETERSON, PE is President and CEO at P2S Inc. with over 30 years of experience

working in the built environment. He sets overall company strategy and gets the team invested

in company goals. Mr. Peterson has spent more than three decades in the electrical engineering

field, where he’s overseen waterfront, industrial, institutional, military, and commercial power

systems projects. He is an expert on medium voltage power distribution systems and zero-

emission shore power systems for port terminals.

Mr. Peterson is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the American Council of Engineering

Companies (ACEC) College of Fellows. In 2018, Kevin was named #21 in Glassdoor’s Top 50

CEOs in the United States for firms under 1,000 employees. The firm has also been named as

one of the best places to work in Los Angeles by the LA Business Journal every year since 2009.

Mr. Peterson also devotes himself to our community as Chairman of the YMCA of Greater Long

Beach board of directors, member of the board at the Memorial Medical Center Foundation,

member of the board of trustees of the Long Beach Ronald McDonald House and through many

other charitable activities.

http://www.p2seng.com/

BRANDT SEVERSON is an engineering leader at The Boeing Company with over 20 years of

experience in aerospace software systems. With a passion for technology, innovation, and

leadership, Mr. Severson works to solve the most challenging technology problems in the

defense and commercial aviation fields including missile defense, radio and satellite

communication, commercial flight optimization, underwater acoustics, and the application of

data analytics to support a wide range of operational efficiency challenges. Mr. Severson holds

a B.S. in Computer Science from California State Polytechnic University Pomona and an M.B.A.

with a focus in leadership and managing organizational change from Pepperdine University. https://www.boeing.com/


STEPHANIE RIZZARDI has offered expert economic consulting on over 3,000 cases,

providing court testimony in approximately 400 cases primarily throughout California, in

both Superior Court and District Court, since 1985.

As Principal Economist at Rizzardi Economic Associates, Ms. Rizzardi provides expert

analysis and testimony on personal injury, wrongful death, employment and business-

related damages cases. Prior to establishing her own company in 1996, she worked for IBAR

Settlement Company, Inc. beginning in 1985. While there she trained and supervised other

economists and acted as Assistant Vice President from 1989 to 1993. Ms. Rizzardi left IBAR

as Senior Associate Economist and Vice President in 1996.

She has spoken before the Nevada Trial Lawyers Association, Fresno County Trial Lawyers

Association, MCLE Class for Farmers Insurance Group and other groups. Ms. Rizzardi has

participated in numerous conferences as a presenter and discussant and published in a

variety of peer-reviewed journals pertaining to forensic damages.

Ms. Rizzardi completed her BA in Economics at Revelle College at the University of

California, San Diego and her MBA with a concentration in Finance, at the Claremont

Graduate University. She has also completed additional coursework at the Claremont

Graduate University, Center for Politics and Economics, in a Ph.D. Economics Program.

She belongs to numerous professional organizations, including the National Association of

Forensic Economics, the American Academy of Economic and Financial Experts (At Large

Board Member 2010-2013) and American Rehabilitation Economics Association (Internal

Vice President 1999-2000). She also holds a CEA (Certified Earnings Analyst) certification

from the American Rehabilitation Economics Association. Ms. RIzzardi is the Founder of the

non-profit, Pillows & Plenty, providing brand new clothing and other necessary items to the

children of low-income families in the greater Los Angeles area.

A Special Thanks to All of Our Military

& Public Safety Heroes for Their Honor

and Courage in Defending the

Democracy and Freedom of Our Great

Nation…


Founded in 1995 by Ssusan Forte O’Neill and Billy Robbins, Technolink Association began as a futurist conference to answer a need for a “Silicon Valley cluster” in Southern California with the core mission to expand economic development. Today, members of Technolink Association benefit from a club-like atmosphere that encourages the sharing of ideas and cutting-edge innovations among executives through themed forums and round table discussions.

Our Mission

Technolink Association is a coalition of national and international leaders from the fields of

Aerospace, Academia, Defense, Energy, Life Sciences, Innovation, Public Safety and Policy that

provides a bridge between public and private sectors to develop a virtual high technology corridor

in Southern California.

Our mission as a trade association is to serve as a resource center for emerging and start-up

companies and to enhance development of innovation through public and private partnerships. The

Association's aim is to link the business community with the collective technological resources of

organizations and institutions such as the California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion

Laboratory, the University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Irvine, California State

University, Long Beach and Saddleback College.

Throughout the years, the Technolink Association has proudly created “linkages” for many start-up

companies to enhance economic development throughout Southern California and continues to

support a plurality of high technology clusters by serving as a resource base for start-up companies

conceived from the universities and research institutions in the area. The Technolink Association is a

premier example of the positive aspects of government and industry partnerships.

To learn more, contact:

Ssusan Forte O’Neill

949.443.4026 • [email protected]


A SPECIAL THANKS TO:

LIZ RIVIERE, MARKETING DIRECTOR & SNAPSHOT EDITOR

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