Executive Director of bwtech@UMBC
Ms. Hemmerly is Executive Director and President of the UMBC Research Park Corporation and Special Assistant to the Vice President for Institutional Advancement at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). She is responsible for overseeing a 515,000-square-foot high technology research and technology park (bwtech@UMBC), which includes three incubators, an accelerator and research park, and two technology commercialization programs (ACTiVATE and INNoVATE). bwtech@UMBC currently houses 85 companies (including 30 cybersecurity, 30 life science and 15 clean energy companies) and holds equity positions in 25 tenant companies.
Ms. Hemmerly sits on the boards of the New Markets Venture Fund, Greater Catonsville Chamber of Commerce (Vice President and Chair, Economic Development), Maryland Business Incubator Association, Research Parks Maryland, and is a member of Baltimore Angels. She has been honored as Business Person of the Year by the Greater Catonsville Chamber of Commerce, as well as one of the 50 Most Influential Marylanders and Maryland’s Top 100 Women, both by The Daily Record. In 2009, Ms. Hemmerly received one of SmartCEO’s Brava! Women Business Achievement Awards, and more recently, she received the 2011 Innovator of the Year Award recognizing bwtech@UMBC's innovations in cybersecurity.
Prior to joining UMBC, Ms. Hemmerly was Vice President of the Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC) serving as its Senior Lender and Director of the Enterprise Development Fund, the city’s venture capital fund. While at BDC, Ms. Hemmerly successfully started up the city’s first business incubator and spent two years as a business development officer marketing Baltimore to high technology businesses. Ms. Hemmerly has a B.S. (magna cum laude) in Mathematics from Moravian College and an M.B.A. from Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management.
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