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2012 Innovator of the Year Winners

Gaith Abdo

Cut2it Inc. ____________________________________6

Chester “Chet” Burrell

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield ________________________4

William F. Childs IV

Chaney Enterprises ______________________________7

Alexis J. Coates & Granville Templeton III

1sqbox______________________________________8

Comcast ____________________________9

Gregory D. Cooper

Pixelligent Technologies LLC__________________________10

Barbara Hutchinson

Chesapeake Cardiac Care PA ________________________11

Deepak Jain

AiNET LLC __________________________________12

Martin Lampner

Chimes ____________________________________13

Andrew Lincoln

MedStar Sports Medicine Research Center __________________14

Jamie McDonald

GiveCorps __________________________________15

Joseph Mearman

Energy Efficient Technologies LLC ______________________16

Sheela Murthy

Murthy Law Firm ________________________________17

Carol Politi

TRX Systems __________________________________18

Suzanne Thompson

HealthPlan Headquarters____________________________19

Natasha Thurmon

Mindful Mentors Planting Seeds ________________________20

Deborah Tillett

Emerging Technology Centers ________________________21

Vorbeck Materials, Corp. ____________________22

Kathy E. Wilmot

Wilmot Modular Structures Inc. ________________________23

Min Wu

University of Maryland, A. James Clark School of Engineering ________24

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The Daily Record initiated the Innovator of the Year program to seek out and recognizeMaryland organizations and individuals who have demonstrated the spirit of innovation by cre-ating products, services or programs that benefit their businesses, industries or communities.

Nominations for the award were solicited from the public and judged by The Daily Record.The judging criteria were as follows:

Originality

Is the idea truly creative and unique? Is it a “wow”?

Power

What is the impact of innovation on the business, industry and community? Does it solve a

problem?

Challenge

How difficult was the idea to implement? Were there major obstacles? What resources had to

be committed?

Value

Can the results of the innovation be measured in terms of new revenue or cost savings or in

intangible ways, such as health or quality of life?

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TOP INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR

Chester “Chet” Burrell

President and CEO, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield

What is the greatest innovation of our time?

The mapping of the human genome will give rise

to all kinds of discoveries.

The Daily Record’s 2012 Innovator of the Year 5

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield’sPatient-Centered Medical Home Pro-gram, developed by President andCEO Chester “Chet” Burrell, is a dou-ble innovation.

Not only does one of the nation’slargest medical home programs helphigh-risk patients get better medicalcare, but it also assures that the cost forproviding those services becomes costeffective.

“The central idea is we create a‘home’ built around a primary carephysician,” Burrell said.

Doctors in the program write careplans for patients suffering from multi-ple chronic conditions such as dia-betes, heart issues or obesity —conditions that otherwise may haveprompted patients to be seeing severaldoctors as well as routinely landingthem in the hospital. Along with thehealth plans, physicians provide moremonitoring and follow-up, assisted byregistered nurses devoted solely to theprogram.

“The goal is to prevent the patient

from having to go into the emergencyroom,” Burrell said, instead receivingquality care in the familiar surround-ings of home.

Additionally, the patient has a sin-gle medical record available on theweb for his or her caregivers, andthere is an effort to teach patients bet-ter health habits, improving their qual-ity of life and cutting down theexpense of more extensive medicalcare. In the program’s first year, a sav-ings of $40 million was reported, witheven greater savings seen for the fu-ture.

This summer, CareFirst wasawarded a $24 million Health Care In-novation Award from the Centers forMedicare & Medicaid Services to funda three-year program designed toserve 25,000 Medicare beneficiaries inMaryland.

“The award from CMS is furtherrecognition of the promise of our pro-gram to improve care for those pa-tients with the greatest health needswhile taking steps to slow the growth

of health care costs,” Burrell said whenthe award was announced.

Inspiration for developing newhealth care programs comes “fromseeing what people go through. … Iget endless stories and then you getideas — what if we do things differ-ently?” he said.

Burrell became president andCEO in 2007 of the health care com-pany that covers 3.4 million sub-scribers in the mid-Atlantic region. Hehas had an extensive career in thegovernment, nonprofit and for-profitsectors, focusing on health care pol-icy, program development and infor-mation technology.

Before joining CareFirst, Burrellwas chairman and CEO of RealMedCorp. in Indianapolis. Under his lead-ership, the company became a newform of electronic claims clearing-house, bridging providers and all gov-ernment and commercial payers in theUnited States. He also led NovalisCorporation, a managed care andhealth technology company.

PHOTOS BY ERIC STOCKLIN

What is the most important innovation of our time?

I think the most important innovation in recent years is the Internet. It

has affected every aspect of our lives and forever changed our world.


Gaith Abdo, founder of startup companycut2it Inc., in Columbia, said he never knowswhen inspiration might come to him, whetherit’s waking up in the early morning hours witha thought “or even in a restaurant writing thingsdown on a napkin.”

He has spent the past several years develop-ing “cut2it,” which he describes as “a patent-pending cloud and mobile technology platformthat will revolutionize the consumption of on-line media, allowing integration, synchroniza-tion and interactivity within any video”whether it’s a teacher needing a few details forthe class, a lengthy video of a family party andyou just want to see grandpa blowing out thecandles or surveillance tape a police agencyneeds just for the big moment in the investiga-tion. In the words of the company’s motto, theprogram allows you to effortlessly “cut to thegood stuff.”

The innovation earned Abdo the HowardCounty EDA achievement award, the Mind-Share Coolest Technology of the Year Awardand Race for Innovation Award.

Abdo has more than 36 years in the opera-tion and management of national and interna-tional enterprises. He has been active in thelocal technical community since 1993, when hewas vice president of Trident DevelopmentCorp. After that, he served as president of Tech-nology Transfer Inc. In 2007, cut2it was estab-

lished.Abdo holds a bachelor’s degree in architec-

ture and engineering from the University ofAlexandria and post-professional advancedstudies in the master’s program at the Univer-sity of Maryland. He held adjunct faculty posi-tions at Howard Community College,Montgomery College and Anne Arundel Com-munity College and is a founding member ofthe Howard County Tech Council, a member

of Leadership Howard County, STEM Busi-ness and Education Coalition and other com-munity and interfaith groups.

“Innovation, for me, is creating some-thing that can improve people’s lives, mak-ing it easier to do hard tasks or allow betterutilization of their resources, improve theirhealth and connect them together so no onefeels isolated or not part of the global com-munity,” Abdo said.

Gaith Abdo

Founder and CEO, Cut2it Inc.

JOSH COOPER

What does innovation mean to me?

While we are proud of our new products and improvements, I think it is

innovative to go back to the basics, just to give yourself and your busi-

ness a check-up and re-evaluate where you have been. Many times, it

can give you a new perspective on where you can go in the future.


“We believe the best ideas come from peo-ple closest to the work,” William F. Childs IV,president and CEO of Chaney Enterprises,said recently.

Waldorf-based Chaney Enterprises pro-duces concrete and aggregates for homeown-ers and contractors.

“Innovation is one of our 10 companygoals,” Childs said, listing some of Chaney’smost recently developed products, includinga smartphone application that allows contrac-tors to estimate what they’ll need for the joband “pervious” concrete that channels waterstraight into the ground “through nature’s pu-rification system” rather than running off intostreams.

The innovation that has given him themost pride, he said, is the “Patriot Barrier,”developed after 9/11, which looks like atypical wall, but has a hidden “vehicle-ar-resting cable system” to protect buildingsand those inside. The barrier can beequipped with listening and radiation-mon-itoring devices.

He said he gains inspiration for his workthrough “a love of people, a love of the indus-try and the desire to be the best.” The busi-ness model also includes a component forgiving back with a longstanding tradition ofdonating 10 percent of the firm’s net profits tocharity.

Childs has spent his entire professional

career in the construction industry, joiningChaney Enterprises in 1992 as vice presi-dent of sales and marketing. He was pro-moted to president in 1998 and has servedas president and CEO since 2000. Childsgraduated from St. Paul’s School in Brook-landville and received a bachelor’s degreein business administration from LynchburgCollege.

Childs has served on several boards, in-

cluding the Maryland Ready Mix ConcreteAssociation, National Ready Mixed Con-crete Association, RMC Research and Ed-ucation Foundation, Massachusetts Instituteof Technology Concrete SustainabilityHUB Advisory Council, Maryland Trans-portation Builders and Materials Associa-tion and the Eugene Chaney Foundation.He also is active in several community andcivic organizations.

William F. Childs IV

President and CEO, Chaney Enterprises

JOSH COOPER


In this digital age, using a tablet in schoolhas a whole new meaning for students inclassrooms being serviced by 1sqbox, a com-pany that manages a student’s education —from textbooks to homework assignments tolearning their grades — on a computer.

The company was co-founded by Alexis J.Coates, chief technical officer, and GranvilleTempleton III, who serves as CEO. Theyhave started with three Baltimore areaschools, and there are plans to bring entireschool districts into the program. Coates alsosees their innovation being used by on-lineschools and colleges.

“We give them a package deal. It’s not justsoftware, but we built our own tablet,” Tem-pleton said. “It’s blue, and the kids love it.”

Teachers also are fans, he said. “They likehow they can put in lesson plans, tests andhomework.”

In addition to schools saving money onbuying actual textbooks, Templeton sees theadvantage of “killing the digital divide” be-tween students who have home computersand those who can’t afford them.

“1sqbox is providing one of the most in-novative software applications of our timebecause it focuses on the end users, theteachers, students, principals and parents,and the focus is on pioneering learning andstaying connected in real time via new tech-

nology,” Coates said.Before starting the company, Coates

taught a variety of software classes at theCommunity College of Baltimore Countyand was CEO of Devnix Technology, whichprovided computer training and system de-sign for Baltimore city government and pri-vate firms. He also has served as an advisorto BMORENEWS.com, a news and infor-

mation provider offering insight into the fu-ture of small business and technologygrowth.

Templeton is a business attorney, found-ing the Templeton Law Group in 2004. Thegroup handles litigation involving corpora-tions, universities, insurance companies, per-sonal injury, criminal defense and estateplanning.

Alexis J. Coates &

Granville Templeton III

Co-Founders, 1sqbox

ERIC STOCKLIN


When it uses ground-breaking, sometimes revolutionary,

thought processes to solve a current conundrum that is plaguing our

society. Although a current societal challenge that needs a solution

is occasionally unrecognized, when an innovation is radical, humanity

always benefits immensely from the shift that is caused by all

innovative advances.

— Granville Templeton III

What does innovation mean to you?

Looking beyond the horizon and leveraging a core strength to

position the company to meet the ever-evolving needs of customers.

— Tom Coughlin


When Comcast launched XFINITYHome this spring, it enabled customers toride the cutting edge of personal technology:smart homes.

XFINITY Home is, in part, a home secu-rity system, but its capabilities are muchgreater, allowing customers to remotely con-trol lights, temperature, motion detectors,wireless cameras and other systems.

Smart-home technology is still new, butComcast Regional Senior Vice President TomCoughlin recently predicted it will soon becommonplace: “It’s the future.”

Imagine being on vacation and receivinga text alert that your home’s motion detectorhas been triggered, along with a video clipfrom a nearby security camera. Picture con-trolling your house lights from your iPad, orreceiving an email alert if your security sys-tem wasn’t disarmed at a certain time, lettingyou know your child has not yet arrivedhome from school.

Inspiration for the system came fromrecognition of the huge capacity of Comcast’sbroadband network, Coughlin said. Withcable television, high-speed Internet andphones already piped into customers’ homes,smart-home capabilities were a natural extension.

“We looked at the home security businessand thought with all the innovation and tech-

nology and speeds that broadband pipes de-liver now, maybe we could transform it andtake it to a new level,” Coughlin said.

To make it happen, intensive preparationwas required internally: “There was a lot ofcoordination and a lot of training that neededto take place.” Since then, customers havebeen equally enthusiastic about the system’ssecurity and what you might call “the cool

factor” ¾ say, using a smart phone to turn onthe air conditioning before arriving home.

While other companies are beginning tooffer similar services, Coughlin said he be-lieves Comcast has had a head start. He espe-cially likes the idea that XFINITY Home canhelp consumers control energy usage: “Homeautomation and energy management defi-nitely is the future.”

Comcast

XFINITY Home

MAXIMILIAN FRANZ


The most important innovation of our time is how the concept

of innovation has evolved and is now applicable for all aspects

of life. This view has been greatly shaped by Peter Drucker, who de-

scribed how innovation can be systematically studied and made

a systematic part of our work instead of just waiting for a

spark of inspiration to occur.


Nanotechnology presents numerous chal-lenges, one of which is preserving qualitywhen production scales up from small bits inthe laboratory to full-fledged manufacturing.

Once the team at Pixelligent TechnologiesLLC solved that problem for its innovativeuse of zirconia and hafnia nanocrystals, itcleared the way for a host of commercial ap-plications.

As the company gears up for pilot manu-facturing, its new challenge is figuring outhow to take advantage of the nanocompositesin products ranging from industrial lubricantsto LEDs. The materials are perfect for com-mercial uses, said Founder and Chief Tech-nology Officer Gregory D. Cooper. Whenadded to plastics, the nanocrystals make themharder, more scratch-resistant and morechemical- and corrosion-resistant. They alsoimprove optical properties.

For example, Pixelligent’s special blend ofnanocrystals and plastics can brighten smart-phone and television screens, increase thedurability of computer chips and strengthenpolymer composites, among other solutions.Pixelligent is still evaluating the materials, butthe potential applications for electronics andindustry are huge.

Cooper, who founded Pixelligent soonafter earning his doctorate at the Universityof Maryland, attributed his team’s success to

sheer dedication: “We have a bunch of bril-liant people who worked incredibly hard todevelop this innovation.”

Pixelligent started out in the university’sincubator program, but last year moved to a14,000-square-foot space at Holabird Indus-trial Park in Dundalk.

The market has already given the innova-tion a warm welcome. Customers who have

seen the nanocomposites report that they arethe best materials they’ve ever seen and pro-vide a solution the companies need, Coopersaid.

“Those have been moments where wesaid, ‘We really have something here,’ whenyou get lots of external validation of peoplesaying the same thing,” Cooper said. “It’sbeen an exciting few years here.”

Gregory D. Cooper

Founder/CTO, Pixelligent Technologies LLC

ERIC STOCKLIN


An innovation is an out-of-the-box idea that can lead to benefits in

ways that one would not have expected or thought of.


As physicians learn more about heart dis-ease, obstructive sleep apnea and other sleepdisturbances are emerging as key culprits.When Dr. Barbara Hutchinson and her part-ners at Chesapeake Cardiac Care recognizedthat connection in their patients, they took anunusual step to address the problem andopened what they believe is the state’s firstsleep lab in a cardiology clinic.

If sleep disorders are not diagnosed, effortsto alleviate high blood pressure, hypertensionand arrhythmias can be ineffective, Hutchin-son said.

“Sleep-related problems that are untreatedcan result in uncontrolled high blood pres-sure,” she said. “So while we are treating highblood pressure with medications, if we don’tget to the true cause of it, we’ll be spinning ourwheels.”

The first step is to diagnose patients’ sleepquality, and that’s where the sleep lab comesin. Its two bedrooms are outfitted like cozyguest rooms, with soothing colors and com-fortable mattresses. Since February, more than200 patients have spent the night at the labunder the watchful eye of a polysomnogra-pher, who monitors brain waves, heartrhythm, respiration, oxygenation and othermeasurements.

“We thought the best place to start was re-ally the patients we treat for cardiovascular

problems and start to screen them for sleepproblems,” Hutchinson said. “We were justamazed at the number of patients that hadboth.”

Among other improvements, some pa-tients have been able to reduce blood pressuremedications once they addressed sleep distur-bances.

Hutchinson said she began looking for

other causes of cardiac problems after seeinga number of patients who were receiving con-ventional treatment, yet continued to struggle.That led her to examine the medical literatureand other sources pointing to the role of sleep.

“The patients are enjoying it,” Hutchinsonsaid of the sleep management program. “Ithink what they like is the blend of treatments.”

Barbara Hutchinson

MD, PhD, FACC, Chesapeake Cardiac Care PA

MAXIMILIAN FRANZ

Deepak Jain, founder and president ofAiNET LLC, is passionate about improvingenergy consumption in data centers. That’sno small feat when considering that one cen-ter can gobble as much power as 10,000homes.

AiNET also specializes in cloud servicesand fiber optic networks. Jain said recentlythat he recognized early on that governmentand corporate customers who rely on datacenters to house critical computer systemsneeded more sophisticated ways to manageenergy usage. He took on the challenge, andAiNET has been building better systems eversince. It improved the multilayered systemsrelied on by hospitals, for example, by iden-tifying 12 common system disruptions.

“This is a way of improving the solutionfor everybody in the industry,” Jain said. “Welike solving hard problems.”

Now, with more than 70 patent applica-tions in the pipeline, AiNET also has devel-oped technologies that make energy systemsmore efficient.

“We think our latest system, which we areimplementing in our newest data center, will bea 9 percent savings over all comparable systemsin the world, which is a big deal,” Jain said.

That new center is CyberNAP, a 300,000-square-foot data center in Glen Burnie thatopened this summer and showcases AiNET’s

next-generation systems. AiNET also has devised a robust storage

network for cloud computing that’s proven tobe so successful, several manufacturers arerecommending it to government clients.

And in May, AiNET launched MicroMe-tering, which cuts costs for data center cus-tomers by charging them for actual power useinstead of power capacity.

With clients like Verizon, Georgetown Uni-versity and Lockheed Martin depending onAiNET, Jain said he takes pride in building high-performing systems that are both reliable and ef-ficient. Those systems, in turn, enable largeproviders to achieve their own critical missions.

“We are their secret Swiss army knife thathelps them cut through the tough problems,”Jain said.


Innovation is an incredibly important aspect of our work.

We’ve had to develop solutions to problems that had previously

never been solved — monitoring systems to remove “bumps in the road,”

“green” energy systems and vastly improved storage and

cooling systems — just to solve our customers’ challenges.


Deepak Jain

Founder and President, AiNET LLC

ERIC STOCKLIN

Although the goals of a nonprofit are al-truistic, the bottom line is it has to be finan-cially stable.

With that in mind, Martin Lampner, pres-ident and CEO of Chimes Family of Services— an international multi-service agency deliv-ering programs to people with developmentaldisabilities, mental illness and other special-ized needs — is being a good steward of finan-cial donations and also helping theenvironment.

Several years ago, Lampner said, he wasintrigued by the use of solar panels. “We weretoo small for any of the major [energy] play-ers, but we didn’t drop the idea.” Instead,Chimes worked with Bithenergy, a local envi-ronmental consulting firm, to install thelargest solar array in Baltimore City onChimes’ 12-acre campus.

Between that and other energy-saving ini-tiatives, including switching to hybrid modelsin its vehicle fleet, Lampner estimates a sav-ings of $150,000 so far, which translates into“more services for an awful lot of people.”

The company has agencies in six states,Washington and Israel.

“We take our mission to heart, but we area business and have to compete,” he said, re-calling a statement he heard from someoneelse in the nonprofit world: “No money, nomission.”

Another green initiative Lampner men-tioned came through a Chimes contract forcleaning the offices of the Environmental Pro-tection Agency. “They told us they didn’twant chemicals used in their space that theyban, so we investigated green cleansers” tocome up with something “that made the cus-tomer happy” and at the same time reducedany potential health risk to those clients per-

forming the cleaning.Lampner has been with Chimes since

1989, serving as executive vice president,chief financial officer before becomingpresident and CEO. His other experi-ences include working with AssociatedJewish Charities and the state of New Yorkand as controller of Baltimore HebrewUniversity.


The web and the access to data. What makes it

important is also what limits it.


Martin Lampner

President and CEO, Chimes

ERIC STOCKLIN

Sports concussions are a major concernfor all athletes, from highly paid profession-als to high school students.

As director of the Sports Medicine Re-search Center for the MedStar Health Re-search Institute, Andrew Lincoln is doingsomething to help everyone.

Through a unique partnership involving USLacrosse, the Baltimore Ravens and the Centersfor Disease Control and Prevention, Lincolnleads a team of clinicians working to improveconcussion awareness and clinical managementat all levels of play. In September, the Ravenspledged $125,000 to an awareness campaignand additional research and clinical testing.

“All of these individuals want to keep kidssafe and allow them to enjoy the benefits ofsports,” Lincoln wrote in a recent email.“What we’ve found is that it really takes ateam like this that’s willing to apply theirskills, leadership and resources to make ithappen.”

The team’s accomplishments so far in-clude testifying in support of a state law re-quiring concussion education for parents,coaches and students. The group also has fur-nished that education in state schools, alongwith preseason baseline testing to improvecare in the event of an injury. Lincoln’s teamhas provided medical care to local recre-ational leagues, as well as high school, colle-

giate, professional and national-level teams.More detailed studies by Lincoln’s teams

have revealed a jump in the incidence of con-cussions among high school athletes in thepast 11 years and that girls run twice the riskof boys playing the same sport. His re-searchers have identified how concussionshappen in boys and girls lacrosse so policy-makers can examine ways to improve safety.

Lincoln has a bachelor’s degree in engi-neering from Virginia Tech, a master’s degreein biomedical engineering from LouisianaTech and a doctorate in injury epidemiologyfrom Johns Hopkins. He is an adjunct facultymember at the Johns Hopkins BloombergSchool of Public Health and the UniformedServices University of Health Sciences inBethesda.


Innovation is the most exciting part of my work and gives me the oppor-

tunity to bring together the right mix of people and talents to address

the questions on health and safety of our kids. The clinicians bring us

questions based on what they need to know to best treat the kids, and

it’s our job to figure out how to design a study that will answer their

questions.


Andrew Lincoln

Director, MedStar Sports Medicine Research Center

ERIC STOCKLIN


Innovation is problem solving with an open mind. Looking at a

need in a fresh way. Then launch and iterate.


Jamie McDonald leverages her success inthe business and financial world to give backto the community as co-founder ofGiveCorps, a funding platform for nonprofits.

This easy-to-use website offers anyone theopportunity to be a philanthropist by support-ing projects near home, school or place ofworship. No other site in the country offersnonprofits the same combination of market-ing support, crowdfunding, a rewards systemfor donors and access to a rapidly growingsubscriber base, McDonald’s nominating ma-terials state.

Visitors are offered choices: “The BigGive,” a featured project that changes asoften as once a day or a variety of otherprojects and causes, sorted by category.Donors also can choose varying levels ofcommitment, with an analogy to the per-sonal sacrifice they would be making (a cupof coffee, a bottle of wine, dinner out). Theyare then offered a choice of how manytimes a month they would like to contributeand how long they’d like those contribu-tions to run.

Donors have the opportunity to sharetheir giving experience and connect withother entrepreneurs, or even make contribu-tions in someone else’s name by buying“Give Cards,” which are sent to recipientselectronically. Donors are rewarded for their

generosity with special bargains at local businesses.

GiveCorps will be launching in New Or-leans in October and in Denver and Philadel-phia by the end of the year. The companyalso sells its software on a private label basisto nonprofit institutions like colleges, inde-pendent schools and religious institutions.UMBC is using it to launch its own online

giving platform.Before helping to found GiveCorps, Mc-

Donald owned Velocity Sports Performance,a sports training business that she started in2003, operated profitably for five years andsold to a California-based entrepreneur in2008. Before that, she was a managing direc-tor at Deutsche Bank Alex.Brown, where sheled several investment banking groups.

Jamie McDonald

Co-Founder and CEO, GiveCorps

ERIC STOCKLIN

Saving energy — or using it more effi-ciently — is one of most important issues fac-ing businesses today.

As chief operating officer of Glen Burnie-based Energy Efficient Technologies LLC,Joseph Mearman uses more than 24 years ofexperience in engineering, energy efficiency,automation and control systems to make ithappen.

His company, known as E2T, has de-signed, integrated and deployed more than175 technologies and process changes to saveenergy, operational and maintenance costsfor the commercial market. Its clients includerestaurants, grocery stores, government build-ings, data centers, hotels and hospitals.

The company’s goal is to reduce itsclients’ energy costs by 40 to 60 percent byidentifying inefficient operations and equip-ment. Rather than simply replace old equip-ment, E2T looks at the entire organizationand integrates new technology to help all sys-tems work together.

“Having been involved in R&D for myentire career, it provides a mindset to con-tinue to identify ways to improve everything,”Mearman wrote in an email. “This providesinnovative thinking to identify the missingpieces and put together teams of the rightpeople to solve the issues.”

The company helped one restaurant to

cut its energy consumption 43 percent by in-stalling timed controls and a single-button sys-tem for employees to shut down the lights,heat and ovens, arm the security system andactivate operations monitors. Building engi-neers control everything from a webpage orsmartphone.

Clients have found the approach can in-crease profits, improve operational efficiency

and provide a healthier, more comfortableenvironment for customers and employees,Mearman said.

Before co-founding E2T, Mearman spent10 years in defense contracting, focusing onsystems engineering, efficiency and au-tonomous automation and control technolo-gies for Navy ships and U.S.-Mexico bordersecurity technologies.


Our ability to interact with each other and learn has been completely

changed by the Internet. The increase in productivity and innovation

provides an ever-changing environment. The tools and knowledge

available at your fingertips completely changes how the world oper-

ates. I can only imagine what the next generation will innovate and de-

velop with such a broad base of knowledge available at every moment

of the day.


Joseph Mearman

COO, Energy Efficient Technologies LLC

MAXIMILIAN FRANZ


The ability for people to be able to see space, time and activities in dif-

ferent dimensions, partially because of the use of technology and the

Internet. A flatter world helps to put a lot of issues in perspective!


As president and founder of the MurthyLaw Firm and the murthy.com website,Sheela Murthy dedicates her career to everyperson who has ever had the dream of livingand working in America.

In the past 18 years, she has establishedthe firm as a world leader by making complexinformation freely available to the world.

No other law firm uses the Internet, tech-nology and a website to make itself availableto literally millions of potential clients in theway the Murthy has, her nominating materi-als state. More than just a repository of in-formation on immigration law, murthy.comprovides the immigrant community with avirtual town square to meet, discuss andlearn. Murthy said recently it is the mostpopular legal website in the world, with mil-lions of users each year.

The site offers up-to-the-minute infor-mation on immigration laws and poli-cies, in easy bite-sized pieces, withmobile device formatting available. Italso includes a weekly e-mail bulletinwith the latest news on U.S. immigrationlaw, a moderated forum where attorneysdirectly answer questions and chat ses-sions with real-time guidance and clarifi-cations. Visitors also have access to ablog, a teleconference series, podcasts,audio files and videos of Murthy and

other attorneys discussing immigrationissues.

In addition to building and running a firmwith more than 80 employees, Murthy alsoleads the nonprofit MurthyNayak Founda-tion, which works to provide women withbasic needs and protection from abuse. Thefoundation also supports children’s education,programs that assist immigrants and causes

that help educate and advocate for immi-grants in the United States.

Murthy serves on several boards, includ-ing the Cancer Treatment Centers of Amer-ica, Girl Scouts of Central Maryland,Maryland Chamber of Commerce andStevenson University, and she was recog-nized by the United Way of Central Mary-land as its 2009 Philanthropist of the Year.

Sheela Murthy

President and Founder, Murthy Law Firm

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Developing something that fundamentally changes the

way we live, work or play.


Keeping track of people and objects on thego has always been a fascination for CarolPoliti, president and CEO of TRX Systems,and now she has taken the concept to a newlevel.

TRX has developed indoor navigationtechnology that locates, maps and tracks peo-ple in areas where GPS is unavailable or un-reliable. GPS signals can’t penetratebuildings, and they’re not always accurate, es-pecially in congested urban centers. One so-lution is a system that uses advanced sensingand positioning technology, laser-based tim-ing and mapping algorithms to track peoplein real time. Even better, it doesn’t depend oninfrastructure like Wi-Fi, ultra wideband orradio frequency ID, Politi said.

Personnel wear tracking units, and the in-formation is communicated to command soft-ware using radios or an Android hand-heldcell phone. In areas where a map or buildingfloor plan doesn’t exist or is unreliable, thesystem uses received sensor information toinfer building features and landmarks dynam-ically as people move about. It also mergesfrom multiple people moving about in thesame building to track how close people areto each other or to fixed objects.

It can save lives in situations where loca-tion accuracy is critical, such as firefighters inburning buildings, war fighters, law enforce-

ment during tactical operations or securitypersonnel making their way through unfamil-iar indoor or underground areas.

Before TRX, Politi was a senior vice pres-ident at kajeet, a cell phone service that deliv-ers unique online service controls and offeredone of the first GPS-based mobile locationproducts. Politi also founded and was a vicepresident of Megisto Systems (now Syniverse),

a company that developed software infrastruc-ture for control of mobile data services.

Politi holds multiple patents for innova-tions related to administrative control of mo-bile communications devices. She receivedher bachelor’s degree in electrical engineer-ing and an MBA from the University ofMaryland and a master’s degree in electricalengineering from Johns Hopkins University.

JOSH COOPER

Carol Politi

President and CEO, TRX Systems


Technology is changing everything. On a day-to-day basis, it has pro-

vided my iPhone and iPad so that I can work anywhere —

almost — at all times. ...We have instant access to information.


Choosing the right insurance can be atough decision, especially when your lifecan literally depend on the choice youmake.

Insurance websites only provideoverviews on policies, and brokers mainlygive sales pitches.

To help people find the best medical, life,property and casualty policies to fit theirneeds, Suzanne Thompson founded Health-Plan Headquarters in December 2010.

“The insurance industry has beenchanging, and there was not a place formost people to go for help with their in-surance if they did not have group bene-fits,” she said. “HealthPlan Headquarterschanges the delivery of insurance to theconsumer.”

A customer may come in and shop forhis insurance in a retail location, she said.

“We put together a strategy that getseach person the most coverage at the bestvalue,” Thompson said. “With optionscome questions, and we are here to helpeach person make the decisions that arebest for today and tomorrow, and then wewill help with the paperwork.”

HeathPlan Headquarters works withmultiple insurance carriers.

“If we are not appointed with the onesomeone is looking for, we get appointed,”

Thompson said. Walk-ins and appointments are taken at

the Baltimore location, while seven otherstores across the state require appoint-ments.

“We all know the medical insurance in-dustry is changing and is going to continueto transform,” she said. “These changeshave not and will not make it easier for the

average consumer to understand the manyinsurance options available.”

HealthPlan Headquarters sets cus-tomers up with a knowledgeable employeewho will take the time to discuss all of theiroptions.

“If they should stay where they are ormove to another option, we will tell themwhat their best option is,” she said.

Suzanne Thompson

Founder and CEO, HealthPlan Headquarters

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Innovation, to me, means fresh new positive and change.


When it comes to sports, some student-athletes are pushed to focus more on play-books than school books.

With the goal of helping student-ath-letes achieve great feats in the classroom,educator Natasha Thurmon started theprogram Mindful Mentors Planting Seeds.Sponsored through a grant from theAnnie E. Casey Foundation, the programaims to keep student-athletes focused onacademics over their summer vacationsand encourage them to pursue higher ed-ucation learning.

Thirty student-athletes participated inthe program over the summer at FranklinSquare Elementary/Middle School, whichincluded academics, sports and lunch.The children were paired up with anolder mentor to share their stories andprovide guidance. Some mentors are inhigh school and former students of Thur-mon’s, while others are attending collegessuch as Murray State.

“The program just took off,” Thurmonsaid. The students “love it. ... The idea is tolet them see they need to have academicscome first.”

Studies show that summer learningloss does occur, Thurmon said. WithMMPS program, the students who haveparticipated “will be ahead of the game a

little bit.”She gave the students a test at the be-

ginning and end of the program. The datashowed students did better academicallyafter completing the program.

Some students are so focused on sports,their schoolwork suffers, Thurmon said. Ifthe students fall below a certain gradepoint average, they are not allowed to play.

Sports are important to her students’ livesbecause they keep them active and teachthem discipline.

Before Thurmon started the programlast year, the coach and English teacherlost several players who did not have highenough GPAs.

“I didn’t lose any athletes [this year],”she said.

Natasha Thurmon

Educator/Coach, Mindful Mentors Planting Seeds

ERIC STOCKLIN

In the ever-changing world of technology,an amazing new product today is old news inseveral months.

The need to get a product out into themarket place as fast as possible is critical.

Partnering with the Abell Foundation,Emerging Technology Centers started Accel-erate Baltimore, an initiative aimed at help-ing technology companies in their infancyget into the market in three to six months.The first accelerator program in Marylandoffers seed money, mentoring and free officespace.

Giving “$25,000 to a small start-up ishuge,” said Deborah Tillett, ETC’s presidentand executive director.

ETC, which works with about 90 compa-nies and has three staff members, receivedabout 50 applications for the program, withthe top four chosen from the Baltimore area,Tillett said. The group was diverse, and in-cludes two African-Americans, one womanand one man, she said.

The companies’ products included a mo-bile app for planning events with others, anonline magazine, a company aimed at groupgift giving and an application that enablesteachers to better discern the reading and lit-eracy levels of textbooks.

Beginning April 2, the program culmi-nated in July with Demo Day, when investors

and officials were invited to hear pitchesabout products the companies hope to market.

“We had four amazing companies thatgraduated,” Tillett said. “They all achievedthe goals they set for themselves.”

Tillett said she enjoys seeing each com-pany move from idea through implementa-tion, and watching “their personal growth

was fun,” she said.Tillett said she believes those companies

would have made it to market without thehelp of the program, but it is likely that wouldhave taken much longer.

ETC recently announced that funding forthe program again next year has been se-cured, and ETC officials plan to solicit world-wide applications.


Innovation is the triumph of creativity over habit.


Deborah Tillett

President and Executive Director, Emerging Technology Centers

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Innovation is being able to see a unique angle to an idea and

transforming that concept into a new material or product that

offers some tangible advantage or technology advancement.

— Christy Martin


The employees at Vorbeck Materials,Corp. have good reason to feel excited thesedays. Vorbeck, which develops commercialapplications for graphene, has created a ma-terial that improves the performance anddurability of lithium-ion batteries, like thosein smartphones and electric vehicles. Theyare now developing battery prototypes andgearing up for pilot production, Director ofDevelopment Christy Martin said.

“The fun thing is seeing that first idea inthe lab working and actually being able topush it forward and make it into somethingreal,” Martin said.

Others agree: The U.S. Department ofEnergy named Vorbeck a winner of itsAmerica’s Next Top Energy Innovator com-petition, and R&D Magazine honored thecompany with a prestigious R&D 100Award.

In partnership with Pacific Northwest Na-tional Labs and Princeton University, Vor-beck created a proprietary process to convertgraphite, the gray substance in a pencil, tographene, a nanomaterial measuring aboutone atom thick. Put lots of graphene togetherand you have a black powder with some in-credible capabilities.

“The hope is that using graphene as oneof the components inside a battery can over-come the technical challenges to make elec-

tric vehicles more accessible to everybody,”Martin said.

For a smartphone application, the use ofgraphene could drastically reduce the lengthof time it takes to charge your phone andhelp that charge last longer.

But that’s not the company’s only successstory. In 2009, Vorbeck launched Vor-ink, theworld’s first graphene-based product to hit

commercial shelves. This electrically conduc-tive ink can be printed on a consumer prod-uct package, for example, to create a securitycircuit tied to store alarm systems.

“It’s pretty exciting for us that we’vetaken this idea that came out of the academicworld in 2004 and in a couple of years we ac-tually have it sitting on a shelf that a con-sumer could actually touch,” Martin said.

Vorbeck Materials, Corp.

Use of Graphene in Batteries

VORBECK MATERIALS, CORP.


Electricity, because it has been the key to many more inventions.


When al-Qaida leader Osama binLaden released recorded video and audiotapes, U.S. authorities would attempt toverify the authenticity of the recordings.

Were the tapes altered or edited?Where were they recorded? How long agowere they made?

Min Wu, professor for the Depart-ment of Electrical and Computer Engi-neering at the University of Maryland’sA. James Clark School of Engineering,often brings up the example in herclasses when discussing invisible tracesleft on recordings.

“What information can we see?” sheasks her students. “What information canwe not see?”

A year and a half ago, Wu, along withtwo doctoral students, Ravi Garg andAvinash Varna, developed a unique time-stamp for visual records. Using the inter-ference caused by the electrical networkfrequency, the timestamp is able to aid inthe detection of tampering and helping tofigure out when and where it was made.

Finding the “time and place is verychallenging and intriguing,” Wu said.

Wu said the idea for the timestampbegan with a student who found a piece of

work regarding a judge asking for a record-ing used in a trial to be authenticated sev-eral years ago. She enjoyed her timeworking on the project and the wholeprocess generally, with all of the hardwork, joy and frustrations it entailed.

The timestamp can help in situationswhere authenticating recordings is essen-tial, such as kidnapping and child traffick-

ing cases. “The importance cannot be ignored,”

she said. It is also likely that the school eventu-

ally will do more with the technology.“We are just getting started,” Wu said.

“What else can we do? What else can wedo better? ... It’s not the end of the story.It’s the beginning of exciting research.”

Min Wu

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

University of Maryland, A. James Clark School of Engineering

JOSH COOPER


Innovation to me is using ideas, processes, materials that have been used

to accomplish things in the past and implementing them in a different

way to create a solution for an entirely different situation. Great innova-

tions are ones that help human society and change lives.


Finding a bathroom is an issue manyfamilies face while at a public place orevent. Locating a restroom able to meet the

requirements of those with special needs isespecially difficult. Kathy E. Wilmot, owner of Wilmot

Modular Structures, also is the co-founderfor Maggie’s Light Foundation, a groupthat provides support to families caring forspecial needs children. Many families havetold Wilmot they find it difficult or impos-sible to locate adequate facilities. Somecannot travel outside their homes for morethan a few hours. She said recently she’salso heard stories of families having to finda back corner in a parking lot and puttingup a sheet to insure privacy while chang-ing their older children. Based on those stories, Wilmot Modu-

lar Structures created the EasyGo mobilehandicapped-accessible family changingroom. Designed and built in May, theroom features a fold-down handicappedramp, an adult-sized adjustable changingtable, handicapped toilet, motion censoredsink and retractable axles that lower theunit to the ground. EasyGo “will allow families to attend

and enjoy events as a whole family alongwith neighbors and friends in their com-

munity,” Wilmot said. “We have gottenamazing reactions from those that haveused the facility as well as those who workwith families in the special needs commu-nity.”The EasyGo, designed to be portable,

has been used at a special needs camp insummer and will be at Kennedy Krieger’sFestival of Trees in November.

“After several uses, we have learnedthat it’s a solution for more than just de-velopmentally disabled people,” Wilmotsaid. “It’s being used by family membersassisting an elderly relative, moms need-ing a private place to breastfeed, parentswith small children as well as families car-ing for members with developmental disabilities.”

Kathy E. Wilmot

Vice President, Wilmot Modular Structures Inc.

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Growing up in Washington, D.C.,in the 1970s and 1980s, AntoniaK. Fasanelli noticed the growing

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ophrenia, was living on the streetbecause that was the only place he feltsafe.

“I recognized the grave injustice inthat situation,” she said. “I knew I want-ed to address [the issue of homeless-ness] in our society.”

Fasanelli decided to become alawyer because the law is “a very con-crete tool to address the loss of rightsfor a particular population.”

Now 37, Fasanelli is the executivedirector of the Homeless PersonsRepresentation Project Inc., a nonprof-it organization that advocates for andoffers legal services to the homelessand those at risk of homelessness.

After coming to the HPRP inDecember 2007, Fasanelli made severalchanges to refocus its work on causesof homelessness and to reorganize thepro bono program. Instead of just hav-ing lawyers show up at shelters andsoup kitchens offering help, the HPRPanalyzed the primary legal needs forclients at each location.

For example, people at one local

shelter needed jobs but were hinderedby their criminal records. The HPRPplaced a lawyer at the facility to obtainexpungements for those who had beencharged but never convicted of crimes.

“We wanted to create a legal pro-gram that has real outcomes with help-ing people,” Fasanelli said.

She finds inspiration in her eight-member staff because they “do three tofour times what is initially requested ofthem.”

“I don’t do this alone,” Fasanellisaid. “I created the framework but theyare the ones in the trenches. They aremy heroes.”

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