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Irvin L. (Jack) White, Ph.D., has over thirty years public and private sector management and leadership experience in energy, environment, science and technology policy, research and development management, and relationship management. He is Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Winslow Group, LLC, a Vienna, Virginia, company specializing in enterprise development and management. Widely recognized for his experience, expertise and record of success as a leader and manager, he advises and supports a variety of public and private sector clients in all aspect of leadership and management. He also represents an association of state energy RDD&D organizations in Washington.
Prior positions include Senior Director (Associate Laboratory Director) of Energy Programs at Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL). While at PNNL, he shared responsibility for overall management of the Lab and led the development of a consolidated $60 million per year energy business that grew at an annual rate of more than 10%. From 1981 to 1991, Dr. White was the President of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). Under his leadership, NYSERDA gained recognition as one of the premier energy RDD&D organizations in the country; and, with co-funding, its RDD&D budget grew to about $50 million per year. NYSERDA was especially noted for its RDD&D management approach, its commitment to collaboration and its success in transferring and commercializing technologies. As President of NYSERDA, Dr. White also represented New York State in its partnership role in the joint U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)-State of New York West Valley Demonstration Project.
Dr. White has also served as the Assistant Director for Energy and Minerals in the Bureau of Land Management in the Department of the Interior and Acting Director for Exploratory Research at the US Environmental Protection Agency. Before entering the Federal Service, he was a member of the faculties of the Universities of Oklahoma and Arizona and Purdue University. At Oklahoma, he was a Professor of Political Science and Co-Founder and the Assistant Director of the Science and Public Policy Program, one of the most successful applied policy programs in the country during the 1970s. Dr. White is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Past President of the International Association for Impact Assessment.
He received the 1998 American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy’s Champion of Energy Efficiency Award. He has served as either a member or chair of numerous National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) study panels and as a member of the Boards on Mineral Resources and Earth Sciences and Resources as well as the Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources. Currently he is a member of the NRC’s Board on Energy and Environmental Systems. He either serves or has served on numerous other advisory committees to government agencies, universities and private organizations, including DOE’s State Energy Advisory Board, the Director’s Council of the Lighting Research Center at RPI, the Oklahoma Energy Center, the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Advisory Committee of Enterprise Software, Inc. Dr. White has published numerous articles and books in his areas of expertise and interest.
David W. Dragnich has nearly 30 years of management and leadership experience in the environmental and energy field having held senior positions in R&D line, program, business development, and relationship management. He is Co-founder and Senior Director of the Winslow Group, LLC, a Vienna, Virginia, company specializing in enterprise management and development consulting.
At The Winslow Group, Mr. Dragnich has either lead or supported projects for: identifying major new business opportunities for technologies emerging from multiple DOE National Laboratories; developing effective methods for systematically improving the business development process for several private product-oriented clients; performing technology and market assessments and developing commercialization strategies for new environmental solution products, natural-gas-powered equipment, and complex software systems; strategic planning and business re-engineering processes for major private firms; and developing and implementing community investment and local economic development programs. In the latter as a consultant to two Fortune 500 companies, he identified, evaluated, and recommended 30 small and medium-sized manufacturing and product development companies for equity investment based on signed contracts to create over 4000 new jobs.
Prior positions include Head, Washington Operations for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), reporting to the Deputy Laboratory Director. LBNL is a multiple-purpose laboratory in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory system. Under his leadership, the Laboratory achieved long-term R&D program growth in the energy and environmental fields with major new programs in environmental bio-remediation, DOE’s Environmental Management Science Program, and Energy Efficiency’s Industries of the Future program.
From 1988 to 1995, Mr. Dragnich was the Associate Laboratory Director for Program Development, and Manager of Washington Operations for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a DOE multiple-purpose laboratory. In this role, he led in the development of new programs resulting in annual business volume increases of more than $25 million. He was a charter member of the DOE National Laboratory Strategic Laboratory Council, a high-level advisory body for the Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management, where he led the development of the first waste-related basic environmental sciences research agenda which has received a high level of Congressional support and funding.
Prior to relocating to Washington, DC, Mr. Dragnich held a succession of leadership positions at PNNL in Richland, Washington, including, Manager of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Center (EESC), the largest R&D center at PNNL, with an annual business volume of over $75 million. EESC was assigned the programmatic lead for global climate. And Mr. Dragnich was the first DOE-recommended Chair and Member for the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Geneva and an EPA-invited delegate for international exchange on environment with the former USSR. Prior to leading the EESC, Mr. Dragnich held a series of line management positions with increasing responsibility for building PNNL’s environmental business. |
