New Board members.
LCDR Steven Roehrich, USN, Ret., 65, is President and CEO of Ready Room, a company that owns and operates light manufacturing companies. The Commander currently serves as an adviser to top leaders at Fortune 500 companies, middle market firms, and federal government departments A7 by helping them adapt to changing global market conditions, capitalize on new technologies, and improve growth and operating performance. The Commander worked at Johnson and Johnson (JNJ) as a corporate Vice President for Business Improvement, reporting to JNJ’s executive committee. The Commander led enterprise-wide business assessment, operational and financial performance reforms across JNJ, focusing on Tylenol, Johnsons, RoC, Aveeno, Acuvue lenses, Janssen, Ortho-McNeil, DePuy brands along with JNJ’s additional consumer, medical device and pharmaceutical sectors' 200 worldwide companies in 175 countries. The Commander served on JNJ Company and global brand franchise management boards in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
The Commander’s former board memberships include NCR Corporation’s $2 billion Teradata CIO Informatics Group, Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School’s Industry Council, and multiple early stage bio-med and technology firms. Prior to the private sector, the Commander was a 21 year career United States Naval Aviator (4300 flight hours), a Viet Nam and Gulf War veteran, aerial combat instructor and Mission Commander holding leadership roles in Navy squadrons and air-wings.
The Commander holds a MS in Financial Management from the US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, a BA from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN and Advanced Management education from the Wharton School-University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. The Commander completed US Naval Aviation Flight Training in Pensacola, Florida.
We believe the Commander’s qualifications to serve on our Board of Directors include his expertise in executive management in biotechnology companies and high-growth business development. .
VADM Robert T. Conway, Jr., USN, Ret., 65, is the President of R.T. Conway & Associates, Inc. In this position the Admiral provides strategic advice to senior business executives on Navy Programs, Change Management, Facilities and Infrastructure Management, Renewable Energy, Information Technology, Alternative Energy Solutions and Maritime Operations. Previously, the Admiral served in the United States Navy from 1972 until the Admiral’s retirement in 2009 in various leadership positions aboard USS Vesole (DD 878), USS Towers (DDG 9), USS Bainbridge (CGN 25), and USS Gridley(CG 21). The Admiral commanded USS John Young (DD 73), and also commanded Destroyer Squadron 7 in San Diego; Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific in Hawaii; and Plank Owner of the Navy’s first Expeditionary Strike Group: Expeditionary Strike Group One/Peleliu Strike Group.
Ashore, the Admiral served on the Joints Chiefs of Staff, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Operational Test and Evaluation Force Pacific; Officer Candidate School in Newport R.I., and Naval Facility Cape Hatteras in N.C. The Admiral commanded Navy Region Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and Task Force Warrior in Norfolk, Va. In the Admiral’s final assignment, the Admiral served as Commander, Navy Installations Command. Mr. Conway received his master’s degree from Providence University, Providence, R.I. Also, the Admiral is a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at the National Defense University, Washington, D.C.
We believe the Admiral’s qualifications to serve on our Board of Directors include his expertise and years of experience in high growth business development.
