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Headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, TVC has expanded its team dramatically since late 2002 when it was awarded a contract with the DOE. TVC relies on a core of employees for management, administration and central services such as market research, entrepreneurial training and executive recruitment. The bulk of work with clients, however, is performed by project managers. This model allows TVC to attract highly qualified business professionals, many of whom have started companies and raised equity capital themselves.

Click on one of the links below to learn more about the TVC’s central leadership and support professionals.

TVC Leadership

Sherman McCorkle, President & CEO
Randall B.Wilson, Program Management Director & CFO
George Friberg, Senior Director

TVC Central Services

Lee Trussell, Director, Entrepreneurial Training
Ingrid Baker, Director, Recruitment Services
Betsy Gillette, Director of Market Research and Planning
Charlie Whitehurst, Director of IP Bundling

Coleman Travelstead, Publisher, Innovation: America's Journal of Technology Commercialization

 

TVC Site Offices

Tom Anyos, Ph.D., Director of California Operations

Garrick Martin, Idaho Area Administrator

 

View New Mexico Team here

 

Sherman McCorkle, President & CEO
Mr. McCorkle has served in this capacity since the company’s inception in 1993. Prior to TVC, Mr. McCorkle was President and CEO of Sunwest Credit Services Corporation, founder of the Plus System Incorporated, the world's largest retail electronic banking corporation and is a founder of New Mexico Bank & Trust. He served three years for the American Bankers Association on the Select Committee on the Uniform Commercial Code of the United States.

Contact: 505-246-2882

 

Randall B. Wilson, Program Management Director & CFO
Mr. Wilson currently manages business operations for TVC, performing in this capacity since its inception in October 1993. He also manages business operations for the Science & Technology Park Development Corporation founded by TVC and is treasurer of the New Mexico Private Investors Angel Investing Group.

Contact: 505-843-4287

 

George Friberg, Senior Director, Business Assistance
Mr. Friberg assists clients in defining their business case, marketing strategy and intellectual property position and finding equity funding. He has been involved in technology business throughout his career as an engineer, manager and executive; and president and CEO of multi-million dollar engineering, manufacturing and entrepreneurial companies in defense hardware, lasers, pulsed power, and telecommunications. Mr. Friberg’s management experience in space systems electronics, communications and control systems for use in steel production and mining applications and expertise in finance, venture funding, organizational development, start-up and turn-around business situations, technology business development and marketing. He holds a BS Mechanical Engineering, and a MBA from University of New Mexico.

Contact: 505-843-4286

 

Grayson (Lee) Trussell, Director, Entrepreneurial Training
Mr. Trussell has an extensive background in administrative and financial management positions in the domestic and international business communities and the public and private sectors. He has over 40 years experience in business development, management systems and procedures and financial structuring. He has completed widespread research and consulting services in the areas of organization structure and planning, strategic planning and managing organizational change. He has served as owner, director, and corporate officer in a broad range of business applications and professional environments. He holds a BBA and MBA summa cum laude from the UNM Anderson Schools of Management.

Contact: 505-843-4256

 

Ingrid Baker, Director, Recruitment Resources
As director of Recruitment Resources for TVC client companies, Ms. Baker provides assistance in all phases of the hiring process. She also manages the free job matching website for technology companies in the region, www.nmtechjobs.org. With a background in laboratory management and healthcare services, Ms. Baker draws upon extensive experience in hiring and developing staff, as well as in financial and strategic planning for business growth. Prior to this position, Ms. Baker taught product marketing to entrepreneurs and artists in Northern New Mexico and was a director of Project management for TVC for three years.

Contact: 505-843-4255

 

Betsy Gillette, Director of Market Research and Planning
Ms Gillette is director of market planning for TVC in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She works with technology entrepreneurs in defining go-to-market approaches, covering strategic partnering, sales channel strategies, and pricing. Ms. Gillette has managed a number of technology development alliances, and in that role helped set and implement strategic plans and managed the creation of market awareness for the new technologies. She has extensive product development and marketing roles in the telecommunications field. She received her B.S. in business administration from the University of North Carolina, and received her MBA in industrial marketing from George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Contact: 505-843-4204

 

Charles A. Whitehurst, Director of IP Bundling

Charles A. Whitehurst is Director of IP Bundling among DOE labs.  He came to this position with over 40 years of experience, including 25 years in academic teaching; research and laboratory development as the director of a NASA R&D laboratory; director of the New Mexico Technology Research Collaborative; and as a consultant for major corporations, government agencies, investment firms, and small businesses.  He earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University.  

Contact: 505-843-4248

 

Coleman Travelstead, Publisher of innovation: America’s Journal of Technology Commercialization.

Travelstead’s publishing experience is derived from 10 years as general manager and associate publisher of Vista Magazine, the nation’s largest Hispanic-oriented publication with almost 4 million readers.   After graduating from the University of New Mexico, he worked for Bank of America, in San Francisco, Osaka, Kobe, Tokyo, New York and Miami.  He left the bank in Miami to become head of the World Trade Center Miami and later worked for a Miami venture capital organization.  At TVC, prior to assuming the magazine role, he was a director of project management for 3 years.

Contact: 505-843-4282

 

 

 

We could not have come this far in our business development without the help of TVC.  We are very grateful that there is an organization like TVC in our locality.  It is of great value to the Business Community of New Mexico.

Barbara C. Swenson
President/Business Manager

Linac Systems


TVC is a value-add "marketplace partner" to early stage companies, venture capital and angel investors, and professional service providers.
David Whitney
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Venture Capital Services

   
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