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Dr. Joseph S. Broz
Name: Dr. Joseph S. Broz
Previous Experience:
- Current Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at the Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City; Managing Partner of Defense Capital Advisors, LLC, Denver; General Partner of the CapEx Fund, LP Registered SBIC, Denver and Adjunct Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Denver
- Member of the Homeland Security Standards Advisory Panel of the American National Standards Institute (which supported the 9-11 Commission), and a dual member of the U.S. Delegation to the International Standards Organization (ISO) in Geneva for the Strategic Advisory Group on Security and the Strategic Advisory Group on Renewable Energy Standards
- Dr. Broz was Vice President of Business Development and Laboratory Director for the Titanium Metals Corporation, a NYSE listed company (TIE), and from 1992 to 1997, Dr. Broz served in four senior positions at Tenneco in the U.S. and Europe, ranging from Director of Technology and Environmental Affairs in the natural gas pipeline division, to Executive Director of Operations and Quality
- Key member of the successful DOE proposal team for the Management and Operating contract for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in 2008
Spectrum Experience:
- Dr. Joseph S. Broz brings a wealth of experience and expertise to The SPECTRUM Group in the Strategic Acquisitions and Homeland Security Divisions. He has extensive experience in international business and strategic business development, and successfully led Spectrum in an independent information advisory role to the Janus and Marsico Funds for a period of over four years. He also brought a major client to Spectrum that increased its sales of defense armor plate multi-fold as a direct result of Spectrum introductions and leadership. He is a nationally-recognized expert on public and private sector preparedness, and is a leading contributor to research in the field of explosives detection using magnetic resonance techniques (at DHS and LANL). His recent experience has focused on energy security issues, climate change and renewable energy strategy and policy (NREL and CCS).
Biography:
Dr. Broz is a member of the Homeland Security Standards Advisory Panel of the American National Standards Institute which supported the 9-11 Commission in its recommendations on private sector preparedness. He also served as a member of the Critical Infrastructure Committee for the State of Colorado in the immediate aftermath of 9-11. He was appointed a member of the U.S. Delegation to the International Standards Organization (ISO) in Geneva for the Strategic Advisory Group on Security in 2005, and a Representative to ISO for the Strategic Advisory Group on Renewable Energy Standards in 2008. Dr. Broz is a former British-American Fellow of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (1995). He is a frequent speaker on private sector preparedness, delivering seminars and speeches to varied groups such as national trade associations, universities, annual corporate meetings, and business roundtables.
He recently co-chaired and assisted in the completion a Climate Strategy Action Plan for the State of Colorado under the auspices of the Colorado Climate Change Initiative (2007).
In 1991 and 1992, during the administration of President H.W. George Bush, Dr. Broz served as a White House Fellow and Special Assistant to the Director and to the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology. Dr. Broz graduated with a degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, in 1980 and received his Ph.D. in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich. He has written and published numerous technical papers, and has been awarded several U.S. and foreign patents.
Dr. Broz served as Vice President of Business Development and Laboratory Director for the Titanium Metals Corporation, a NYSE-listed company (TIE). From 1992 - 1997, he also served in four senior positions at Tenneco in the U.S. and Europe, ranging from Director of Technology and Environmental Affairs to Executive Director of Operations and Quality.
His areas of expertise include Technology Evaluation, Investment Due-Diligence, Homeland Security Policy, Science Policy/Climate Policy, and
Renewable Energy Policy, Business Strategy and Operating Analysis, and Investment Decisions and Acquisition Qualifier Development.
Education:
Dr. Broz graduated with a degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and received his Ph.D. in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Dr. Broz served as a White House Fellow and Special Assistant to the Director and to the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology. He has written and published numerous technical papers, and has been awarded several U.S. and foreign patents. He is fluent in German, conversational in Spanish and literate in other languages.
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