John C. Weiss

J.C. Weiss
Contact Information:
 
Office BC 543
Phone: 410.837.4998
Email: jcweiss@ubalt.edu

Education Background

• Master of Business Administration, Finance and Marketing, 1979, Loyola University , Baltimore, MD.
• Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, 1972, Towson University, Towson, MD.
• Leadership Maryland, 2008
• The Leadership, Greater Baltimore Committee, Inc., 1993.
• Graduate certificates in Finance from Harvard University (1981) and the American Institute of Banking.

Professional Experience

• University of Maryland, Baltimore 2002-2004
  Appointed by the President as Executive in Residence for the Office of Research and Development with specific responsibilities to augment the flow of technology commercialization opportunities and facilitate their negotiations and fundraising. Since 1999, at the request of the President and the Board, served as the University's representative on the boards of directors of two (2) licensees of university-based technology. 
• Baltimore City Parking Authority, Inc. 2000-2002
  Recruited by the Mayor's Search Committee to be the founding Executive Director (interim) of the ordinance-mandated Parking Authority, a $50 million per year, highly decentralized enterprise at the outset. Accomplishments include its formation, organization, staffing and revenue enhancement. Management responsibilities encompassed overall operations of off-street/ on-street parking and the negotiations of new capital budget facilities, both publicly and privately operated. Critical areas included contract compliance, bond financing and economic development; and the creation of new parking tax legislation that was overwhelmingly approved by the City Council, signed by the Mayor and enacted July 1, 2002. The Executive Director functions as a member of the Mayor's Cabinet. 
• University of Baltimore, Merrick School of Business 1999-Present
  Executive in Residence for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (1999-2001) and Executive Director of the Entrepreneurship Program (2002-04), appointed by the President and Dean to serve as the School's practitioner expert in entrepreneurship and provide leadership and expertise on issues related to business and industry. Activities include guest lectures and assisting the School in attaining its goal to establish itself as a center for entrepreneurial study and resources. In August 2000, received an appointment as Clinical Assistant Professor and have subsequently taught three newly designed graduate level courses: Venture Capital Finance in the Merrick School of Business, The Design-Business Link in The Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts, and Social Entrepreneurship in both schools; as well as courses in Entrepreneurship, New Venture Creation, and Financial Management. Received the H. Mebane Turner Service Award in 2005, 2006 and 2010 and the T. Rowe Price Teaching Award in 2006.
• Maryland Venture Capital Trust 1990-2002
  Founding Managing Director (1990-94), with primary responsibilities for the organization, fundraising, managing and investing of $19.1 million of this first-of-its-kind fund of funds. Success of the fund exceeded the General Assembly's expectations. Since 1994, retained as Special Consultant to the gubernatorial-appointed Board of Trustees to oversee the management, operations and audits of the Trust. Investors included state and local public employee pension funds and the State of Maryland.
• Baltimore BioMedical Inc., Baltimore, MD 1999-2004
  Member, Board of Directors of this 7 year old company which has demonstrated, in conjunction with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, leadership in the fields of software and hardware development for the sleep apnea and awareness monitoring markets. 
• Chesapeake Biological Laboratories, Inc., Baltimore, MD (NASDAQ: CBLI) 1986-1998
  Recruited by the Board in early 1996 as President to execute expansion plans. Accomplishments include:
  ISO 9001 Certification (7/96);
  Expansion site identification, acquisition, IRB tax-exempt bond financing and build-out of 70,000 square foot parenteral manufacturing facility (11/96);
  Qualifying and transferring stock listing from the American Stock Exchange Emerging Company Marketplace to the NASDAQ National Market (5/97);
  Oversubscribed secondary public offering underwritten by Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc. (6/97);
  On-time, on-budget build-out and record FDA facility approval (7/98);
  Sustained 3 year revenue growth and market capitalization; and
  Collaboration with EBMC, BCCC, Margaret B. Penno, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins) on unique customized
  laboratory technician program resulting in the hiring of 12 newly trained Empowerment Zone residents. Elected to the Board of Directors in 1986, after serving as a consultant to the Company for several years; assisted in its successful initial public stock offering (IPO) in 1988. 
• Tennyson Fund, LLP, Towson, MD 1997-2002
  Advisory Board, Funds I and II ($40 million); expansion stage and pre-IPO venture capital financing. 
• Anthem Capital, L.P., Baltimore, MD 1992-1996
  Managing General Partner and co-founder of an equity-oriented and regionally focused Small Business Investment Company. Awarded SBIC license (1994) six weeks after submission with $21 million under management. Investors included local, regional and national banks, state and local governments. 
• Arete Ventures, Inc., Baltimore and Rockville, MD 1984-1990
  Vice President and Director of Areté Ventures (est. 1983), the managing partner of the Utech Funds. Participated in the formation (3 partnerships) and investment management of $60 million of venture capital. Investors included publicly traded U.S. electric and gas utility companies and several international utilities.
  
  From 1969 to 1984: Commercial Lending Officer with the Union Trust Company of Md. (now Wachovia) and First National Bank of Md. (now M&T Bank); Senior Vice President, Baltimore Economic Development Corporation and Acting President of its affiliate Bedco Development Corp, an SBA licensed Section 503 CDC.