From the Chair
Diverse, entrepreneurial and innovative are the defining characteristics of UNM Rainforest Innovations’ Board of Directors. Members of the Board are researchers, inventors, academics, administrators, business executives, lawyers and community leaders, with local, national and international ties. Our board guides UNM Rainforest Innovations in its mission to support the University of New Mexico and its partners as the source for innovation management and commercial development in strategic areas of service to the University:
- Technology Transfer University-based economic development
- Support of UNM faculty, staff, and student technology commercialization
- Support for UNM research
- Support for UNM education
- Corporate Engagement
- Income Generation
The UNM Rainforest Innovations Board of Directors oversees these strategic UNM Rainforest Innovations areas and applies specific expertise, drawn from our members’ backgrounds, as needed.
Sandra Begay
Chair, UNM Rainforest Innovations Board of Directors
Board Officers
Vice Chair, UNMRI Board of Directors
President & CEO, Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce
Vice Chair, UNMRI Board of Directors
Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, UNM
Secretary and Treasurer, UNMRI Board of Directors
Executive Vice President & Deputy Laboratory Director, Sandia National Laboratories, Retired
Board Members
Retired Policy Analyst, Metropolitan Applied Research Center
Retired Consultant, Media Companies
Deputy Laboratories Director and Chief Operations Officer, Sandia National Laboratories
Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine
Director of the Center for Personalized Medicine
Co-Director, M.D./Ph.D. Program UNM School of Medicine, UNM HSC
Interim Vice President for Research and Research Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UNM Health Sciences
Jim and Ellen King Dean of Engineering and Computing, UNM School of Engineering
Professor, UNM Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Distinguished Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of New Mexico
Distinguished Professor, Department of Pathology
The Victor and Ruby Hansen Surface Endowed Professor in Cancer Cell Biology and Clinical Translation
Executive Vice President, UNM Health Sciences
Chief Executive Officer, UNM Health System