Lila R. Anderson, PhD Vice President, Advanced Technology
For the past fifteen years Dr. Lila
Anderson’s experience has been in management of technology, R&D business
development, and commercialization of technology. Dr. Anderson has founded
two successful companies and taken products from conception through
laboratory prototype into production in both companies. The most recent two
years, Dr. Anderson has been researching and applying the application of
game theory and statistical analysis to the financial markets.
From 1999 to 2002, Dr. Anderson served as VP for Research and Product
Planning at Emergent Technologies Inc. While there she identified and
evaluated over eighty fundamental inventions and platform technologies in a
broad range of fields to transfer out of universities for commercialization.
Dr. Anderson conducted extensive evaluation of intellectual property for
patenting and licensing with the purpose of developing plans for product
roll outs.
After receiving her doctorate in physics from Rice University in 1992, Dr.
Anderson founded Texas Fullerenes Corporation (“TFC”), the first commercial
supplier of Fullerenes, an allotrope of carbon discovered at Rice
University. TFC designed equipment, methods, and QA/QC for production and
refining of Fullerene products for customers which included NEC, AT&T,
Xerox, IBM, and US DOE National Laboratories.
Dr. Anderson was founder and CEO of SI Diamond Technology in 1987. From 1987
through 1991, SI Diamond Technology was awarded and administered twelve U.S.
Government research grants (SBIR Phase I and Phase II) valued at $1.4
million dollars. Administration included the adoption of a CFR-based
accounting system that met the requirements of Department of Defense
auditors. One product that was developed and marketed as a result of SBIR
NASA grants is a space-rated mass spectrometer and its accompanying Data
Acquisition System. It was designed, built, and subsequently launched by
NASA on four different space shuttle missions (wake shield). Its Data
Acquisition System won the "R&D 100 Award".
Dr. Anderson received her Doctorate in Physics from Rice University, as well
as her Masters and Bachelor of Arts.
