Errol Arkilic joined The National Science Foundation in October ’ 03. He is one of ten program managers in the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) program at NSF. Errol leads the IT and Security Technologies efforts. Before joining NSF, he was President and CEO of StrataGent Life Sciences – a venture-backed startup in the San Francisco Bay area. Prior to StrataGent, Errol was Manager of Product Engineering at Redwood Microsystems, also in the Bay area. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT.