Ellen Hemmerly, Executive Director at the bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park will receive the 2011 Innovator of the Year Award from The Daily Record on Wednesday, October 26.
Hemmerly, who has been Executive Director at bwtech for more than fifteen years, says that the award is less about her and more about the park’s cybersecurity incubator and the community of cybersecurity companies that have clustered there. The incubator currently has thirteen companies.
While there are about twenty incubators in Maryland, only one other focuses on cybersecurity. The bwtech@UMBC incubator is home to the CyberHive, which Hemmerly says is a unique space dedicated to bringing people in cybersecurity together to network and provides virtual incubator space to companies outside the region.
“I’ve been involved in incubators for twenty years,” says Hemmerly. “In all my years of working with area incubators, the bwtech@UMBC cyber incubator is the fastest growing and has much potential economic impact.”
That, she says, is due in large part to its relationship to UMBC and to the incubator’s partnerships with both the public and private sectors.*
Public and Private Sector Partners*
- Baltimore County Economic Development
- Northrop Grumman
- Maryland’s Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED)
- Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO)
- Venable
- Whiteford, Taylor, Preston
- SB & Company LLC
