General Manager
MGI
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Richard W. Morris, MSE (Penn), PhD (Rice) is an engineer, educator, and ethnographer who has spent his entire career finding and implementing solutions in public health, technological innovation, emergency response, and economic development. The common theme running through his professional career is the pursuit of practical solutions to real-world challenges by direct observation and common sense. Morris has led and managed a variety of projects in diverse settings – domestic and multinational – for both the public and private sectors. Morris speaks German, Spanish, and Indonesia and has held teaching appointments where he taught systems biology, behavioral toxicology, psycholinguistics, entrepreneurship, and health science administration.
As an administrator, Morris focuses on acquisitions (FAR), workforce development, regulatory affairs, cooperative agreements, entrepreneurial endeavors, formalized joint ventures, and science diplomacy.
As a project manager, Morris leads teams to results in capacity building, change management, industrial standards, intellectual property, project finance, records management, business start-up, strategic planning, technical assistance, technology transfer.
As a general manager of MGI Support, Morris is credited with novel solutions including local legal authorities (state/Federal). preparedness and innovation initiatives, strengthened public health infrastructure, public-private partnerships, and accelerated adoption of advanced technologies (i.e., bioinformatics, natural language processing, and systems biology).
Morris and MGI are the creators of a proprietary methodology – Global Innovation Support ™ – which delivers evidence-based solutions in education, public health, government, and other public-sector entities. GSI™ means and methods are applied to requirements gathering, impact assessments, project finance, asset inventories, awareness campaigns, standards formulation, trials coordination, multi-client studies, privatization initiatives, proofs-of-concept, partnership management (cross-sector, inter-regional, public-private), SIGs (special interest groups) and SPIGs (special purpose interest groups). Results delivered by GSI ™ include: science parks, technology incubators, research facilities, enabling infrastructure, bonding authorities, centers of excellence, focused research initiatives, organizational restructurings, privatization programs, product plans (development, scaling, testing), regional efforts in capital formation and risk-sharing financial programs.
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Friday, November 11, 2022
9:15 AM – 10:00 AM
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