High Tech Rochester, a nonprofit economic-development affiliate of the University of Rochester that owns and operates our member the Lennox Tech Enterprise Center and manages on contract the Rochester BioVenture Center, is conducting a national search for a new president and CEO to replace the recently departed Paul Wetenhall. With approval from Acting CEO David Hessler, we are attaching the job description below as a pdf. If you know of a highly qualified candidate, please contact Anne Ward of Anderson & Associates at the email address listed on the attached.

BullEx Digital Safety, a Troy-based client of our member incubator the Watervliet Innovation Center, recently announced delivery of a 30-foot, four-compartment, live-fire training simulator to the U.S. Coast Guard training center in Cape May, N.J. The WIC provides a platform of shared and customized servcies to companies in the homeland security, national security, and defense-technology markets.

The National Business Incubation Association (NBIA), to which BIA/NYS and most of our incubator members belong, has highlighted in its online iReview our publication of a Guide to Business Incubation for Elected Officials in New York State.

This Guide, which is freely available under the publications drop-down menu above, was written with editorial independence by Prof. David Lewis of SUNY's University at Albany. Our thanks to David and to SUNY's University at Buffalo Office of Science, Technology and Economic Outreach (STOR), which sponsored an initial print run sufficient to reach many key leaders in the executive and legislative branches. Incubators in NYS are also authorized to print copies locally for distribution to elected officials at the federal, state, county or city level, provided they do not alter the text.

Strategic Response Initiatives, LLC, a tenant/client of our member Watervliet Innovation Center, has announced a deal under which it will be the only authorized U.S. distributor of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and fire protective suits manufactured by Paul Boyé Technologies, a 500-employee firm based in Les Vernet, France. SRI was founded in 2004. WIC, a program of the Center for Economic Growth and based at the Watervliet Arsenal Business & Technology Partnership campus, specializes in incubating companies with business in the homeland security/national defense sector.