ellen j. hemmerly
Executive Director
bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park

Ms. Hemmerly is executive director of the UMBC Research Park Corporation (RPC) and special assistant to the vice president of Administration and Finance. As executive director of the RPC, Ms. Hemmerly is responsible for managing the development of the 350,000-square-foot bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park located on the main campus at UMBC. Ms. Hemmerly also oversees the techcenter@UMBC which houses 28 companies including incubator companies and emerging technology companies, most of which are actively collaborating with faculty and students at UMBC. In addition, Ms. Hemmerly oversees the Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship. Ms. Hemmerly is a member of the Association for University Research Parks (AURP) Executive Committee and serves as Past President . She also sits on the board of the Greater Baltimore Tech Council and the advisory committees of the Baltimore County Loan Fund, the New Markets Growth Fund and the Greater Baltimore Committee's Bioscience Steering Committee. Ms. Hemmerly is also a member of Leadership Maryland, a thriving network of informed, engaged leaders who are helping shape the future of Maryland.

Prior to joining UMBC, Ms. Hemmerly was vice president of the Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC), serving as the senior lender and director of the Enterprise Development Fund. While at BDC, she successfully started a business incubator, and marketed the city of Baltimore to high technology businesses. Before joining BDC, Ms. Hemmerly was an associate with K.S. Sweet Associates, a real estate advisory and development firm, and TDH, a venture capital firm. After graduating from Cornell University's Johnson School of Management with a Master of Business Administration, Ms. Hemmerly spent six years as a banker with Mellon Bank (formerly Girard Bank). Ms. Hemmerly earned a Bachelor of Science (magna cum laude) in Mathematics from Moravian College.