Dr. Mary Lowe Good
Managing Partner
Venture Capital Investors, LLC

Former Under Secretary of
Commerce for Technology

Dr. Mary Lowe Good is well known for her extraordinarily distinguished career spanning academia, industry and government.

Dr. Good is currently Managing Partner of Venture Capital Investors, LLC, a group of Arkansas business leaders who work to foster economic growth in the region through the support of technology-based enterprises.  She also is the past Chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Dean of the Donaghey College of Information Science and Systems Engineering at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. Dr. Good serves on the Board of Directors of several companies, including BIOGEN, a successful Massachusetts-based biotech company; IDEXX Laboratories of Westbrook, Maine; and the Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corporation Board of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Previously, Dr. Good served four years as Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology during the Clinton Administration, where she was the architect of many technology policies that helped strengthen the nation's economy during the 1990s. The Technology Administration, the $750 million agency Dr. Good headed, is the focal point in the federal government for assisting U.S. industry to improve its productivity, technology and innovation to compete more effectively in global markets. She also chaired the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Technological Innovation, and served on the NSTC Committee for National Security. During the terms of Presidents Carter and Reagan, Dr. Good served on the National Science Board, and was Chairman of the Board from 1988 to 1991.

Before joining the Clinton Administration, Dr. Good was the Senior Vice President for Technology at Allied Signal, Inc., where she was responsible for a multi-billion research and development budget, and for Allied Signal's centralized research and technology organizations with facilities in Morristown, New Jersey, Buffalo, New York, and Des Plaines, Illinois.  She was a member of Allied Signal's Management Committee, and responsible for technology transfer and commercialization of new technologies.

Dr. Good is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, a past President of the American Chemical Society, and a member of the American Institute of Chemists and the Royal Society of Chemistry.  She has been active on the boards of directors of groups such as the Industrial Research Institute, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, and the National Institute for Petroleum and Energy Research.  She also has served on advisory panels for the National Research Council, the National Bureau of Standards, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and NASA.

Dr. Good's accomplishments in industry followed a highly successful academic career, with more than 25 years of teaching and research in the Louisiana State University system.  Dr. Good received her B.S. in chemistry from the University of Central Arkansas, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in inorganic chemistry from the University of Arkansas.  She also has received 21 honorary degrees from many colleges and universities, including Michigan State University, Louisiana State University, the Polytechnic University of New York, and the College of William and Mary. Dr. Good has received more than 27 awards, including the National Science Foundation's Distinguished Public Service Award, the Albert Fox Demers Medal Award from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize and the American Institute of Chemists' Gold Medal.  She was chosen as Scientist of the Year by Industrial Research and Development Magazine.  In 1997, Dr. Good received the esteemed Priestly Medal from the American Chemical Society.