REPORT FROM A TRAVELER - A NEW SILK ROAD

Dr. Peter Cannon currently serves as Managing Partner of VRE Company, an entrepreneurial and financial consultancy, and Advisory Director of Intec, Inc. Dr. Cannon is co-founder of Conductus, Inc., served 15 ye ars as Rockwell International's Vice President and Chief Scientist, wa s an executive with General Electric's electronic businesses, and bega n his career at Proctor and Gamble. He began his career after graduati ng from the University of London with a Ph.D. in Physical Sciences. Dr . Cannon's academic teaching experience includes the Darden Graduate S chool of Business at the University of Virginia, the Graduate School o f the Polytechnic University of New York and New Mexico State Universi ty. Along with publishing over 120 papers and patents on research, bus iness, and policy matters, Dr. Cannon has served on several advisory p anels, including the College of Engineering at Cornell University, the Division of Physical Sciences at the University of Chicago, and is a long-term visitor to North Carolina A&T University. His governmental s ervice includes Chairmanship of the White House Initiative on the Hist orically Black Research Universities, various selection panels of NSF, Vice Chairman of the National Research Council's Board on Engineering Education, and Advisory Director of the Defense Reinvestment Program, which trains aerospace workers as classroom teachers in Los Angeles.