Ellen Hemmerly

Executive Director

Ellen is executive director of the UMBC Research Park Corporation (RPC) and special assistant to the vice president of Institutional Advancement. As executive director of the RPC, Ellen is responsible for managing the development of the 500,000-square-foot bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park which houses 50 companies and includes an incubator, accelerator and research park. Most of the companies are actively collaborating with faculty and students at UMBC. Ellen is a founder of ACTiVATE®, a technology commercialization program for female entrepreneurs and is past president of the Association for University Research Parks (AURP). 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. Ellen is also a member of Leadership Maryland, a thriving network of informed, engaged leaders who are helping shape the future of Maryland. In 2006, she was voted one of 50 Influential Marylanders by the Daily Record and in 2007 was named Catonsville's Business Person of the Year.

Prior to joining UMBC, Ellen 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, Ellen 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, Ellen spent six years as a banker with Mellon Bank (formerly Girard Bank). Ellen earned a Bachelor of Science (magna cum laude) in Mathematics from Moravian College.