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Program Lead, Enterprise Excellence at DEMEP, Lisa Weis is a people-centric, lean/continuous improvement expert with more than 20 years of demonstrated success in helping hundreds of public and private organizations achieve their vision and meet their strategic goals. She is also an AME mid-Atlantic board member and is the lead for curriculum development for the AME people-centric leadership initiative. Lisa has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering, Cum Laude, from the University of Delaware.

Bridgett Paradise, Tenable’s Chief People and Culture Officer, brings more than 30 years of experience to her role. She leads the company’s Human Resources strategy and policies, global recruitment efforts and organizational development programs, all of which drive the company’s next phase of growth and international expansion. Bridgett is an accomplished and results-oriented Human Resources executive with a strong track record of building high-performing teams. Prior to joining Tenable, she served as Chief People Officer for Citadel Securities, a global financial institution in Chicago. She also served as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer, where her responsibilities spanned global talent management and recruitment, as well as organizational design and employee benefits. Bridgett also spent more than 20 years at Microsoft Corporation, where she last served as General Manager of Human Resources for the Worldwide Services division. Bridgett has a Master’s degree in Human Resources Management from Marymount University and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Communications from Catawba College.

Marni Baker Stein is chief academic officer and provost at Western Governors University, where she leads WGU’s four colleges and supporting Student Success and Program Development functions. Baker Stein’s leadership prioritizes education and workforce equity, cutting-edge skills-focused and competency-based program design, personalization of the learning experience and sustainable innovation at scale. She drives the university’s student-centered mission with a 360-degree. data-driven “community of care” approach that strategically supports students through their entire academic journey

For Catalyst Connection, an MEP Center based in Pittsburgh, Scott is responsible for the program development and delivery of STEM initiatives. He works in partnership with nonprofits, school districts, colleges, and economic development organizations on STEM education, manufacturing, and workforce programs.

Jeffrey Fong was educated at the University of Hong Kong, Columbia and Stanford. He began as an engineer at Ebasco, a consulting firm in New York City, to design structures for power plants (1955-63), went to Stanford to study for a Ph.D. in applied mechanics and mathematics (1963-66), and joined NIST, then National Bureau of Standards, first as a postdoc (1966-68) and later as physicist in its Applied and Computational Mathematics Division (1968-present). A licensed New York State Professional Engineer (P.E.), Dr. Fong is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and a fellow of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM).

Ming Zheng studied physical science in his early career and received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics from Peking University and a M.S. degree in physics from University of Utah. He became interested in biology as he grew older and ended up getting a Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry from Princeton University. He then conducted his postdoctoral work at the National Institutes of Health with fellowship support from the American Cancer Society. From 2000 to 2009, he was a principal investigator at DuPont Central Research and Development. In 2009, Ming joined NIST, where he is now a research chemist.

Kim is a Partnership Coordinator with NIST MEP's Regional and State Partnership Division.

Steven Brown received a B.S. degree in physics from the College of William and Mary and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, under the guidance of Steve Rand. Following a postdoctoral appointment at the Naval Research Laboratory working with Tom Kennedy, he came to NIST in 1997. Since coming to NIST his focus has been on developing laser applications in radiometry. He is currently a physicist in the Sensor Science Division’s Remote Sensing Group looking at ways to improve the calibration of Earth-observing satellite sensors.