NFT has been successful as a result of tremendous help and assistance from many unpaid volunteers. The following acknowledges the fifty or more persons who have provided help over the past three years. Many have worked on several projects, and we have tried to recognize that without going overboard.

On this page, we have not recognized the NFT Champions, board members, Scientific Review Board members, university point people and donors who have made substantial contributions to our work. This page is for the unpaid volunteers who make NFT successful. If we have overlooked anyone, please let us know.


Web Site:

Ben Livesay - Development of our new web site.
Texas Video and Post - for the video clip on the home page.

RoadShow Media - web broadcast of the 2005 and 2004 Nano Summit
Compqsoft - Development of our registration and donation web pages.
Rice University and Erin McAfee - Development of the original web site.
Howard Schmidt - Development of the 2003 Nano Summit streaming video.
Doug Bennett - Advice and suggestions on the web site.

2005 Conference volunteers include Amir Abileah, Tracey Allely, Wade Adams, Deji Coker, Tim Graves, Deborah Mansfield, Jean Anne Mire, David Johnson, Paula Ortega, Reid Pennebaker, Jeff Roeth, Munim Hussain, Tusher Prusad, Carlos Garcia, James Le Quynh, and Mitch Jeffrey.

2004 Conference volunteers include Amir Abileah, Wade Adams, Beau Carpenter, Deborah Mansfield, Jean Anne Mire, John Marsh, Terry Pack, Reid Pennebaker, Jeff Roeth, Shyamala Vinnakota, Ken Williams, Andrew Nat, Carlos Garcia, and Mitch Jeffrey.

2003 Conference volunteers included Amir Abileah, Wade Adams, Carlos Garcia, Ilia Gelster, Chris Neville, Deborah Mansfield, Jean Anne Mire, Scott Olson, Valerie Palmquist, John Marsh, Charles Simmons, Shyamala Vinnakota, Mimi Parson, Ken Williams, Andrew Nat, Mark Harrington, Baburaj Eranezhuth, Roger Hite, and Mitch Jeffrey.

2002 Conference volunteers included Jeff Hancock, Jacob Kluger, Andrew Nat, Jean Anne Mire, and Deborah Mansfield .

John Marsh and Scott Olson developed the inital directory.  David Johnson updated the original directory in 2005.

Deborah Mansfield led this effort and Mark Vreeke, Rana Karim, John Marsh, Greg Grant, Russ Peterson, Baburaj Eranezhuth, Charles Simmons, and Mike Sampson contributed on one or more university sections.

Munim Hussain of Texas Tech prepares our monthly newsletter. Reid Pennebaker publishes it.

Mitch Jeffrey provides public and press relations support.

Jennifer Sickler suggested and helped plan the 2003 Briefing Breakfasts for community leaders. Garold Breit, Marc Folladori, Ray Flumerfelt, Greg Grant, Roger Hite, Andrew Nat, John Sturtevan , Pamela Tyler, Ken Williams, and Frank Wozencraft have all helped on fund raising.  Catherine Ives was instrumental in the development of the original white papers and continues to help after moving to New York. Jacob Kluger helped with many San Antonio-related activities. Eric Roth and Beau Carpenter took the lead on a Rice business school project to develop a marketing plan for NFT. Jeff Hancock did extensive research on grant making policies and procedures and drafted our first version. Amir Abileah, Robert Adrion, Deborah Ausman, Jeff Axley, Ayodeji O. Coker, Marc Folladori, Ilia Gelster, Don Gille, Greg Grant, Tim Graves, Adil Jaffry, Jeff Kabin, Frank Karbarz, Jean Anne Mire, Rebecca Munguia, Terry Pack, Shawn Patterson, Russ Peterson, Mike Sampson, Hemanta Sarker, and Jacqueline Waugh all helped in various ways on projects large and small.