Rudi Cartuyvels graduated with a MS EE degree from the KU Leuven, Belgium in 1990 and started his career at IMEC in the field of advanced CMOS technologies. He was appointed Director of Interconnect Technologies in 2001. 3D Technologies were added to his responsibilities in 2007. In 2009, he was appointed Vice President & General Manager of IMEC’s semiconductor process technology unit. Since 2012, he is Senior Vice President of imec’s smart systems & energy technologies unit.

From 2007 to 2012, Inez was also the Executive Director of the Graham Boeckh Foundation, a private family foundation that supports research and programs in the area of mental health; and Senior Investment Analyst with Boeckh Investments Inc.

Prior to these appointments, Inez worked for ten years in public relations, communications, marketing and fundraising. She began her career in public relations at Le Groupe Columbia and National Public Relations. She later held senior advancement positions with McGill University, the Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation, and Canada World Youth.

Active in her community, Inez has volunteered with a number of organizations, including the Montreal General Hospital, Mount Royal Classic breast cancer run, Farha Foundation (an organization dedicated to improving outpatient services for people with AIDS), Prometheus Project (a mentoring program) and Leave Out Violence-LOVE (youth violence prevention organization). She has also been a mentor with the Wisdom II Program/Women’s Executive Network.

Inez is currently on the board of Equitas—International Centre for Human Rights Education, and is a member of the Executive and Program committees. She is also on the board of the McGill University Alumni Association, serving as Treasurer and member of the Executive, and Nominating and Governance committees. She is a mentor for the McGill MBA program.

She is a member of the Economic Development and Public Finance committee of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal; a member of the Association of Quebec Women in Finance; and a member of the International Women’s Forum and on the Executive Committee.

Inez holds a BA and MA in English Literature, and an MBA from McGill University. She has also completed the McGill-McConnell Master’s Program (Master’s of Management) for National Voluntary Sector Leaders.

In 2007, Inez was named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 by the Women’s Executive Network, in the “Trailblazers and Trendsetters Category”. A skilled public speaker, she has been featured at major conferences around the world.

His work has been funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the State of Texas as well as numerous private foundations. He has published over 120 research articles and received multiple awards/honors including the early career award of the National Academy of Neuropsychology and the 2014 FABBS Early Career Impact Award.

She is a Principal Investigator of NAPLS, the “North American Longitudinal Prodrome Study”, a multi-site NIMH funded investigation of the predictors and mechanisms of the development of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders in persons experiencing high-risk symptoms. Relevant to this presentations, she is the Director of the Biospecimen core for the NAPLS project.

In addition to her research interests, Dr. Perkins is a practicing psychiatrist. A decade ago she founded OASIS, “Outreach and Support Intervention Services”, a UNC clinical program that focuses on prevention of disability from schizophrenia by early and effective intervention. Her clinical work in the OASIS program are a continuous reminder of the need for biomarkers to identify persons at high risk as a critical step towards the goal of preventive interventions for severe brain disorders.

Dr. Snyder is Director of Medical and Scientific Operations at the Alzheimer’s Association. She oversees the Association’s International Research Grant Program, the mechanism through which the Association funds research applications. In addition to ensuring the smooth review of applications and distribution of awards to successful applicants, she is responsible for the dissemination of results and ongoing investigations to a wide range of audiences.

She also manages a collaborative project with the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health to develop an International Alzheimer’s Disease Research Portfolio – using a common language to describe funded research to enable the integration and comparative analysis of Alzheimer’s research funding from public and private organizations from around the world.

Dr. Snyder received her Ph.D . from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and her B.A. in Biology and Religious Studies from The University of Virginia. Since graduating from Stritch, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Neurobiology Program at Children’s Memorial Research Center, affiliated with Northwestern University, in Chicago.

Timothy Vaughan is a researcher and the director of data science at PatientsLikeMe. His research focuses on the mathematical characterization of disease and predictive modeling of patient outcomes. With a doctorate from Rutgers University and an extensive background in computational and particle physics, Dr. Vaughan developed his data modeling skills as a research associate at MIT, investigating the biological effects of electromagnetic fields, including transdermal drug delivery using electromagnetic fields. As a research fellow at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, he designed models to assess the effectiveness of ultrasound surgery. He has also worked as financial engineer in the finance industry.