The staff of the Technology Transfer Office works in close coordination with MITRE's Chief Engineers, Corporate Legal Office, Contracts Office, and Corporate Communications.

Ray Dizon - Director, Technology Transfer Office

Ray Dizon is director of The MITRE Corporation's Technology Transfer Office (TTO). In this role, he oversees MITRE's technology transfer program, which was established to put MITRE-developed technologies into the hands of commercial companies that can make them available to MITRE's sponsors and the public as supported, affordable products. Mr. Dizon works with both MITRE scientists and engineers and outside organizations (including industry, academia, and research organizations) to streamline the knowledge transfer and collaboration process. In this role, he assesses MITRE-developed technology and intellectual property, identifies capabilities that apply to the commercial sector, academia, and research organizations, and transfers the innovations to organizations that can develop them for commercial and public use.

Before joining MITRE in 2008, Mr. Dizon served as managing director at the Maryland Venture Fund, which invested in more than 185 high-technology companies that generated more than $250 million in annual revenues. He analyzed companies' business plans, nurtured a portfolio of emerging technology companies, and worked closely with state government, universities, federal laboratories, agencies, venture capital firms, and service providers to grow start-up businesses through economic development.

Prior to the Maryland Venture Fund, Mr. Dizon worked as a telecommunications consultant, developing business plans for competitive and rural local exchange carriers, Internet service providers, and utilities. He also performed financial analyses and due diligence for several mergers and acquisitions, including the acquisition of incumbent local exchange carriers' access lines. Previously, as a business planner and credit analyst at National Data Corporation, he reported the credit card division's financials and performed ongoing due diligence on the credit card merchant portfolio. Earlier in his career, Mr. Dizon worked as a research engineer for IIT Research Institute where he analyzed ground- and satellite-based systems.

Mr. Dizon received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University and his M.B.A. in Finance from Loyola College of Maryland.