Leadership
Mark J. Lewis, PhD
President and CEO
Dr. Mark Lewis is the chief executive officer for the Purdue Applied Research Institute, providing thought leadership and domain expertise across PARI’s national security, global development, infrastructure research, and technology acceleration initiatives to take on our nation’s most challenging problems. With a focus on creating new strategic private-public-academic partnerships, Dr. Lewis connects PARI programs with a broad array of industry, federal agencies, entrepreneurs, and academic collaborators. Previously Dr. Lewis’s distinguished career includes leadership as Executive Director of NDIA’s Emerging Technologies Institute, Director of Defense Research & Engineering in the Department of Defense, Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force, acting Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering, Director of the Science and Technology Policy Institute, and professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, where he served as the Willis Young, Jr., Professor and Chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering.
Laboratory Directors
Amit H. Varma, PhD
Executive Director, Infrastructure Innovation Laboratory (PIIL)
John Glover, PhD
Executive Director, Technology Acceleration and Innovation Laboratory (PTI)
Darren Crum, PhD
Director, Microelectronics Laboratory (PML)
Gregory Scofield, PhD
Director, Hypersonics Laboratory (PHL)
Technology Leads
Allan Gray, PhD
Executive Director, DIAL Ventures
Joseph S. Jewell, PhD
Director, HYPULSE Wind Tunnel
Patricia Herndon
Senior Director of Special Projects
Corporate Officers
Kevin C. Massey, PhD
Chief Operating Officer
Gerald “Jerry” Trepkowski
Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
Kea Matory, JD
Chief External Relations Officer
Camilla Shanley
Chief of Staff
Strategic Management Team
Crystal Seibert
Senior Director of Finance
Andrew Evans
Director of Security
Evamarie Socha
Senior Director of Communications
Jennifer Freidenberg
Director of Contracts