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Board of Directors

Thad Mauldin, VP/Chief Operating Officer

Qualis Corporation

tmauldin@qualis-corp.com & xthi@bellsouth.net

Mr. Mauldin is a native of Selma, Alabama, and currently serves as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Qualis Corporation in Huntsville. Prior to that, he was Vice President, Business Development for Pace & Waite, Inc and Project Manager on the company’s Configuration and Data Management Contract for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Before joining Pace & Waite, Mr. Mauldin was the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center and U.S. Space Camp where he was responsible for the operation of Alabama’s largest tourist attraction and the development of educational programs for 20,000 Space Campers each year.

Prior to serving the State of Alabama at the Space & Rocket Center, he was the Huntsville Site Manager and Program Manager for PRC, Inc’s support to Marshall Space Flight Center and the National Space Development Agency of Japan. A United States Air Force (and Vietnam) veteran of 24 years, Mr. Mauldin served in numerous disciplines and retired in the grade of Colonel.

Mr. Mauldin is one of the founders of the Alabama Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education Coalition, serving on the Board of Directors since its inception, and serving as AMSTEC’s Executive Director from 2001 – 2003. He served on the State of Alabama’s Science Course of Study Committee in 2000 – 2001. In addition to AMSTEC, he currently serves on Boards of Directors for the Sci-Quest Hands-On Science Center and Junior Achievement of North Alabama. He was formerly on the Boards of the Women’s Business Center of North Alabama and the Huntsville Rehabilitation Foundation, where he served as Chair of the Planning Committee.

Mr. Mauldin holds a B.S. from the University of Alabama, an M.S. from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and he completed course work for a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Neil E. Lamb, Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology Director of Educational Outreach

Dr. Lamb received his B.S. degree in molecular biology from Auburn University and his Ph.D. in human genetics from Emory University. In 1999, Lamb became a faculty member of the department of human genetics at Emory. He served as director of education, overseeing genetic educational opportunities with the schools of medicine, nursing and theology, as well as directing outreach efforts for K-12 programs and the public.

At HudsonAlpha, Lamb serves not only as a “cheerleader for genetic education” but also develops and implements a comprehensive outreach program aimed at educating school-age children, educators and the public. He and his team have developed a genetics module for the Alabama Math, Science and Technology Initiative (AMSTI), providing hands-on experiences with DNA for middle- and high-school students across the entire state. Importantly, his team also trains a number of teachers each year so they can lead their classes through genetics and biotechnology curricula. Neil also developed the wildly popular "Biotech 101" program, where both HudsonAlpha and associate company personnel teach basics and applications of biotechnology for a five-night series of classes.

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