OLD Family Timeline – 2005 thru 2014

2011
Sep 07
Hudson Area Library agrees to support from Galvan Foundation for rebuild of Armory

Theresa Parsons and Mark participated in a remarkable teleconference with Eric Galloway and Henry Van Ameringen to discuss their proposal to rebuild the Armory for the library. This was the beginning of a five year project that brought the library to its present home. 09/07/2011 Notes of Teleconference Attending: Theresa…
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Dec 10
Travel – Hong Kong & Bali

December 2011

2012
Mar 10
Mark writes first business plan for UThisMe, LLC

Working on contract from Columbia Economic Development Corp. Mark worked with David Ackerman and Seth Lachterman, both principals in the venture, to write a business plan for UThisMe, LLC. This resulted in the investment of $1 million by Cameron Melville. At the time UTM was working on an encrypted private…
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Mar 10
Mark President Board of Trustees Hudson Area Library
Dec 10
Travel – Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Penang

December 2012

2013
Jan 10
CRSPR Gene Editing Tools Reach Maturity
CRSPR Gene Editing Tools Reach Maturity

CRISPR-Cas9 harnessed for genome editing January, 2013 — Feng Zhang, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, Massachusetts After almost two decades of development this powerful system of gene editing has become commercially viable opening doors to advances and controversies An artist’s depiction of…
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Feb 10
Travel & Road Trip – California & Arizona

February 2013

Jun 05
Edward Snowden leaks NSA documents

Snowden’s leak of the NSA materials revealed a massive spying operation on the American people by their own government. On a personal note, almost within moments of the release of these documents, competitors to UTM’s encrypted communications app appeared including some with very deep funding. This changed the competitive landscape…
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Jun 10
Tennis – Mark returns to the sport
2014
Mar 14
Russia annexes Crimea
Dec 10
Travel – Australia – December 2014 – January 2015