Mark Billingsley has worked in Alaska as an engineer and an attorney. His current position combines both backgrounds to advance UA research and commercialization efforts. Mark also is a registered patent attorney and a member of the Alaska Bar Association.

Magali Eaton is the Associate Director within Alaska Center ICE. Her focus on growing the Center's university, community, and state-wide footprint through inclusive program building, and partnerships with local, state, and regional ecosystem players, starting with taking a leadership role in deploying RISE UP programming.

In a past, life before she began working with startups, she practiced law in France and in Seattle. She managed intellectual property portfolios and transactions for clients in a wide range of industries. In her spare time, she also founded and helped build a couple of youth leadership and education organizations.

A member of the New York bar, she holds law degrees from Universite Jean Moulin (international law and human rights) and Universite de Strasbourg (intellectual property law) in France, and an LLM in intellectual property law from the University of Washington where she attended thanks to a Fulbright scholarship.

In her free time, she likes to climb mountains, socialize with her bees, and paint.

Evelyn Jacome is passionate about entrepreneurship and innovation. She has worked in several businesses including sustainability, forestry, micro finance, and seed funding for early stage entrepreneurs.  She has used her multicultural background and experience to support underrepresented communities and minorities to start innovative business in Ecuador and Utah. Evelyn is currently an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at the Business School of Management at the University of Alaska Anchorage and project manager of the Small Business Innovation Research at the Alaska Center ICE.

Evelyn has been involved in the successful development of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in northern Utah. She was born in Ecuador and completed her economics bachelor’s in the United States and later received an entrepreneurship master’s degree in England. She is moving to Fairbanks early spring with her husband and dog Quito.

Alexis joined Center ICE in 2018.   She is in charge of purchasing,  helps out with coordinating events & travel, and supports the growing programming now offered through Center ICE.  She is thankful to have a wonderful job,  two beautiful & intelligent girls, a giant dog, and a pretty amazing husband.

Ashley Guernsey, a lifelong resident of Moose Pass, Alaska, grew up ice skating, reading, and dog mushing. The oldest of four children, Ashley finished the Junior Iditarod Race at age fourteen. Two years later, she became a Senate Page in Washington, DC.

She recently graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. After successfully defending her Honors Thesis titled, “Russian Colonialism in Alaska”, Ashley received a Joint Major Bachelor Degree in Economics and Religious Studies. 

Ashley is excited to support innovation and entrepreneurship as the coordinator for I-Corps, Students2Startups, and Center ICE Seed Fund with Center ICE. During her tenure with Center ICE, she hopes to gain a better understanding of Alaska’s bright future being created by innovators and entrepreneurs today and to explore future opportunities on her educational and professional journey.

Eric has a background in small business management and optimization. Eric earned BAA and MBA degrees at UAF’s College of Business and Security Management. A Fairbanks local, when he isn’t at work or in the workshop of his small batch manufacturing business, he can be found enjoying the Alaskan outdoors by camping or snowboarding, depending on the season. 

Dr. Peter Webley is a Research Professor of Remote Sensing as well as the Associate Director of Research at the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI), Geophysical Institute, UAF. As well as Deputy Director of the UAF technology transfer office, Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization (OIPC), Peter is a Program Manager at UAF’s Center for Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship (Center-ICE) and leads the instruction of the NSF funded I-Corps site program as well as managing the summer-based Students to Starts program.

Peter was the Vice-President of UAF’s first start-up, V-ADAPT, Inc., formed in 2013 and has successfully licensed intellectual property, been awarded small business innovation research projects and a US patent as well as been inducted into the State of Alaska Innovators Hall of Fame 2016 – 2017 class. He is a scientist, innovator, and entrepreneur.

Before coming to UAF, Peter was a postdoctoral researcher at Kings College London and developed a remote sensing monitoring system for the volcanoes of Central America. Peter has a BSc in Geophysics and an MSc in Atmospheric Sciences, both from the University of East Anglia, UK and a PhD in Remote Sensing from the University of Reading, UK.

Peter works hard to support and advise faculty, staff, and students to develop their ideas, protect their intellectual property, and commercialize their work as they develop into our next generation of UAF entrepreneurs and solve tomorrow’s issues today.

Prior to working at UAF, David worked as an intellectual property attorney for over 15 years with a particular focus on high technology clients, patent procurement, and patent portfolio management. He counseled and developed long-term relationships with engineers and scientists, university technology transfer offices, in-house counsel, and corporate executives alike. Before going to law school, David worked for 3 years as a consultant for an environmental engineering company.  David's professional education includes a JD from the UCLA School of Law and a BS in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). More recently, before moving to Fairbanks, David and his family lived overseas for over 7 years in East Timor, Myanmar, Turkey, and the Republic of Georgia, working with an NGO focused on local education and medical services. While overseas, David also taught at the primary, secondary, and university levels, in subjects ranging from multiplication to middle school science to a survey of intellectual property and internet law.

David grew up in Southern California, worked in Los Angeles and Washington DC, and loves all sports. Favorite pastimes include tennis, cycling, and reading.

Huckleberry Hopper is a Technology Commercialization Associate with Alaska Center ICE. He has previously worked both in Alaska as well as internationally  as a financial consultant. Within Alaska Center ICE, Huckleberry is dedicated to identifying and bridging ideas to society by providing market research and business development assistance. To support this, he brings entrepreneurial ecosystem skill sets and financial modeling background. 

Huckleberry's career had him trapezing his way back and forth between Europe and the United States. Originally a UAF SOM graduate, he completed his Master's degree in International Finance at the University of Glasgow; the rainiest and most homely European city in the world. Following his graduation, Huckleberry (like most Alaskans, he might add) returned home to and founded his own consulting firm where he provided business modeling consulting for a variety of medium-sized Alaskan businesses. Then, in true trapezing fashion, he joined Ernst and Young and moved to Washington D.C.. Here he built financial analytic software for the Department of Commerce and pretended to enjoy wearing suits. This, however, was clearly unsustainable because he suits bunny boots and the cold much better. 

In his free time Huckleberry is a traveler, screenwriter, language learner, and dancer. He brings varying levels of skills to each but loves all of them.

Gwen is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation & Industry Partnerships. Prior to taking up this role, she was the Director of the Alaska Center for Energy and Power (ACEP). Prior to joining the University of Alaska, Gwen served as the Vice President of New Development at Chena Hot Springs Resort near Fairbanks. While at Chena, Gwen oversaw the construction of the first geothermal power plant in the state, in addition to numerous other innovative energy projects ranging from hydrogen production to cooling a 10,000ft2 ice museum year-round using 150°F hot water.

Gwen moved to Alaska in 1994, shortly after graduating from Bradley University with a degree in Physics and Mechanical Engineering. Gwen is the mother of three children – Leif, Marais, and Lael. Gwen has been the recipient of several awards throughout her career, including an R&D 100 award, Project of the Year from Power Engineering Magazine, the Alaska Top 40 Under 40 Award.

A proven leader in managing people, projects, and ideas for outcome-driven results. Justin combines business development experience in the ocean and clean technology sectors with MBA level management skills. He is motivated to scale impact through effective communication and teamwork.

Dr. Stanley is the Director of University Writing, Associate Professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts, and a Faculty Fellow in Assessment and Accreditation. Sarah's research interests focus on the noticing hypothesis, hybrid writing teaching methods, access to quality higher education, and social justice. She is the co-founder with Sol Neely of LION (the Learning Inside Out Network) which seeks to increase educational opportunities inside Alaska prisons, jails and halfway houses.