Tuttle's primary responsibilities include administrative support to the EVPR's office, event support and meeting coordination.

K. Brandon Strickland, an engineer and attorney by training, brings a wealth of experience from his previous role as executive director of the Office of Research Administration at the University of Miami, where he managed a dynamic research enterprise with an annual portfolio of more than $700 million in expenditures. His expertise streamlining research administration processes, providing strong service to faculty, and fostering interdisciplinary collaborations are invaluable to Georgia Tech.

As associate vice president, Nolan leads the office that serves as the nexus for the Institute’s entire partner relationship and activity portfolios. The office is also tasked with facilitating collaboration efforts across various partner units within Georgia Tech, including the Enterprise Innovation Institute, Technology Licensing, Economic Development, Institute Relations, and Corporate Contracting, among others.

Nolan joined the team on January 1, 2022. His appointment follows a national search and is part of a larger Institute effort for more strategic and complementary initiatives between its corporate relations and industry collaboration units. Under this structure, Nolan will jointly report to the executive vice president for research and the vice president for development.

Nolan comes to Georgia Tech with more than 20 years of higher education expertise in economic development and corporate relations engagement.

At Carnegie Mellon, Nolan nearly doubled the university’s industry sponsored research spending between 2016 and 2020. During his tenure, the university’s executive education revenue increased by nearly 190% and several of its corporate partners, including Facebook, Honeywell Robotics, and Philips, opened new facilities near the campus.

Prior to Carnegie Mellon, Nolan spent nearly 15 years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was appointed assistant director of economic development/private sector partners program at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in 2001 and then associate director of information technology and economic development in 2006 for the UIUC campus. He was named director in 2013. In those roles, he authored the economic development and industry engagement portion of a National Science Foundation (NSF) proposal for the Blue Waters Petascale Supercomputer, bringing in a $208 million award.

Myles leads the Office of Research Integrity Assurance, which includes the Human Research Protection Program (HRPP), Institutional Animal Care & Use (IACUC), Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC), Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC), Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR), and the Animal Care Program. She also serves as the Research Integrity Officer (RIO).

Kathleen T. Gosden serves as the executive chief of staff for the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research (EVPR). In the role, she advises the EVPR and the Office of the EVPR on administrative and institutional matters. She develops action plans on policies and procedures, operational effectiveness, and communications on issues that advance Georgia Tech’s priorities, goals, and outcomes outlined in the Institute’s strategic plan. She collaborates with campus partners on executive initiatives, promotes research-related matters and objectives, acts as a liaison and representative on campus committees, and provides strategic oversight to administrative staff within the Office of the EVPR.

Gosden joined Georgia Tech in 2011 and has served in varying roles, including interim general counsel and vice president for Ethics and Compliance, acting deputy general counsel, and chief counsel, roles she held concurrently during 2022. Before that, she served as assistant chief counsel and senior attorney in employment and litigation. Before joining Georgia Tech, she practiced law in private and public service roles, including serving as a senior assistant attorney general in the Georgia Attorney General’s Office, where she represented and advised state agencies, including the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.

Bill Dracos is a seasoned operations executive with over 20 years of experience leading complex organizational transformations, financial and operational turnarounds, and strategic growth initiatives across higher education and the private sector. Renowned for driving performance, reducing costs, and building high-impact teams, Dracos has consistently delivered results in mission-critical roles.

As the chief research operations officer at Georgia Tech, Dracos facilitates and directs the Institute’s research operations and oversees Research Integrity Assurance, Research Administration, and Research Development and Operations within the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research.

Previously, Dracos served as deputy chief operating officer for the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), where he led major cost-saving and operational streamlining initiatives. His work helped strengthen GTRI's financial and infrastructural foundation - from real estate negotiations, fiscal management, and capital investments to advanced analytics and risk controls.

Prior to GTRI, Dracos was the vice president for Operations and Business Services at George Mason University (GMU), where he managed a portfolio of business services, auxiliary enterprises, and internal consulting operations with direct P&L responsibility exceeding $65 million and a workforce of more than 750 employees. He also founded and led University Business Consulting, GMU’s internal consulting practice, and was a key member of the university’s Finance and Administration leadership team.

Prior to GMU, Dracos was associate vice president for Administration and managing director for University Consulting at Emory University. There, he launched and scaled the Business Practice Improvement (BPI) division, led the development of the university’s strategic plan, and directed numerous high-profile operational initiatives. He also oversaw several auxiliary and business service functions.

Earlier in his career, Dracos spent nearly 12 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), rising to director within the Health Sciences and Higher Education practices. Before PwC, he held leadership roles at Kaplan Inc., becoming product director at age 26 and later serving as program director.

Dracos earned his MBA with highest honors from Duke University, with concentrations in strategy, decision modeling, and health sector management. A respected thought leader, he serves on multiple boards and is a frequent speaker at business schools, financial associations, and medical institutions.

Tommer Ender is the Deputy Director for Research for the Electronics, Optics, and Systems Directorate (EOSD). In this role he manages operations for an 800-person unit with an annual $300 million research portfolio across three research laboratories: the Applied Systems Laboratory (ASL), the Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory (EOSL), and the Electronic Systems Laboratory (ELSYS). He also serves on the GTRI Executive Council, helping set GTRI strategy and informing critical decisions impacting our organization.

Tommer previously served as Director of the ELSYS Laboratory. As GTRI’s largest lab with over 500 personnel at 12 locations across the United States and $165-$250 million in annual sponsor awards, ELSYS endeavors to be GTRI’s preeminent laboratory in total life cycle systems engineering and technology transition into operation. His personal area of research includes development of collaborative, executable Model Based Systems Engineering tools utilizing multidisciplinary design optimization and trade space analytics applied to complex problems.

Ender has served as an instructor and course developer for Georgia Tech’s Professional Master’s in Applied Systems Engineering, and has served on M.S. and Ph.D. thesis committees at Georgia Tech and other universities. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP). He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and active member of INCOSE, NDIA, and MORS, regularly publishing with those organizations. Tommer earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech.

B. David Bridges is the Vice President for the Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. EI2 is the largest, oldest, and most successful economic development organization at any university in the country. It is home to 11 economic development programs which (1) build and scale startups, (2) grow existing small and medium sized enterprises, including manufacturing firms, and (3) energize ecosystem builders (communities, governments, universities, and non-profits). These programs serve the State of Georgia, with programmatic reach across the Southeast region, the United States, and five continents around the world. Bridges concurrently serves as the Director of the Economic Development Lab (EDL) within the Enterprise Innovation Institute. EDL works with communities in Georgia on projects such as workforce development, fiscal and economic impact analyses, strategic planning, and downtown redevelopment. This lab also works locally and globally conducting innovation policy research and implementing innovation ecosystem building projects with 23 countries around the world.

Since joining the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994, Bridges has worked in various practice areas serving manufacturing firms, national labs, international governments, and innovation ecosystems. He has been a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator on over $20 million in grants and has authored, co-authored, or significantly contributed to over $40 million in winning proposals. Bridges has won over 100 proposals from U.S. federal agencies, plus universities, governments and non-profits from around the world. He is a Principal Research Faculty member and a frequent lecturer and key note speaker in China, South Africa, and across Latin America on nascent, innovation ecosystem building.

Prior to joining EI2, he was a general management consultant and a brand manager at three consumer package goods companies. Bridges has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Emory University and a Master of Science in Marketing from Georgia State University.