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Luna Expands Corporate Advisory Board

ROANOKE, VA, Dec. 10, 2008 - Luna Innovations Incorporated has added three members to its Corporate Advisory Board, which is made up of experts in various fields who are invited to participate and provide strategic counsel to assist in technology advancement.

Mark A. Frantz is focused on software and media investments for RedShift Ventures and currently serves on the Board of Directors at portfolio companies Intelliworks, Telarix and TerraGo. Frantz also serves on the Board of Directors at ODIN Technologies, the Northern Virginia Technology Council, the Commonwealth of Virginia's Research & Technology Advisory Council and the Business Alliance of George Mason University. Frantz was previously the Managing General Partner of In-Q-Tel, the strategic venture capital affiliate of the U.S. Intelligence Community, and formerly a partner with Carlyle Venture Partners.

John S. Parker, MD, FACS, FCCP, currently serves as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, and Technical Fellow for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). His major area of focus is Weapons of Mass Destruction defense, Cooperative Threat Reduction, Public Health, Biosurveillance and Military Healthcare.

Prior to joining SAIC in 2002, Parker served as Commanding General of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command at Ft. Detrick, Md., where he directed the U.S. Department of Defense global chemical and biological defense, infectious disease, telemedicine, trauma and biomedical research programs. He completed his military service as a Major General, Medical Corps, U.S. Army, and received his medical degree from Georgetown University Medical School.

Jeff W. Rollins co-founded Market Grove Partners and RedE4 Capital Partners. Market Grove focuses on investing in and assisting small cap and early stage companies. RedE4 focuses on investing in undervalued Intellectual Property.

Rollins was also a Partner and Managing Director of C2 Partners, a private equity fund focused on small cap value companies. He previously held leadership positions in Brandywine Center Management, a firm that developed retail real estate, and Rollins Environmental Services, one of the nation’s leaders in Hazardous Waste Management.

Rollins is on the board of Dover Motorsports Inc., Dover Downs Gaming and Entertainment Inc. Fine Stationary Solutions OrphaGenix Inc. and SUNRx, Inc. He is also a Trustee of Holderness School, and is on the Board of Visitors at Duke University.

 

Additional members of the Luna’s Corporate Advisory Board are: Frank Bonsal, Co-Founder of New Enterprise Associates; Terry Brady, Founder and Former President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Array Medical; Dr. Ronald Carrier, President Emeritus of James Madison University (JMU); John Hay, Co-Founder of P3 Consulting and Former Advisor to the Secretary of Defense; Charles Hamner, Chair of The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences; Sir Harry Kroto, 1996 Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry; The Honorable John O. Marsh, Jr., Attorney and Former Secretary of the Army; Dr. John Noftsinger, Vice Provost of JMU; Jerre Stead, Chairman and CEO of IHS; Cord Sterling, Vice President of Legislative Affairs for the Aerospace Industries Association and Former Legislative Assistant to Sen. John Warner, R-Va.; and Kim Wincup, Senior Vice President of SAIC.



About Luna Innovations:
Luna Innovations Incorporated (www.lunainnovations.com) develops and manufactures new-generation products for the healthcare, telecommunications, energy and defense markets. Our products are used to measure, monitor, protect and improve critical processes in the markets we serve. Through its disciplined commercialization business model, Luna has become a recognized leader in transitioning science to solutions. Luna is headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia.

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