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Connie K. N. Chang is Director of Ocean Tomo Federal Services, LLC (OTFS), an integrated Intellectual Capital Merchant Banc firm. OTFS provides a full range of services valuation, investment, risk management, technology transfer and expert services to domestic and foreign state, local and federal governments and their primary government contractors to help manage, commercialize and monetize their intellectual capital. Ms. Chang is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day business development, execution, and sales operations of the company.
Ms. Chang spent thirteen years in the U.S. Department of Commerce where she most recently served as Research Director and Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology at the Technology Administration (TA). In that capacity, she was responsible for managing staff, budget, and workflow for the Office of the Under Secretary and the Office of Technology Policy; leading the development of TA’s overall policy agenda; and directing the Presidential National Medal of Technology program.
Prior to her government career, Ms. Chang worked for three years at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), formerly known as The First Boston Corporation, a premier Wall Street investment banking firm in New York City. As a Financial Analyst for the Federal Finance and Mortgage Finance Groups for CSFB, she structured, valued, and analyzed a variety of financing options for Federal and quasi-governmental agencies, foreign governments, commercial banks, and thrift savings banks, and was responsible for valuing the offering of Farmer Mac, the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Company, in 1988 which is still in operation today.
Ms. Chang is a member of the International Advisory Board on Evaluation and Impact Analysis for VINNOVA, the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems and serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the non-profit organization, AIRLEAP (the Association for Integrity and Responsible Leadership in Economics and Associated Professions.) She is actively involved in the American Evaluation Association’s Research, Technology, and Development Evaluation Topical Interest Group and the Washington Research Evaluation Network.
Ms. Chang earned a master’s degree in International Management and Comparative Politics from the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and a bachelor’s degree in Economics, with honors, from Wellesley College. She completed doctoral studies and passed her qualifying exams in Political Economy and Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Political Science. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics at Georgetown University. | 