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Timothy C. Summers, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Arizona State University

He is CEO of Summers & Company, a strategic management and cyber advisory firm that uses scholarship and practice techniques to evaluate management decisions to ensure that organizations can deal with a variety of uncertainty. A trusted advisor to Fortune 500 companies and governments worldwide, he specializes in the scholarship and practice of hacker cognitive psychology (the hacker’s mindset) and the normal chaos paradigm. He is a member of the Advisor Board for the CIP Institute, a non-profit Europe-based organization that brings together scientists and practitioners in the field of crisis. An advocate for community development, he is a mentor for startups through FounderTrac, a Maryland-based startup accelerator and sits on the Advisory Board of McKinley Technology High School, a science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM) high school in the District of Columbia. Timothy carries a Bachelors in Computer Science from Elizabeth City State University, a Masters in Information Security Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Organizational Management from Case Western Reserve University.

Experience

  • –present
    Director of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Engagement, University of Maryland
  • –present
    Chief executive officer, Summers & Company, LLC

Education

  • 2015 
    Case Western Reserve University, Doctor of Philosophy
  • 2007 
    Carnegie Mellon University, Masters of Science
  • 2004 
    Elizabeth City State University, Bachelors of Arts