Sharon C. Ballard is President and CEO of EnableVentures, Inc., and former President, Chief Executive and co-founder of Reticular Systems, Inc.; she is also co-founder and director of Acronymics, LLC. She held management posts in the Titan Corporation, Motorola and LINKABIT Corporation. She is the developer of Supercoach® Entrepreneurial Training and has developed science-technology-product-market roadmap planning curricula tailored specifically for science-technology entrepreneurs and used in for-credit courses. She is one of two founding Management Fellows for Arizona State University's Technopolis Program (now Venture Catalyst), which focuses on educating, mentoring and networking early-stage entrepreneurs. She teaches nationally attended SBIR/STTR Program proposal writing workshops, and recently published an e-book Introduction to the SBIR/STTR Program now available on iTunes and Amazon for Kindle.