Board Chairman Ethan Hall is excited to announce that Dallas startup veterans Jeremy Vickers and Skip Howard have agreed to join the makerSeed board of directors as Treasurer and Secretary respectively.

Jeremy Vickers is the Executive Director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UT Dallas. Prior to UTD, Jeremy was V.P. of Innovation at the Dallas Regional Chamber.  Past companies include the Dallas Entrepreneur Center, Texas Research Alliance, InnovateDFW, Texas Institute for Sustainable Technology, and the North Texas RCIC. Jeremy received his Master’s at SMU’s Cox School of Business and his Bachelor’s at Baylor University.

Skip Howard is the Founder and CEO of Spacee, leaders in spatial augmented reality. In 2014, he co-founded Cancer Gene Connect, the leaders in hereditary cancer risk assessments.  Prior to CGC, he co-founded Pave Systems, judicial software company for higher education. Skip also consulted for Ross Perot’s real estate company, Hillwood. Skip currently runs the largest computer vision developers group south of New York.