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Mr. Glenn Rhoades, spent over 36 years at Martin Marietta, Lockheed Martin (LMCO), Home Depot, Best Buy and Jefferson County Government in various positions including: engineering planning, sales/ consulting, operations, administration, subcontract management, for various project management programs and projects including the Instrumentation and Flight Safety System Program, the Small Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Program, the Peacekeeper Missile Program, the Barstow, California Heliostat Project and various interplanetary spacecraft lab and operations support along with general business operational and sales design and support.

He was on the Martin Marietta team that took over operations of Johns Manville’s World Corporate Headquarters located in Deer Creek canyon southwest of Denver and later helped the LMCO facilities team relocate the newly acquired General Dynamics Centaur and Atlas Rocket programs from San Diego to Denver.

In 1990, Mr. Rhoades was presented the Marietta Martin Peter B. Teets Presidential Inventors Award for his work on the Graphic Equivalency Ruler, a concept tool that Martin Marietta deemed as having a significant potential use by aerospace engineers and designers.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design (Urban and Product Design) degree from the University of Colorado and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Phoenix.

From 1979 through 1982, Mr. Rhoades studied language at the Mangold Institute in Madrid, Spain and worked for the Christian ministry, The Navigators, at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain and studied philosophy and ethics at L’Abri Fellowship in Huémoz, Switzerland.

In 2002, he was the Republican Nominee for Colorado's newest 7th Congressional District's State Board of Education seat and later for Colorado House District 26 in 2006. He also served as an Associate Member of the Foresight Institute, which promoted nanotechnology awareness and education and served on the Jefferson Center of Mental Health Board of Directors.

In 2003, he became the CEO and founder of the Colorado Nanotech Initiative, Inc., a 501-c3 non- profit. He joined the group in February of 2003 whose mission was to bring Colorado into the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN).

In that same year he became a member of the National Science Foundation's workshop on the ethical, societal and legal implications of nanotechnology.

On November 16th, 2006 he helped open the University of Colorado's Nanofabrication Lab which finally allowed Colorado to be accepted into the NNIN.

In 2008, Mr. Rhoades was appointed to the International Editorial Advisory Panel for the International Journal for Green Nanotechnology-Bio-Medicine published by the Taylor and Francis Group London, England. He also serves as an advisor to Left Side Research, Montana.

In 2014, Mr. Rhoades joined Dr Peter Pry's EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security as a State Coordinator and later in  2015, as the National Operations Director to bring awareness of either man-made EMP or natural caused GMD threats to the American Electrical distribution grid. He is also a member of InfraGard, an information-sharing partnership between federal law enforcement and critical infrastructure providers, organized under Presidential Decision Directive 63 and with oversight by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

His wife Karen is a nurse at Exempla Lutheran Medical Center and an Adjunct Professor of Nursing at both Regis and Colorado Christian Universities. They have three children and make their home in Lakewood, Colorado.

A list of Current and Past Projects:

Member, Jefferson County Republican’s Men’s Club

Consultant, Power Security, Biological and Nanotechnology y Development

Steering Committee Member, The Secure Grid Coalition

Member, International Facilities Management Association

2002 Republican Nominee, 7th CD State Board of Education

Member, Foresight Institute for Nanotechnology Education

Member, Governor’s Closing the GAP Education Committee

Master’s Degree, Business Administration, University of Phoenix

Member, Secure the Grid Coalition, National Steering Committee

Board of Director, Jefferson Center For Mental For Mental Health

Founder and Past CEO/President, Colorado Nanotech Initiative, Inc.

Member, InfraGard, EMP Special Interest Group, an FBI/Public Partnership

Governor's " In the Gap” Educational Advisory Board for troubled students

Bachelor’s Degree, Environmental Planning and Design, University of Colorado

Consultant (Design/Sales Construction) Home Depot and Best Buy Corporations

Director, Colorado, EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security, 501-c-3

Director, National Operations, EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security, 501-c-3

Past Editorial Advisory Panel for the International Journal for Green Nanotechnology-Bio-Medicine

Past Contributor, National Science Foundation Nanotechnology Ethics, Legal, and Societal Committee

Updated 04-17-2020