| Jim Denn is the Director of Public Information for the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR). In that capacity, Mr. Denn is responsible to the Executive Director to manage and direct media relations and marketing for an agency charged with encouraging and expanding high technology academic research and economic development in New York State. Mr. Denn serves as a senior-level agency executive, as member of agency's executive policy team, and as chief spokesman. NYSTAR's mandate is to grow New York State's leadership position in high technology research and economic development. A critical element of NYSTARâ s mission is the recognition that New York's world-class public and private research universities and academic centers are powerful economic development engines that can create new high-tech jobs and opportunity for New Yorkers. Mr. Denn is the former Executive Editor of two nationally distributed industry trade magazines and a former business writer for the Albany Times Union. During his more than 15 years as a journalist, Mr. Denn has won numerous writing awards. He is a graduate of the State University College at Oneonta and he holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy. | 
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