Contact
Email: lohr@eng.vt.edu
As president and executive director of the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing, David R. Lohr is responsible for general oversight and management of the organization, as well as its member recruiting efforts.. He brings a wealth of experience to the position, previously serving as the vice president of business development for the Virginia Biotechnology Research Park (VBRP). In that role Lohr acted as the executive director and treasurer of the Virginia Biosciences Development Center, the park’s biosciences business incubator, and the Dominion Resources GreenTech Incubator, which is focused on clean energy companies. Lohr is also the former vice president, client assistance, for the BIO/START Biomedical Business Incubator in Cincinnati. He is a director of incubator graduate company The Bill Police LLC, and a former director of Intelliject LLC and kSERO Corporation. He is a past chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA).
Lohr is the former president & CEO of Medisorb Technologies International LLP, a Cincinnati based start-up company developing advanced polymeric drug delivery systems and related manufacturing processes for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Medisorb successfully developed three systems approved by the FDA for human use. Additionally, Lohr spent an impressive 19 years with DuPont, encompassing a variety of engineering, research & business management and new business development assignments.
Lohr is a founding member and past chairman of the Virginia Tech Chemical Engineering Department Advisory Board and is a member of the Virginia Tech College of Engineering Committee of 100 and College of Engineering Advisory Board. He is a past president and former director of the Virginia Business Incubation Association (VBIA), and has served as a director of the Richmond Venture Forum, RichTech (formerly the Greater Richmond Technology Council) and the Greater Richmond MathScience Innovation Center.
From 2000-2004, he served as organizer and moderator for the Virginia Biotechnology Association’s Virginia Bioscience Investors’ Conference featuring regionally based life science companies seeking equity capital. In 2003, he was appointed a member of the Virginia Small Business Initiative Steering Committee by the Commonwealth’s Secretary of Commerce and Trade.
In 2008, Lohr received RichTech’s IBM Technology Leadership Award for his contributions in building the regional technology community in Richmond.
Lohr holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech (1976) and an MBA from the William’s College of Business at Xavier University (1999) in Cincinnati. He currently resides in Glen Allen, Va., with his wife Diane, a contract operations manager for DuPont, and their two children.