Skip Simms has a strong background bridging the equity investment and business worlds. Skip's experience will be extremely valuable in enabling SPARK to accelerate and retain innovation-focused companies in our region.


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Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
MICHAEL POLLAN
'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable...
MICHAEL SHEEN
One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
MICHAEL PALIN
The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown o...
GEORGE MICHAEL
A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fa...
MICHAEL SHEEN
Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER
You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A l...
MICHAEL FASSBENDER
No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.
MICHAEL FRANTI
To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest...
MICHAEL JORDAN
Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-h...
MICHAEL LEUNIG
Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western ...
MICHAEL NOVAK
I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the...
GEORGE MICHAEL
Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and ...
MICHAEL ANTI
One of the most unusual shuttles operates at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Site in Texas, ...
MICHAEL FROME
A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
MICHAEL BOLTON
Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach ...
MICHAEL BOLTON
The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to wor...
MICHAEL MOORE
As a kid, I watched 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable ...
MICHAEL PATERNITI
I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River&#...
MICHAEL KORYTA
The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional pow...
MICHAEL MANDELBAUM
I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it...
MICHAEL GRAVES
With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS
Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.
MICHAEL STIPE
I've always loved going to see Broadway shows. I've seen 'em all: Rent, Chorus Line, Cat...
MICHAEL SHOWALTER
To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerf...
MICHAEL DELONG
Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking abo...
MICHAEL ARRINGTON
You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based eth...
MICHAEL POLLAN
A boundary is really something artificial we made up. The ecosystem and landscape continue.
MICHAEL FROME
I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be...
MICHAEL HAYDEN
For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should ha...
MICHAEL KORDA
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the trut...
MICHAEL MUSTO
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
MICHAEL WICKETT
I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- a...
MICHAEL SPECTER
You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult ...
MICHAEL MORPURGO
I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.
MICHAEL LEUNIG
The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide th...
MICHAEL KORDA