e2e Wyoming - Don Collins

e2e is an educational networking program with chapters in Laramie, Sheridan, Gillette, and Casper designed to improve the climate for the start-up and growth of entrepreneurial companies. Five meetings are held each year where entrepreneurs meet with their business peers and service providers. Hosted by the Wyoming Technology Business Center, a business incubator located on the campus of the University of Wyoming, e2e events develop community partnerships and promote new business creation.
 

­Don Collins is the Chief Executive Officer of the Western Research Institute located in Laramie, WY.  At WRI, Don is focused on transitioning science to commercialization of clean energy technologies and lower cost methods for building highways, including zero-emission coal power plants and bioasphalt highways. 

He has 25-years of experience in engineering and management of research, design, and construction of new technologies.  His first 17-years were dedicated to submarine technologies R&D and integration of complex systems for SEAWOLF and VIRGINIA Class submarines, for the U.S. Navy, and the first dry mini-sub for the Navy Seals.  

He is a mechanical engineer and computer software engineer by training and early career work during which he completed a Master of Science degree in systems engineering management from the George Washington University. 

Prior to arriving at WRI, Don was responsible for managing groups of scientific and engineering project managers in pursuit of the U.S. Department of Energy Clean Coal Technology R&D goals.  For ~6.5-years he managed DOE R&D programs focused on fuel cells and energy storage technology R&D for distributed and central power applications, including integration of technologies to achieve smart grid objectives.  He was also responsible for hydrogen turbines and high efficient CO₂ compressors development under the DOE’s FutureGen and Carbon Sequestration programs. 

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