Darold Hamlin is founding partner of the Emerging Technology Consortium (ETC) 

– a 501(c) 4 not-for-profit organization – a group of companies and individuals dedicated to ensuring the benefits of technology (ownership and new economy jobs) reach all communities. Before starting the ETC, he served as Chief Operating Officer for Logistics Systems Inc., Chief Information Officer for the City of Philadelphia and the Metropolitan Area Rapid Transit Authority in Atlanta. He is a retired military officer who served as a Chief Technology Officer for the United States Army Reserves and Professor of Military Science and Departmental Chair at Fordham University in New York City. He is a Norfolk State University graduate with advanced degrees from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and Fordham University. He is a certified school business official in the states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. 

The Emerging Technology Consortium’s accomplishments include: 

• Publishing Technology Incubator Study for the District of Columbia, Economic Partnership;
• Sponsored Emerging Technology Opportunity Development Act for the District of Columbia Government;
• Created the HBCU Plan, Toyota North America;
• First Round Awardee, Minority Business Development Agency, Broad Agency Announcement, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation for the HBCU Path to Sustainability;
• Partnered with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. to establish the HBCU NDAA Advisory Board;
• Advisor to Congressional Black Caucus and HBCU Caucus for defense issues (NDAA) that increased HBCU MI Appropriation from $20M to $100M.