Dale Gannaway has just help to launch ETI Services, a division of Emergent Technologies - a unique life sciences venture capital firm that forms and manages companies and funds that license and commercialize groundbreaking institutional and university-based technologies. ETI specializes in converting new discoveries into high return ventures, creating new technologies for biotech industry leaders and new opportunities for regional economies.

Dale Gannaway, a native son of Lubbock, Texas continues to serve - and is the Founder of - Director of the Lubbock Regional BioScience Initiative (BSI), a Program of the Lubbock Regional BioScience Initiative, a Program of the Lubbock Economic Development Alliance. The BSI is a strategic initiative that is focused on spotlighting regional bioscience companies, emerging technologies, and specific life science expertise for the region. The initiative serves as a link between the agricultural, medical, and university resources and companies in the region. The mission of the BSI is to promote regional economic growth and development, support established companies, and foster entrepreneurism within the bioscience industry.

Gannaway received his Bachelors of Education from Lubbock Christian University in 1975 and a Masters of Education from Texas Tech University in 1980. Gannaway was recently named as the Director of the West Texas Coalition for Innovation and Commercialization in conjunction with the Emerging Technology Fund for the State of Texas and currently serves on the Biotechnology Working Group for the Texas State Strategy on Advanced Technology and is an Executive Committee Member for Technopolis XChange, an international organization headquartered in Austin, Texas. Prior to his employment at the Lubbock Economic Development Alliance, Gannaway spent 15 years in the Broadcast Television Industry in sales and management.