Staff Bios
Terree Parlett Wasley
Director, ASU Entrepreneurial Services
Terree Parlett Wasley is the Director of Entrepreneurial Services and the Technopolis Program for Arizona State University. Prior to joining ASU, Ms. Wasley was the Vice President for Economic Development with the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, where she directed several business retention and expansion programs, including the Arizona Venture Capital Conference. Before joining the Chamber, she spent five years as District Director and Senior Policy Advisor for U.S. Representative Matt Salmon (R-AZ). Prior to working for the Congressman, Ms. Wasley spent ten years in Washington, D.C., where she was an economic consultant specializing in health care, the federal budget, and tax issues; and an economist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Her economic analyses have been published by numerous public policy organizations and economic journals, and she is the author of a book on health care reform. She is an alumnus of Arizona State University.
Scott Perkofski
Program Manager, Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative
Scott is the Program Manager for the Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative at Arizona State University (ASU). Prior to joining ASU, Scott worked as MicroEntreprise Program Coordinator with the International Rescue Committee (IRC), where he provided technical assistance and business counseling to new refugee small business owners. Prior to his work with the IRC, Scott served two years with the Peace Corp, in the Republic of Armenia, as a Business Development volunteer. Scott worked with agri-business entrepreneurs working to start small businesses in new emerging market. Scott holds a bachelors degree in Marketing from the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse.
Dan O'Neill
Entrepreneurial Coach, ASU Technopolis
Dan O’Neill is Entrepreneurial Coach for Entrepreneurial Services of the ASU Office of Research and Economic Affairs. He is also CEO of DJT Enterprises, which provides strategy and business development guidance to early stage ventures. In these roles, Mr. O’Neill has taught, coached, mentored or advised 200+ early-stage innovators and entrepreneurs since 2001, including a full range of ventures from a wide variety of industries: for-profit and non-profit, high potential and micro, urban and rural, hi-tech and non-tech, product and service, local and global. Mr. O’Neill has coached 40+ of those companies through ASU Technopolis’ intensive one-on-one Global Launch Pad program, including companies in Europe and Australia. After obtaining a degree in Computer Science in 1980, Mr. O’Neill began his career as a Marketing Representative for IBM, selling a full range of information systems products and services to medium and large enterprises. During his tenure, Mr. O’Neill completed IBM’s acclaimed Marketing Education, Manufacturing Institute and President’s Class. After leaving IBM Mr. O’Neill spent two years traveling throughout the globe. In 1985 Mr. O’Neill went to work for Transform Logic, an emerging Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) company providing education and consulting services. In 1987, Mr. O’Neill became an internal innovator at Transform when he combined its CASE tools with a groundbreaking object-oriented methodology to build one of the world’s first functional software factories, which he employed to propose, win and manage multi-million dollar application projects. In 1988, Mr. O’Neill joined with two other founders to create Miles Burke Associates, a custom software development company that developed complex operations applications for large process manufacturing companies. In 1998 the partners transitioned the company into Hologix, an order management and supply chain solutions software product company backed by $25 million from first-tier venture capital firms from the Bay Area, New York and Austin. After helping grow Hologix to $10 million in software revenues and 120 employees, Mr. O’Neill left in 2000 to begin his entrepreneurial consulting practice. Mr. O'Neill has been involved in numerous community development efforts and non-profit ventures. He served on Arizona's Innovation and Technology Council and its Advanced Communications and Information Technology Committee. Mr. O'Neill is President of the Board of Trustees of Childsplay, Arizona's professional theatre for young audiences, which recently completed an $8 million capital campaign. Mr. O’Neill’s current areas of work include applying Sustainable Development to Entrepreneurship and Community Development, applying Innovation and Entrepreneurship to Sustainable Technologies Opportunities and developing Entrepreneurship as Storytelling.
