Phillips Verner Bradford

Biographical Information


Phillips Verner Bradford is the namesake grandson of Samuel Phillips Verner (1873-1943), the African Missionary, Explorer, Adventurer, and Developer. Verner brought Ota Benga, the first documented African Forest Person to visit the Western Hemisphere, first to the St. Louis Exposition of 1904, and then to New York in 1906. Ota became known as the "Pygmy in the Zoo" and is the subject of a book co-authored by Phillips Verner Bradford and Harvey Blume.

Harvey Blume is a writer and literary critic living in Cambridge, MA. He has contributed to:


Dr. Phillips Verner Bradford is the President of Sunrise Ventures, Inc.. Dr. Bradford has more than 29 years experience, including management roles in state government, academia, basic and applied research and product development in industry, and financial and investment analysis.

He has been an officer of two major universities: Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Technology, Computer & Information Systems and Director of External Relations for the Computer Science Department at Columbia University in New York (1988-89), and Director for Corporate Research at Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey in New Brunswick, NJ (1982-84)

He has served as Founder and Executive Director of the Kansas Advanced Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC) (1985-88), a state charter corporation dedicated to technology development; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of Corporate and Industrial Research at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; Visiting Fellow in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at Princeton University, Manager of Energy Product Development, Phelps Dodge Industries (1977-1981); Management Staff Scientist, AMETEK, Inc., Paoli, PA, (1975-77); Industry Specialist, Merrill Lynch; Securities Analyst, Drexel Firestone, Inc. and Dominick & Dominick, New York, NY, (1969-74); and Technical Staff Member, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Crawford Hill, NJ, (1968-69).

Dr. Bradford has published numerous technical and non-technical articles on financial and managerial subjects for technical publications and seminar presentations. He has co-authored the "AMETEK Solar Energy Handbook", and co-authored the popular trade book, "Ota Benga - The Pygmy at the Zoo". He is or has been an active member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE); the New York Academy of Sciences and Sigma Xi (an honorary engineering society); The Association of Energy Engineers (Charter Member); ASHRAE; ASTM (Subcommittee Chairman); the Space Studies Institute; the International Copper Research Association (INCRA); and the New Jersey Research and Development Council.

He is a Patent Agent, Registration # 30,030, licensed to practice before the U.S Patent and Trademark Office. He continues a legacy of his father, a Radio Engineer, who was a recognized member of the engineering team for the NASA Apollo missions.

Dr. Bradford is a native of Washington, D.C. He holds a BES degree from Johns Hopkins University, an MEE degree from the University of Virginia and an Sc.D. from Columbia University. He is a devotee of American history, and is an amateur astronomer.


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