Invitation to Join the Board of Directors
Design Team Collaboration
Barry Broome,
I am following up on my previous suggestion, from a decade ago, the foresight that the next logical step in your economic development career is not simply another regional initiative, but a larger national and international platform: a closed-loop, process-driven model built around Innovation & Philanthropic Alignment.
The result is Planting Foundations...
Throughout history, the few innovators who truly break through have not merely created businesses; they have created new industries, new economic gravity, new philanthropic capacity, and new opportunity structures for generations that follow.
Yet the current reality is that most new businesses fail, not because innovation is weak, but because the surrounding system is fragmented, undercapitalized, politically inconsistent, and often more interested in celebrating innovation rhetorically than building the infrastructure required for innovators to survive. This is the gap we close...
The Design Team Collaboration, Machine Design Network, Intl. Collaboration Centers, Axiom Quantum, Luminary Compute, and related business platforms are being organized as a coordinated innovation ecosystem: research, youth development, engineering, manufacturing, medical informatics, philanthropic deployment, venture creation, and commercialization working together as one economic-development engine.
This is not a conventional incubator model...
It is a full-cycle economic development architecture designed to move innovators from concept, to prototype, to manufacturing, to sales, to reinvestment, to philanthropic impact.
Innovators are the rock stars of industry. When they break through, they leapfrog obstacles in an instant. Those who copy them are already behind, because the original innovator has moved on to steps three and four while the market is still trying to understand step one. Over Twenty Years have passed, and now that Vision is becoming Clear... Has any capital been deployed? None. Yet, my programs are poised for Moonshot.
That first-mover creative force must be protected, financed, structured, scaled, and turned into repeatable opportunity. That is where your experience becomes critical. We need a strong deal-closing economic development leader added to the core Board of Directors—someone who understands public-private partnerships, capital attraction, institutional alignment, site strategy, business recruitment, and how to translate vision into executable regional and national economic wins.
I believe you are the right choice. Your career has already demonstrated the ability to zoom out from local activity and build broader regional momentum. The opportunity now is to apply that experience to a larger innovation platform—one capable of aligning foundations, investors, corporations, universities, government programs, entrepreneurs, youth talent, and philanthropic missions into a single productive engine.
The mission is direct: Build the infrastructure that allows innovation to become philanthropy, job creation, wealth creation, youth opportunity, national competitiveness, and global humanitarian impact.
I would like to invite you to participate as a strategic Board-level economic development leader for this initiative. Your role would help guide the deal structure, site strategy, investor alignment, public-private positioning, and philanthropic-economic model required to move this from a powerful vision into a durable operating platform.
This is the next level of economic development: not merely attracting companies, but creating the conditions where new companies, new industries, and new philanthropic outcomes are continuously planted, protected, and scaled.I would welcome the opportunity to discuss how your leadership can help shape this platform and define the next chapter of innovation-centered economic development.
Strategic Alignment Points
1. Economic Development Career Expansion Barry Broome’s next-level opportunity is to move beyond single-region economic development into a national and international innovation platform that integrates capital, facilities, manufacturing, education, philanthropy, and commercialization.
2. Closed-Loop Innovation Model The ICC/DTC/MDN ecosystem creates a full-cycle process: idea generation, technical review, design, prototyping, validation, manufacturing, sales, reinvestment, and philanthropic deployment.
3. Planting Foundations Thesis Innovation is not separate from philanthropy. Properly structured innovation produces opportunity, jobs, wealth, humanitarian solutions, youth development, and long-term community strength.
4. Deal-Closing Board Role Barry would bring the economic-development discipline needed to close large partnerships, align investors, structure site opportunities, and coordinate public-private participation.
5. Correction of Startup Failure Conditions Most startups fail because the system around them is fragmented. This platform directly addresses that failure through shared infrastructure, mentorship, engineering depth, manufacturing support, and capital alignment.
6. Innovators as Industry Rockstars True innovators create the first wave. Followers copy the visible product, but rarely possess the original inspiration or next-step vision. The ecosystem must therefore identify, protect, and scale original innovation.
7. Youth and Workforce Development Students and young innovators can rotate into leadership discussions, research activities, design reviews, philanthropic projects, and commercialization pathways, creating a generational talent pipeline.
8. Public-Private-Philanthropic Alignment Foundations, investors, corporations, universities, government agencies, and entrepreneurs can be aligned into one strategic operating model rather than isolated, competing silos.
9. Regional-to-Global Economic Architecture The model can begin with key U.S. locations and expand internationally through collaboration centers, manufacturing nodes, emergency medical systems, compute infrastructure, agricultural solutions, and humanitarian deployment.
10. Board-Level Value Proposition Barry’s value is not ceremonial. His role would be strategic: deal flow, capital attraction, economic-development positioning, site strategy, policy alignment, and execution discipline.