Meet our Foundation Board
Jacquelynn Garofano ’06
Governance Committee Co-Chair
Dr. Jacquelynn (Jackie) Garofano is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology. As CTO and lead principal investigator, her primary focus is on developing and directing new technology projects and programs in collaboration with partner organizations – primarily federal agencies, national labs and consortiums, universities, global industrial corporations, and subject matter experts. Her career as a materials research scientist has been marked with numerous honors and achievements, including: a dozen technical publications and three U.S. Patent awards.
Garofano has been named one of Connecticut’s Women of Innovation® twice. First, as the recipient of the Collegian Innovation and Leadership Award in 2011 and, most recently, as a finalist in the Large Business Innovation and Leadership category for 2020 while at Raytheon Technologies.
She was also named to the “40 Under 40” lists compiled by Connecticut Magazine (2013) and Hartford Business Journal (2015), for professional excellence and leadership. She was recognized as a 2018 The Future is NOW awardee by the Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund for her work to advance women and girls in STEM.
Most recently, she’s been named the recipient of the 2020 Petit Family Foundation Women in Science Leadership Award and the 2020 Spark Award for mentorship by the Society of Women Engineers. A first-generation college student, Garofano earned her bachelor’s in physics with honors from Southern Connecticut State University, and master’s and doctoral degrees in materials science and engineering from the University of Connecticut. She sits on the SCSU Foundation’s governance and development committees.
