Howard G. McClintic

Howard McClintic is the first Executive Director of the CTC Foundation, headquartered in Washington, D.C. He joined the Foundation in October 1999, although the Foundation was established in the prior year by Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC), which is headquartered in Johnstown, PA and has twenty offices nationwide. The goal of the Foundation is to improve the quality of life for the general public through unique economic development initiatives that involve the private and public sectors as well as non-profit organizations.

Prior to joining the CTC Foundation, Mr. McClintic was the Executive Director of The Jefferson Energy Foundation for thirteen years, whose mission was to inform and educate the public about the nation’s energy choices and risks; energy security is of primary concern to this foundation. He developed some 21 hours of programming for PBS at Jefferson (and five hours more at CTC Foundation) and organized 5 two-day conferences, three National Energy Summits and two Energy in Asia ones, all held at the National Press Club.

In the mid 1980s, Mr. McClintic was a Staff Officer at the National Academy of Sciences’ Board on Energy and Mineral Resources, for four years, where he oversaw the publication of two reports. Prior to his work at the Academy, Mr. McClintic worked in New York and Washington for several energy policy-related consulting firms, with clients in the petroleum refining and petrochemical industries. His consulting assignments extended his background on energy-environment matters, to which he was exposed to in the course of four years as a Legislative Assistant for U.S. Senator Howard Baker on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. While earning his B. A. in Political Science and Economics at The George Washington University, Mr. McClintic was an intern for then U.S. Congressman John Heinz from his District in Pittsburgh, PA.

John M. Williams

John Williams has been a professional writer for 35 years. He has been writing about disability issues since 1978 and is a former award winning weekly columnist for Business Week Online Magazine.

One of the founders of www.AT508.COM, he also writes a weekly column for the National Organization on Disability called Closing the Gap. Its url is NOD.ORG.

Mr. Williams coined the phrase “Assistive Technology.” He is also the former founder and former publisher of Assistive Technology News, a tabloid newspaper covering assistive technology issues.

Since 1980, Williams has been writing on assistive technology’s benefits to people with disabilities. He has written about hundreds of products used by people with disabilities.

On disability issues he has interviewed President George Bush, former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, former first lady Hillary Clinton, former Attorney General Janet Reno, Clint Eastwood, Governor Jesse Ventura, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, former Senator Max Cleland, Congressman Jim Langevin, Vinton Cerf (one of the founding fathers of the Internet), Country Western singer Mel Tillis, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer, and other noted people in the disability arena.

Mr. Williams’ Business Week column won the Easter Seals Equality, Dignity and Integrity Award, Stuttering Foundation of America’s 2000 Journalism Award, California Media Access Award. His column was a factor for Business Week Online receiving the New Media Excellence Award, for Easter Seals giving Business Week its leadership corporate award in 1999, for McGraw Hill Publishing Company receiving the American Foundation for the Blind’s Lifetime Achievement Award for 20 years of writing about products benefiting blind people. In November 2000 he received the Charles Van Riper Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in writing about stuttering and his leadership in this promoting opportunities for people with speech impediments.

He has had more than 2,000 articles published and has written six books.

Mr. Williams is married and he and his wife have two children. He reads French. He graduated from King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, PA in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy. He loves traveling, reading, camping, hiking, fishing and attending baseball games.