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Zara Brunner

NIST, Office of Advanced Manufacturing

WiM Corporate Professional

Member Since: 2021

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More than 20 years of marketing, business development, and management experience in the corporate, legal, and government sectors. Currently serving as the Acting Chief for the Partnerships and Outreach Division with the NIST Office of Advanced Manufacturing. The newly created division is responsible for strategic relationships with inter-agency and external partners and customers via an effective and efficient outreach and communications strategy focused on advanced manufacturing federal and public-private partnership efforts. Pilots, develops, and implements programs to prepare the workforce of the future for jobs in technologies developed
by Manufacturing USA institutes.

Previous roles included managing the marketing and communications group at the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), where she was a co-led the national Manufacturing Day campaign for MEP in coordination with other co-founders from industry (e.g., NAM, Manufacturing Institute, FMA, Discovery Communication's Science Channel and INDUSTRIAL).

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