The College of Engineering is presenting the inaugural Herman Schneider Distinguished Alumnus Award to Dan Kellogg (’75 ChE), managing director of Crystal Ventures. Kellogg co-founded Crystal Ventures in 1997 with Joseph Tzeng in Cleveland, Ohio. Crystal Ventures is a $170 million global family of venture funds focused on high-tech investments in software, online content, infrastructure technologies and semiconductors. Crystal Ventures has invested in 34 companies and has taken eight of these companies public.

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Robert C. Williams is receiving the inaugural College of Engineering Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition for his lifetime of achievement and contribution to industry. A native Cincinnatian, Williams graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from UC in 1953 and an MBA from Xavier University in 1957. While a student, he co-oped with Gardner Board and Carton Company in Middletown, Ohio. Williams and a partner took two unprofitable paper manufacturing facilities in Richmond, Va., created the James River Corporation, which expanded from a local firm with $4 million in annual sales to become a global giant in the paper industry with sales reaching nearly $8 billion. Williams established the Bob and Barbara Williams Leadership Scholarship for UC’s College of Engineering. Throughout his personal, family and business life, he has exemplified the aims and ideals of the College of Engineering exhibited in Dean Herman Schneider’s articles of faith—“Joining Theory and Practice, Linking Education and Industry, Through Knowledge and Experience.”

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