Faculty Advisor
Dr. Timothy C. Summers is Director of Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Engagement within the College of Information Studies (Maryland’s iSchool) at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also CEO of Summers & Company, a strategic management and cyber advisory firm that uses scholarship and practice techniques to evaluate management decisions to ensure that organizations can deal with a variety of uncertainty. Timothy is a trusted advisor and consultant to Fortune 500 companies and governments worldwide. He specializes in the scholarship and practice of hacker cognitive psychology (the hacker’s mindset) and the normal chaos paradigm. He is a member of the Advisor Board for the CIP Institute, a non-profit Europe-based organization that brings together scientists and practitioners in the field of crisis. An advocate for community development, he is a mentor for startups through FounderTrac, a Maryland-based startup accelerator and sits on the Advisory Board of McKinley Technology High School, a science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM) high school in the District of Columbia. Timothy carries a Bachelors in Computer Science from Elizabeth City State University, a Masters in Information Security Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Organizational Management from Case Western Reserve University.
