BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jeff Ressin
Treasurer
Jeff Ressin retired from the Federal government as an IT engineer and senior manager, and then spent 5+ years as a project manager at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
In addition to volunteering at Nova Labs, Jeff leads an FRC robotics team at James Madison HS. He likes to print, cut, and generate both wood and metal chips, which sometimes lead to various creations. Other interests include tennis, exercise, travel, and election work.
He lives in Vienna, VA with his wife of 30+ years. He has two grown sons that live in Philly and Richmond, respectively.
Jim Sweeney
Board Member
Jim Sweeney has 35 years of experience in all aspects of IT technology and has participated in three startups, leading one. When Jim's at Nova Labs, he can usually be found in the woodshop (mostly lathe lane) or the 3D printing area, where he was the first board member to successfully build and use a 3D printer as part of our build groups. He also served on the Makerfaire organizing committee for several years.
Jim is married and lives in Washington, DC, with his husband, Fred. He loves to cook for family and friends.
Trish Barber
Board Member
Trish Barber is Founder of 3WaysDigital and author of Why Women Pivot: Embracing Transitions Unique to Our Careers (available in spring of 2024). During her 30-year career, Trish has evolved from cable television, into tech marcom, and then to tech media, software, and marketing AI. She is a four-time entrepreneur who supports B2B, B2G and non-profits going through a growth transition due to organizational change such as a new product launches, VC investment, divisional spin-offs, grant awards, C-level management shifts, or big tech contract wins. She functions as a fractional CMO who preps her clients for independence with the 3WD team supplementing their operations as needed.
Trish has worked with both large ($7B) and small organizations ($200M) to operate and market new products and programs. She and the 3WD team sets up marketing operations, reskills, hires and trains a client’s internal staff and then launches the company to success. Trish is also devoted to the issues of supporting girls in STEAM and women in tech as well as improving women’s representation on corporate boards. She also mentors entrepreneurs through Virginia's Small Business Development Center's (SBDC) Innovation Commercialization Assistance Program (ICAP).
Trish has three grown children and has been married to her husband for over thirty years. She is an avid needleworker, retired taiko drummer and you will find her in in either Crafter's Cove or The Studio at NoVA Labs.
Bradley Matthews
Board Member
Bradley is very active in the woodshop but dabbles across all areas. In his day job, Bradley leads the U.S. Bank strategic product, partners, and marketing of commercial payments for middle market business customers.
Bradley has been in the financial services and payments business since 1998. His experience includes 13 years of leading strategy, development, and operations for financial services technologies at American Express.
Vince McCullough
Secretary
Vince McCullough is a retired software and systems engineer with over 40 years of experience in both engineering and management on large scale software development and systems integration programs.
As a model ship builder, his interests run the gamut of making disciplines, from wood working to metal and resin casting, and from machining to metal plating and rope making, albeit on a very small scale. He builds both from scratch and from kits and is very involved with model construction and restoration for the US Naval Academy Museum in Annapolis. A member of Nova Labs since September of 2021, his officiation affiliation is with the metal shop. However, his interests cut across virtually every shop in the lab.
Rajiv Dewan
Board Member
Rajiv is co-founder and Managing Partner of Indigo Arc and Blue Arc Ventures. Rajiv has over 25 years experience as a technologist and entrepreneur. As a Managing Partner at Indigo Arc, LLC. he leads business development and technical architecture teams. In addition to working on mission-critical infrastructure systems, Rajiv also works with companies to help them with their strategies for cloud computing and cyber security. He has a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University.
Justin Castillo
Board Member
Justin Castillo joined the Board of Nova Labs in late 2023. He has broad experience in education, technology and law, and currently serves as the General Counsel at BT Federal Inc. He also served for two terms as an elected member of the Falls Church City School Board and for three as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown.
Justin is an avid cyclist and bike commuter and does much of his own wrenching. He has a long list of skills that he’s eager to learn at NL, including drywall, metal working and 3D printing (good for some bike parts). His most audacious goal is to build a steel bike frame.
Patrick Marstall
President
Pat Marstall is a program manager and engineer supporting government projects. He is a compulsive maker in both his professional and personal lives, and has designed and built everything from Bowie knives to radioisotope thermoelectric satellite reactors to cutting boards to microgravity toilets.
Rutledge Simmons
Board Member
Rutledge has more than 20 years of experience as a board member, corporate officer or general counsel of nonprofit organizations that help improve conditions in underserved communities and the lives of residents in those communities.
As a trained corporate lawyer working at both law firms and in-house at nonprofits he has extensive knowledge of commercial transactions, employee relations, litigation management, intellectual property, board governance and affordable housing matters.
He is the Vice President and General Counsel of NEO Philanthropy, a national nonprofit that serves as a bridge between funders and the changemakers leading social movements.
Rutledge is a graduate of Harvard University, with a major in American History, and Columbia Law School. He resides in Fairfax, VA.