David J. Mitchell

Dr. David J. Mitchell is Vice President and General Manager of Battelle's Transportation Division. 

Dr. Mitchell is a native of Morgantown, WV. He received the BSEE degree from WVU in 1971, and completed graduate studies at MS and MBA levels. While at WVU he worked as Chief Engineer for radio stations WAJR-AM and WAJR-FM. He was also active in the WVU and Morgantown radio clubs. After graduation, he joined the staff of the Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit System, a federally funded demonstration of an automated, advanced technology surface transportation system. When the PRT went into public service in 1975, he became the System Engineering Manager, responsible for system design and engineering support and for bringing the system from a demonstration site to a full scale transit operation in three years and leading the system through two, back-to-back 100-year winters in Morgantown. 

In 1979, he joined Battelle Memorial Institute and was responsible for all transportation related work at Battelle in its 20+ offices worldwide. Mr. Mitchell also worked in application of communication, computer and information technology to surface transportation. He and his team pioneered in-car navigation systems for world-wide use in the mid-1990s and wrote the regulations for drug and alcohol testing US-wide is all forms of transportation systems.   

He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi, and a Registered Professional Engineer in Ohio. He is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and the Board of Directors of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America. 

After induction into the Academy, Mr. Mitchell became a corporate Vice President at Battelle and provided key leadership to the Office of the CEO for Battelle worldwide. During that time, Mr. Mitchell led his division to grow revenues by 700% in five years and increased profitability by 300% in three years becoming Battelle’s fastest growing and most profitable division. He left his position as Vice President and General Manager of Battelle's Transportation Division and the Office of the CEO after 20 years of very successful technical and business ventures in 1999. He next provided strategic and technology management consulting to start-up companies, government agencies, commercial companies, and academic/non-profit institutions from 1999 to 2001. Mr. Mitchell joined Gannett Flemming in Camp Hill, PA as Vice President and Senior Consultant responsible for marketing and business development in the application of emerging technologies to the company’s existing client base. In 2002, he became Vice President of Operations at LogicTree in College Park, Md. He held that position from 2002 to 2004 and his responsibilities included business leadership (chief operating officer duties), marketing and business development, project management, and customer support. He positioned the company for rapid growth by establishing marketing, business development, project management and customer support processes. During his time at LogicTree was a key member of the management team that drove LogicTree to become the market leader in the emerging field of voice activated in-car navigation systems. 

From 2004 to 2005 Mr. Mitchell was Vice President and General Manager at Doyon Government Services in Washington, DC, where he created Doyon Government Services, a holding company. He started up three separate government service businesses (security, logistics, and construction & construction management) in three years. 

Mr. Mitchell was a strategic and technology management consultant in Washington, DC from 2005 to 2006, and later served as the Chief Operating Officer of Digital Now in Herndon, Virginia (2006-2007). For the next eight years Mr. Mitchell served as Vice President of Business Development at Global Language Center. 

Mr. Mitchell is currently Senior Vice President at Global Language Center (GLC), a position he has held since -2015. During his tenure at GLC, he has successfully re-competed GLC’s primary contract with the U.S. Department of State six times over 15 years and increased the number of staff from two to almost 300. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland in the A. James Clark School of Engineering's Professional Master of Engineering (ENPM) Program since 2008. He created and taught the graduate course ENPM 808A Fundamentals of Technology Startup Ventures.