Mr. Steve Billingsley served as the Chief of Staff for the Inland Northwest Research Alliance (INRA) for three years prior to becoming the Executive Director on August 1, 2004. Steve is responsible for carrying out the goals of the Alliance, including developing and implementing strategic plans, developing business opportunities, monitoring contract and fiscal performance, managing human resources, budget development, technology transfer and intellectual property programs, sales and marketing, University communications, as well as acting as Principle Investigator for the Subsurface Science Research Institute program (under US Dept. of Energy contract # DE-FG07-02ID14277).

Billingsley reports to the INRA Board of Directors, consisting of the Presidents of the eight member universities. He also works closely with the INL to develop collaborative research opportunities between INRA faculty and INL researchers.

Prior to joining INRA, Steve was Vice President of Engineering with American Purification, Inc., where he was responsible for business development and planning, project and program management, product development and testing, pilot and laboratory design and implementation for new technologies, and project engineering and design. Prior to his work at American Purification, Steve worked as a Development Engineer in the Electrical & Chemical Processing Group of the Environmental Technology Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), where he managed projects, performed lab and pilot work on innovative remediation technologies, and assessed the feasibility of new technologies. He has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, earned at the University of Washington.