Austin, Texas, United States
Experienced technology commercialization, innovation, and entrepreneurship expert, instructor, business mentor, program director, diplomat, and policy adviser. Experience with international and domestic strategic planning and program implementation. Strong relationships with federal government agencies, foreign officials, private industry, and domestic and international universities. Excellent management, negotiation, public speaking, research, writing, and organizational skills.
• Serve as Executive Director of the National Science Foundation's I-Corps Hub Southwest program, a multi-million dollar center of excellence in entrepreneurship housed at UT Austin that includes eight institutions of higher education from four states. • Instruct and present on technology commercialization at the national and international level. • Conduct outreach and business development to expand programs regionally and internationally. • Report data and outcomes to gauge the effectiveness of programs.
Deploy commercialization programs on behalf of the U.S. federal government and foreign governments and entities. Recent examples include the CleanTech Innovation Challenge Morocco and the Venture Pipeline Development Program Turkey.