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Business Advisory Board
In order for CU to leverage its expertise in technology transfer, TTO constantly seeks to expand partnership relationships in all aspects of what we do: with business, with other academic institutions, with Colorado communities, with the state, and with the federal government. To accomplish this one of the first initiatives of the new TTO management was to bring prominent members of the business, legal and financial communities together with leading CU faculty entrepreneurs to explore ways to improve the process of commercializing inventions from research bench to marketplace. From these meeting held in 2002, the Business Advisory Board emerged.
Over the past years the TTO Business Advisory Board has played a key role in assessing TTO performance, advising on new TTO initiatives, providing access to the technology support business community and advocating for resources necessary to build a world-class technology transfer operation at CU. About one quarter of the Board membership turns over each year. Academic members help to provide insights about university operations and culture during Board discussions.
Business Community Representatives |
| Name |
Title/Company |
| Artinger, Michael |
Director, Fitzsimons BioBusiness Partners |
| Blankenship, Larry |
Serial Medical Device Entrepreneur |
| Bour, Tim |
Executive Director, Boulder Innovation Center |
| Costantini, Lauren |
Consultant |
| Deriso, George |
Serial Software Entrepreneur |
| Donahue, Jerry |
Board Member, University License and Equity Holdings, Inc. |
| Duke, Rick |
Serial Biotech Entrepreneur |
| Golden-Schubert, Shannon |
Partner and co-founder at Life + Tech Law |
| Hazlitt, Chris |
Partner, Holmes, Roberts Owens |
| Henston, Doug |
Renewable Energy Entrepreneur |
| Linfield, Jim |
Managing Partner, Cooley Godward |
| Merigold, Catharine |
Managing Partner, Vista Ventures |
| Mills, Tim |
Partner, Sanderling Ventures |
| Nelson, Paul |
Managing Director at Clean Range Ventures |
| O'Neal, Rex R. |
Partner at Faegre & Benson LLP; co-chair of the firm’s emerging companies practice and new energy, clean technology and climate initiative |
| Plam, Misha |
Founder of BiOptix and AmideBio; serial entrepreneur |
| Riebel, Holli |
President and CEO of the Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) |
| Ryan, John |
Partner (medical technology) at Onset Ventures |
| Shapard, Chris |
Executive Director of the Colorado Cleantech Industry Association (CCIA) |
| Simon, Laura |
Director of UC Denver’s Office of BioPharma Alliances |
| Steele Fintan, R. |
Associate Director at CU-Boulder’s Colorado Initiative in Molecular Biotechnology (CIMB) |
| Yang, Trent |
Director of Entrepreneurship and Business Development at the CU-Boulder Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI) |
CU Administration Representatives: |
| Name |
Title/Company |
| Allen, David |
Associate Vice President for Technology Transfer |
| Jerde, Paul |
Executive Director, Deming Center for Entrepreneurship, Leeds School of Business |
| Shea, Catherine |
CU Associate Counsel for Technology Transfer and Research Compliance
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| Silva, Rick |
Director, UC Denver, Technology Transfer Office |
| Smerdon, Tom |
Director of Licensing and New Business Development, Technology Transfer Office |
| Sture, Stein |
Assoc. Vice Chancellor for Research, CU-Boulder |
Tallman, Kate |
Director, UCCS and UC-B, Technology Transfer Office |
| Traystman, Richard |
Vice Chancellor for Research
, UC Denver |
| Wilkerson, Dan |
Vice President, University Counsel, University of Colorado |
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