Marc is the Vice Provost for Innovation and New Ventures of UNHInnovation. He joined UNH in 2010. Marc has an extensive background in intellectual asset management, licensing, and start-up formation. In addition to his position with UNH, he was the founding director of the Peter T. Paul Entrepreneurship Center and serves as the Executive Director of the New Hampshire Innovation Research Center, New Hampshire’s only translational research funding program. Marc is currently the Principal Investigator of UNH’s National Science Foundation I-Corps Site.

Laura is the Technology Transfer Officer for the non-profit organization Versiti | Blood Research Institute. In this role, she is responsible for technology protection, commercialization, and partnership development. Laura has a diverse background as a research scientist, entrepreneur, and start-up advisor, and broad experience bringing inventions to market.

Graham is a Director of Quantifex Pty. Ltd. and Kakadu Software Pty. Ltd., a start-up out of the University of New South Wales, Australia (UNSW). Graham was previously the General Manager of NewSouth Innovations Pty. Ltd., UNSW’s technology transfer office. Graham started his career in investment banking, with roles at Deutsche Bank and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, before moving to UNSW.

Rich is the Executive Director of MSU Technologies, the technology transfer office at Michigan State University, the nation’s pioneer land grant university, leading an office of 20 professionals who manage the university’s diverse intellectual property portfolio. Rich has been in university technology transfer since 2008. Prior to joining MSU, Rich served as the Director of Technology Transfer for the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan

Hannah is the Director for Innovation, Patents & Licensing in the Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Partnerships (OTTCP) at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She earned her PhD in biology at Caltech and, after several years as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in Toronto, joined OTTCP in 2007. She supports Caltech’s Chief Innovation Officer in strategic planning and oversight of OTTCP’s operations, and has managed intellectual property portfolios for Caltech in a range of technical fields including materials science, imaging, neurobiology, and microfluidics.

Andy is the Associate Vice President for Research and Director of the Office of Innovation and Technology Commercialization at Louisiana State University and he has over ten years of experience in technology licensing and commercialization.

Joann MacMaster is Chief Executive Officer of Desert Angels, a non-profit organization of accredited investors who invest in Southwest regional start-up or early stage companies. Previously she served as Director of Venture Development for the University of Arizona’s Tech Launch Arizona (TLA) team, and was Director of AzCI, a tech incubator housed at the UA Tech Park, and as Program Director and OTT Liaison for the UA McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship.

Ian McClure is the Director of the Office of Technology Commercialization at the University of Kentucky where he oversees a team of 18 staff managing the University’s inventions. In this role, Ian is also a PI on the NIH’s Regional Technology Transfer Accelerator Hub grant for the Southeast IDeA states region, chairs the Ohio Valley Affiliates for Life Sciences (OVALS), and is a PI and sits on the Board for the Commonwealth Commercialization Center (C3), a state-supported project to provide tech transfer services to all other universities in the state. Ian began his career as a Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and Intellectual Property (IP) transactions attorney. Following private practice, he helped build a start-up company in Chicago that was the world’s first financial exchange for IP and technology rights, which he led through product development, capital raise, proof of concept and growth to 30+ full time employees.   

Heidi is the Managing Member and Chair of the Biotechnology & Chemical practice group at McKee, Voorhees & Sease, PLC., a boutique patent firm located in Des Moines, Iowa.

John is the director of the Office of Technology Licensing at Princeton University, and has been working in academic technology licensing for more than 25 years. At Princeton, John manages a group of nine and has overall responsibility for protecting and commercializing all of Princeton’s intellectual property. Prior to his career in technology commercialization, John worked in industry in a variety of sales and marketing positions.

Sharon works for Lilly’s Discovery Search and Evaluate External Innovation team as a Strategic Advisor to partnering with academic, alumni and external parties to foster novel business models, research collaborations and licensing opportunities. She is also co-chair of BIO’s Technology Transfer Office Committee.