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Joy Goswami
Financial Management

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Joy Goswami, Portfolio Chair - Financial Management

Joy is the Assistant Director of the Office of Economic Innovation and Partnerships, where he oversees and manages technology transfer activities and corporate partnerships for the University of Delaware. Among his other roles, Joy is actively involved in managing intellectual property, assisting in establishing start-up and spin-off companies, and bringing forth university-industry collaborations and partnerships. He has more than 18 years of experience in the field of business development, and a career that has produced highly-regarded commercialization strategies and outreach practices of novel technologies in engineering, biotechnology, agriculture and the bio-medical sector.

Joy is a Registered Patent Agent for the US Patent & Trademark Office. He is also a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) reviewer for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Joy is a past recipient of AUTM's Howard Bremer Scholarship.

In his capacity as Chair of the Financial Management Portfolio, Joy oversees AUTM's Audit, Finance and Investment Committees.

Joy Goswami

+1-302-650-9710
jgoswami@udel.edu

David Gulley
International Strategy

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David Gulley, PhD, CLP, RTTP - International Strategy

David is Founding Director of the Technology Transfer Office (TTO) of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology, and Research Trust, a regional TTO serving the island’s public and private universities. For more than 30 years, David has been active in technology transfer, industry engagements, and international professional development. Before establishing the TTO, he led a collaboration between AUTM and Chile’s CORFO to establish 21 technology transfer offices in Chile. 

He retired from the University of Illinois where he served as Associate Vice President, Technology and Economic Development, and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research at the Chicago campus. David is past Chair, Certified Licensing Professionals, Inc. (CLP) and is current Chair of CLP Standards, Admissions, and Recertification. He also served as AUTM’s first representative to the ATTP Council and is a current member of the Review Panel. He was selected as the first France-USA Technology Transfer Exchange Fellow. 

In his capacity as Cabinet Chair of the International Strategy Portfolio, he oversees regional committees for Africa, Australasia, Canada, Europe, and Latin America, and leads efforts to develop key international alliances with select technology transfer associations worldwide. David is the recipient of the 2019 AUTM Chair’s Award. 

 David Gulley

+1-787-523-5866
dgulley@prsciencetrust.org

Yatin Karpe
Professional Development

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Yatin Karpe, Portfolio Chair - Professional Development

Yatin is Director of the Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) at Rowan University in Mullica Hill, New Jersey. Yatin is primarily responsible for overseeing technology transfer and intellectual property management at Rowan, as well as engaging with, and promoting, local, regional and national collaborations with industry, state and federal entities.

Prior to Rowan, Yatin worked as Associate Director of the Office of Technology Transfer at Lehigh University and as Project & Technology Manager at North Carolina State University’s OTT. He has more than 15 years of combined experience managing all aspects of technology transfer, intellectual property, innovation management, licensing, commercialization, venture development and entrepreneurship in an academic environment.

In his capacity as Chair of the Professional Development Portfolio, Yatin oversees the Online and In-person Professional Development Committees.

Yatin Karpe

+1-919-749-9416
yatinkarpe@gmail.com

Hassan R. Naqvi
Meeting Development

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Hassan R. Naqvi, PhD - Meeting Development

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Hassan R. Naqvi

+1-410-614-0693
hrn@jhu.edu

Ragan Robertson
Metrics & Surveys

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Ragan Robertson, Portfolio Chair - Metrics & Surveys

Ragan is a Business Development & Information Systems Officer at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), involved in the marketing, patenting and licensing of the University’s extensive life science technology portfolio. With more than 10 years of technology transfer experience, he brings industry best practices to UCLA Technology Development Group to help the University become a world-wide leader in licensing and entrepreneurism.

Prior to joining UCLA, Ragan worked at Columbia Technology Ventures (CTV), the technology transfer office for Columbia University in New York City.

There, he was part of the operations team and led a variety of projects including organizing licensee compliance, improving the patent decision process, and programming an internal website for management reporting.

In his capacity as Chair of the Metrics & Surveys Portfolio, Ragan oversees the Licensing Survey Task Force and Salary Survey Task Force.

Ragan Robertson

+1-310-206-8731
ragan.robertson@tdg.ucla.edu

Leef Smith Barnes
Marketing & Comms

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Leef Smith Barnes, Portfolio Chair - Marketing & Comms

Leef is the Chief Marketing Officer for AUTM.

Before joining AUTM in 2016, Leef was the Deputy Head of Marketing & Communications at Cambridge Enterprise, the innovation office of the University of Cambridge.

While Leef is a big fan of corporate communications, she bleeds ink, having spent 16 years as a reporter for The Washington Post. There she covered every manner of story — from terrorism to the folly of the weather. She still fancies herself an advocate for the public good.

In her capacity as Chair of the Marketing & Communications Portfolio, Leef oversees the Strategic Communications, Website, Better World Project and AUTM Innovation Marketplace Committees.

Leef Smith Barnes

+1-703-870-4895
lsmithbarnes@autm.net

Cassie Tran
Membership

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Cassie Tran, PhD - Membership

Bio to come.
Cassie Tran

+1-215-590-0174
trancm@email.chop.edu

Mike Waring
Advocacy & Alliances

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Mike Waring, Portfolio Chair - Advocacy & Alliances

Mike is Executive Director of Federal Relations for the University of Michigan. He also serves as Director for the University's Washington, DC Office. For more than 20 years, Mike has been active on tech transfer and patent legislation, and currently serves as Chair of the Association of American Universities Task Force on Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Tech Transfer. Before joining U-M, Mike was Vice President, Government Relations for the National Association of Broadcasters. He also worked on Capitol Hill as legislative aide and press secretary for Rep. Harold Rogers (R-KY).

In his capacity as Cabinet Chair of the Advocacy & Alliances Portfolio, Mike oversees the Public Policy Advisory Committee, the Public Policy Legal Task Force and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Committee. He is a past recipient of both AUTM's Bayh-Dole Award, and Volunteer of the Year Award. He serves as an advisor for the AUTM Foundation.

Mike Waring

+1-202-554-0630
mwaring@umich.edu

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