Webinar

Managing University Equity

Date:  Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Time: Noon – 1 p.m. ET
Cost: $0 – AUTM Members / $225 – Non-Members
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Join us for an engaging webinar where experts from three universities will share their experiences and strategies in managing startup equity. This session is tailored for university administrators, technology transfer professionals, and anyone involved in equity management within academic institutions. Our panelists will cover a range of topics, including how and when their institutions receive startup equity, the types of equity managed, tracking and compliance processes, and the decision-making and procedures for divesting shares. Additionally, they will share best practices and valuable lessons learned from their experiences.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand how to manage startup equity in university environment
  • Know what documents are needed, how to collect them, and how to process them
  • Know how to value an equity portfolio
  • Develop ongoing equity management

Instructors

Instructor Bios

Cameron Crain is the Venture Acceleration Manager at Vanderbilt University. He joined the Center of Technology Transfer and Commercialization at Vanderbilt in 2022, working with the New Ventures Team to provide venture acceleration services and support to faculty and staff in conceiving, planning, building, launching, and operating startup companies that commercialize intellectual property owned by Vanderbilt University. Before moving to Nashville, Cameron was the Co-Founder and COO of X Co, an early-stage technology accelerator based in Reno and Las Vegas. He has considerable experience collaborating with a diverse range of investors focused on AI, clean energy, educational tech, healthcare tech, medical devices, and mobility.

Nigel Long is the founder and Senior Managing Director of Trade Street Advisors, LLC, an advisory-focused investment banking firm. He is a seasoned investment banker, serving as a senior advisor to Fortune 500 companies and several of the nation’s largest minority-owned businesses. He has invested in or advised on more than $2 billion of private equity, venture capital, and real estate transactions. Nigel has served on the boards of directors of several private companies and civic organizations. He has contributed to national studies on capital markets innovations and has been an invited guest at The White House for numerous urban policy briefings. Nigel currently sits on the board of directors of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Foundation, which holds startup equity investments on behalf of the University.

Alla McCoy has more than 15 years of experience in entrepreneurship, technology transfer, and innovation. She is passionate about empowering faculty and graduate students at the University of Maryland (UMD) College Park to transform their research into products or services that benefit the public. As the Director of Venture Development at UMD's UM Ventures, the technology transfer arm of UMD, she designs, launches, and manages programs that provide education, mentoring, funding, and networking opportunities for university entrepreneurs. She also works with the university and regional entrepreneurship and economic development organizations to build a functional ecosystem that creates an entrepreneurship path for UMD innovators, taking advantage of the rich ecosystem resources at the right time.

Nadine Wong, PhD, is the Managing Director, Licensing & Strategic Initiatives at Duke University, where she oversees the licensing function and provides strategic support to translational, operational, and outreach initiatives within the Office for Translation and Commercialization. Nadine joined Duke in 2022 after a 15+ year career leading interdisciplinary research and translational initiatives at the University of Michigan. She holds degrees in chemistry from Whittier College and Stanford University.