People Moves
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Cornell revamps innovation activities, appoints Matt Marx
Matt Marx will establish the Cornell Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and serve as vice provost.
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Innovate Calgary CEO John Wilson retires
John Wilson has left the University of Calgary’s innovation arm after a decade, with Shawn Baxter taking over as interim leader.
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Tim Dixon leaves Purdue for AgriNovus Indiana
Tim Dixon had been the managing director of Purdue Dial Ventures, which recently raised initial capital for Fund II, since October 2021.
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Ohio State puts Sanjay Krishna in charge of innovation
Sanjay Krishna has been named senior associate vice president for innovation and strategic ventures at the Ohio State University.
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QUT promotes Kate Taylor to top commercialisation job
Kate Taylor has been appointed acting chief commercialisation and development officer at the Queensland University of Technology.
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Indiana University’s IU Inc. finds leader in David Rosenberg
Indiana University has created IU Inc. to engage with partners more effectively, and David Rosenberg will serve as the inaugural president and CEO.
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University of Lincoln hires Michele Barbour to oversee commercialisation
Michele Barbour will become the pro vice chancellor for research and commercialisation at the University of Lincoln in the autumn.
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Meredith Meyer Grelli takes on new entrepreneurship role at Carnegie Mellon
Meredith Meyer Grelli has been named inaugural vice provost for entrepreneurship and associate vice president at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Trinity College Dublin promotes Vincent Coole to director of innovation
Vincent Coole has been promoted to manage Trinity Innovation.
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RGU promotes Chris Moule to director of research, innovation and enterprise
Chris Moule has worked at Robert Gordon University since 2010 and has been head of innovation and entrepreneurship for the last eight years.
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Samuel Kim becomes permanent CIO at Texas A&M University
Samuel Kim was named interim chief innovation officer in October last year and has now been appointed permanently.
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Craig Simmons takes on innovation role at the University of Newcastle
Craig Simmons has been promoted to deputy vice chancellor of research and innovation at the University of Newcastle.
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Rod Russell steps in as interim VP for research and innovation at Memorial
Rod Russell, the associate vice-president for research since January, will take over following Tana Allen’s departure at the end of the week.
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IU starts looking for Nick Hammond’s successor
Indiana University is seeking a new associate vice president for innovation and commercialisation, a role currently held by Nick Hammond.
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Minnesota chooses Cynthia Carnes as VP for research and innovation
Cynthia Carnes has spent the past three decades at the Ohio State University, and will join the University of Minnesota in July.
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ANU appoints Stuart Wyithe as deputy VC for research and innovation
Stuart Wyithe was previously the director of the Australian National University’s Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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Mok Seung-hwan joins South Korea’s Ministry of SMEs and Startups
Mok Seung-hwan has been the chief executive officer of Seoul National University Technology Holdings since 2020.
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University of Stirling recruits Teesside’s Steph Bales
Steph Bales has run knowledge exchange at Teesside University since 2017, and is a past chair of ARMA and INORMS.
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LIST picks Jennifer Dos Santos to oversee IP and licensing
Jennifer Dos Santos was previously a technology transfer officer at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology for more than a decade.
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Guelph promotes Mazyar Fallah to VP for research and innovation
Mazyar Fallah is currently the dean of the College of Biological Science at the University of Guelph, and will step into his new role on 25 May 2026.
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Amir Rizwan steps away from London Social Ventures as pilot phase concludes
Amir Rizwan has stepped down as director of London Social Ventures, which concluded its two-year pilot phase with a report last month.
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Dipanjan Pan picked for new innovation role at Penn State’s Huck Institutes
Penn State’s Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences has named Dipanjan Pan its inaugural director for innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems.
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Francis Crick Institute builds out entrepreneurship team
Jo Mills has joined as head of entrepreneurship and KQ Labs, while Ella Moonan Howard and Faye Murphy have also joined the team.
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UNL solidifies innovation leadership with Jennifer Mize Nelson’s appointment
Jennifer Mize Nelson’s permanent appointment follows University of Nebraska-Lincoln hiring Cheryl Horst and Zane Gernhart in recent months.
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Dartmouth College creates new role for tech transfer leader Eric Fossum
Eric Fossum, who’s been Dartmouth’s vice provost for entrepreneurship and technology transfer since 2017, will step into a new role in July.
