| Ronald Kudla Named
Executive Director of Intellectual Property, Technology
Transfer, and New Ventures
Ronald Kudla, Ph.D., MBA, has been appointed
executive director of intellectual property, technology
transfer, and new ventures at Rensselaer. Kudla will oversee
the strategic development, protection, marketing, and licensing
of promising innovations arising from the Institute’s
research activities. He reports directly to President Shirley
Ann Jackson.
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Trish Galvin |
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In his most recent position as director
of academic liaison for North America within the Genetics
and Discovery Alliances Group at GlaxoSmithKline, he was
responsible for establishing strategic research alliances,
consortium agreements, technology in-licensing agreements,
multi-year research grants, consulting relationships, material
transfer agreements, and new technology assessments with
North American universities and government research entities.
Kudla previously served as the director
of the Office of Technology Licensing at the University
of Florida, and director of patents and licensing at the
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) in Madison,
Wisconsin. Kudla also has extensive experience in product
development in the pharmaceutical industry.
“Dr. Kudla’s experience in managing
intellectual property and analyzing and evaluating new technologies
has contributed to major revenue generation at the companies
and universities with which he has been affiliated,”
said President Jackson. “I expect he will use his
substantial influence and experience to advance Rensselaer’s
innovations and partnerships with industry through technology
transfer and new venture investment.
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“Dr. Kudla’s
experience in managing intellectual property and analyzing
and evaluating new technologies has contributed to major
revenue generation at the companies and universities
with which he has been affiliated. I expect he will
use his substantial influence and experience to advance
Rensselaer’s innovations and partnerships with
industry through technology transfer and new venture
investment."
— President Shirley Ann Jackson
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Kudla will oversee Rensselaer’s Office
of Technology Commercialization (OTC) and its renowned Incubator
Program. The Incubator Program at Rensselaer was founded
in 1980 and is one of the oldest U.S. incubators and the
first in the country to be wholly sponsored and operated
by a university.
The
Rensselaer Plan makes growing new technological
ventures and creating value through commercialization a
high priority. Accordingly, activity in the OTC has increased
dramatically. In fiscal year 2002, the office reported 70
invention disclosures — more than double the number
in previous years — and nine commercialization deals,
again about twice the previous volume.
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