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University of Washington names new entrepreneurs-in-residence
The University of Washington's Center for Commercialization today announced that five technology leaders have joined the university as entrepreneurs-in-residence. The part-time program attempts to match industry experts with promising technologies at the university. The new crop of business leaders plan to investigate opportunities in a wide range of fields, from cleantech to software to medical devices. Meanwhile, the UW also reported that two EIRs are moving on to new startup companies.
We already reported on one of the new EIRs, former WTIA president and CEO Ken Myer who is spending time nosing around the UW's computer science program. But here are the other four:
David Croniser: The founder of Quantum Medical Systems, which was purchased in 1991 by Siemens, plans to spend his time researching opportunities in the health care field.
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David Kaplan: The Seattle entrepreneur and inventor -- who sold Seattle startup V2Green to GridPoint in 2008 -- plans to focus efforts on smart grid technologies. Prior to V2Green, Kaplan worked at Impinj and Microsoft.
Thomas Schulte: A 17-year veteran of Becton Dickinson, Schulte plans to spend time working with UW faculty and researchers on ways to commercialize medical and life sciences technologies. He also worked in product development at Micronics.
Terry Grant: A former Weyerhaeuser executive, Grant most recently led the company's bioproducts technology division and oversaw R&D for a $2-billion unit. Grant holds a doctorate in chemical engineering and holds six patents.
Meanwhile, two of the university's most recent EIRs are moving on to new startup opportunities that have connections to UW technologies.
Bob Wilcox is working on a new startup affiliated with the UW School of Medicine called Viket. And he's helping the university establish Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, which combines neurosurgery and engineering.
Jeffry Canin is moving full-time to Vitriosic, a company that he co-founded in order to commercialize Professor Minoru Taya’s electrochromatic window technology.
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