Global University Venturing

Sean Fielding has worked for University of Exeter for nearly three decades, during which time his board memberships included ATTP, SETsquared and PraxisAuril.

Mike Ravenscroft is the new managing director of the $16m Maryland Momentum Fund, replacing Claire Broido Johnson.

Charbel Rizk has spun Oculi out of Johns Hopkins University to commercialise technology that gives computer vision the capabilities of the human eye.

Krystyn Van Vliet will move from MIT to Cornell in February to take over as vice-president for research and innovation and a professor in the College of Engineering.

Northern Illinois University’s vice-president of research and innovation partnerships Gerald Blazey has announced his retirement at the end of this academic year.

CIO David Adams has accepted a new role as commissioner of Indiana’s Department of Workforce Development and will be replaced by Ryan Hays at the university.

Maxine Ficarra has been with the organisation since its original incarnation of Praxis Courses and CEO since it became PraxisAuril in 2017.

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Launched just a year ago to build on work at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Cleerly has now closed an oversubscribed series C round.

Mary Albertson is the new director for Georgia Tech’s Office of Technology Licensing, joining from University of Utah’s Pivot Center.

Oxford Science Enterprises now has just over $1bn under management and already boasts a portfolio of more than 80 University of Oxford spinouts.