He is a serial entrepreneur, corporate executive and university technology commercialization executive.
US-based George Washington University has hired its first director of the Office of Technology Transfer, Steven Kubisen (pictured).
He is a serial entrepreneur, corporate executive and university technology commercialization executive.
For more than seven years until 2009, Kubisen was vice-president of Utah State University’s Office of Technology Commercialization and senior director of ventures and the medical device/software/engineering portfolio group at The Johns Hopkins University before setting up Seguro Surgical.
During his four-year tenure at Utah State, Kubisen tripled licensing revenue and moved the institution into the top five in the nation for start-ups per research dollar. During his three-year tenure at Hopkins, the institution increased start-ups from a historical annual level of four to 12 in 2008, with $76m in venture capital raised.
He started his career in research and then moved to research management and general management for Union Carbide, Akzo Coatings, GE and Alcoa.
Kubisen joins Brian Coblitz, a licensing associate who covers the life sciences intellectual property portfolio.
