
After an extensive search, the university has appointed Luke Hakes to the role of independent chairman in its technology transfer office.
Co-founder Chris Silva will step down as chief executive and leave the board of directors at the commercialisation firm, with Jill Smith becoming interim chief executive.
Manny Stockman has been promoted to senior associate, while Anurag Agarwal has been hired as an associate.
Eric Toone, who previously led the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative at Duke, and David Danielson, a precourt energy scholar at Stanford, have joined Breakthrough Energy Ventures.