Josh Geballe will become senior associate provost for entrepreneurship and innovation at Yale later this month, and will serve as managing director of its OCR.
Yale University has appointed Josh Geballe, chief operating officer for the US state of Connecticut, as its senior associate provost for entrepreneurship and innovation effective February 14, 2022.
Geballe will also become managing director of the Office of Cooperative Research (OCR), replacing Jon Soderstrom who retired in June 2021 after more than 25 years in charge. OCR has generated $3.7bn in venture capital investment and 60 spinouts in the past six years alone, and has secured more than 1,600 patents worldwide since the office was set up in 1982.
He will work closely with Clare Leinweber, executive director of the student entrepreneurship hub Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking.
Geballe, a graduate of Yale, has been with the state of Connecticut since February 2020, having previously spent 17 years in the technology sector where his career stops included vice-president…
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