AUTM Foundation board members serve to strengthen and enhance AUTM’s mission to advance academic technology transfer by providing the capacity to secure resources for the Association and promote its goals. Our board members have industry expertise that positions them to identify individual, corporate and foundation leaders. They create the vital connections needed to support the Association’s efforts to advance academic technology transfer globally.
Yatin Karpe
Chair
Yatin S. Karpe, Ph.D. is Director of the Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) at Rowan University, located at the South Jersey Technology Park in Mullica Hill…Read More
Katherine “Katie” Pollard
Treasurer
Katie Pollard serves as the AUTM Foundation Treasurer. She is the associate director of venture development at the University of Toledo.
Nichole Mercier
Secretary
Nichole Mercier is an Assistant Vice Chancellor for Washington University in St. Louis & the Managing Director of the Office of Technology Management…Read More
George Chellapa
Board Member
George Chellapa joins from the AUTM Foundation Board with a plethora of experience in volunteer leadership as the co-chair of the Better World Project and as mentor.
Nicole Merli, CRA
Board Member
Nicole Merli, CRA is Alliance Manager at NIIMBL with proven expertise overseeing corporate and foundation relations (AOS: higher education industry/university partnerships). Management-level professional with skills in project management, business development, federal research administration, grant management, contract negotiations, public relations, communications, marketing, and financial reporting.