2020 Date, Time, and Location TBA
This workshop is for people who want to learn about how to create and fund a startup.
Topics include:
- Invention disclosure
- Assessing the disclosure
- Protecting IP
- SU formation
Start up support (funding, management. Mentorship, etc)
About the presenters
Cheryl Turnbull
Ms. Turnbull is responsible for the financial affairs and strategic leadership of the equity holdings in university technology companies and management of the university’s Venture Capital Pool investments. Prior to joining The Ohio State University, she was founder of Capital Transactions, LLC, a business consulting firm providing mergers, acquisitions, and capital financing advisory services. Previously, Ms. Turnbull worked with various private investment funds, focused on companies with a proprietary competitive advantage. Ms. Turnbull received an MM from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a BS from Miami University.
Art Gooray, Senior Technology Licensing Manager- Engineering & Physical Sciences
Experienced senior-level Director of Technology Commercialization and Technology Transfer with proven strengths in creating commercialization value chain partnerships to ready technologies and commercialize inventions & discoveries emanating from world-class academic, government, and industrial research laboratories. For over 20 years, as an adjunct innovation and entrepreneurship technology- based ventures professor, delivering graduate professional curriculum, focusing on Technology Commercialization Best Practices. Recognized for establishing and executing strategic collaborations with universities, regional manufacturing partners and funding agencies to enhance manufacturing enterprise.