Lesley Millar-Nicholson, CLP

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area United States

Director,Office of Technology Management (tech transfer)

Education

Tech transfer is one of the most invigorating areas to work in. The opportunity to engage with high caliber, creative individuals is unsurpassed. In my role as Director, I do work with really, really cool and smart people. I lead a team who are highly motivated to 'do the right thing' in the world of innovation and commercialization. We work to have impact in the most visible, and sometimes invisible ways. Taking early stage research, creative works, and concepts and working out, in partnership how we can make a difference, through commercialization, to have impact in the world. That's it in a nutshell. Developing vision and goals for the University and team, to advance the economic deve...