THE INNOVATION FOUNDATION - Key Persons


Aaron Lively

Job Titles:
  • Commercialization Support Associate

Adam Niehenke - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Finance

Alex Cappello

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Innovation Foundation Board of Directors
  • Board Director / CEO, Capello Group Inc

Amanda Aker

Job Titles:
  • Commercialization Officer & Patent Agent

Amy Blackburn - CCO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Communications

Carmen Luetkemeyer

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Associate

Cary Baetz

Job Titles:
  • Board Director
  • Member of the Innovation Foundation Board of Directors

Chelsea Fitzgerald

Job Titles:
  • Business Development Associate

Chelsea Schafer

Job Titles:
  • Fiscal Operations Manager

Christa Fulkerson

Job Titles:
  • Director of Grants

Daniel Will

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director

Darin Tyson

Job Titles:
  • Director of Operations & Strategy
  • Operations
  • Secretary, the Innovation Foundation Board Director of Operations & Strategy, the Innovation Foundation

Dr. Jamey Jacob

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director

Dr. Jeanette Mendez

Job Titles:
  • Board Director / Provost & Senior Vice President of Academic Affaris, Oklahoma State University

Dr. Johnny Stephens

Job Titles:
  • Board Director / President, Center for Health Sciences at OSU

Dr. Kayse Shrum

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Innovation Foundation Board of Directors
  • Chairman, the Innovation Foundation Board President, Oklahoma State University

Dr. Kenneth Sewell

Job Titles:
  • Board Director / Vice President of Research, Oklahoma State University

Eddy Crosby

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President of Strategic Initatives and Park Development
  • Assistant Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Park Development

Elizabeth Pollard

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Innovation Foundation Board of Directors
  • Board Director / CEO, the Innovation Foundation / President, Cowboy Technologies, LLC
  • CEO & President / the Innovation Foundation at Oklahoma State University

Erika Artinger J.

Job Titles:
  • Legal Counsel, the Innovation Foundation Board

Hannah Whorton

Job Titles:
  • Energy Policy Analyst

Heather Bowerman

Job Titles:
  • Board Director / CEO, DotLab

Jai Hari Rajendran

Job Titles:
  • Technology and Business Development Manager

James Spencer

Job Titles:
  • Director of LaunchPad Center for Advanced Air Mobility

Jim Twerdahl

Job Titles:
  • Board Director / Marketing & Strategy Consultant, Twerdahl & Associates

John Nickel

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director

Joseph Weaver

Job Titles:
  • Board Director / Senior Vice President, Administration & Finance at OSU

Kelsey Jenkins

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Associate
  • Executive
  • Executive Adminsitrative Associate

Lance Walker

Job Titles:
  • Human Performance and Nutrition Research Institute

Maria Hernandez

Job Titles:
  • Event Coordinator

Natalie Noles

Job Titles:
  • Business Operations Manager

Rick Davis

Job Titles:
  • Board Director

Russell Hopper

Job Titles:
  • Senior Commercialization Officer

Stephanie Rossander

Job Titles:
  • Fiscal Accounts Manager

Victoria Natalie

Job Titles:
  • Director of Strategic Innovation