MEET THE TEAM
Welcome to Technology Transfer and Commercialization team
Management Team
ROB GERLACH
Executive Director of Tech Transfer and Commercialization at Wichita State University.
Rob is tasked with protecting the University’s intellectual property, facilitating technology development, and transferring innovation from University to the marketplace, where its true potential can be realized by customers and end-users.
BRENEN WOOD
Administrative Assistant to the office of Tech Transfer and Commercialization.
Brenen provides high-level support to the Executive Director, Gateway to IP and Customer Discovery Programs and maintains accounting and operational data and records.
Gateway to IP Program
The Gateway to IP program provides students an opportunity to gain important intellectual property skills while fulfilling the University’s mission of being an educational, cultural, and economic driver for Kansas and the greater public good - See Flyer
EMMALIE KURTZ
HANNA CHASTAIN
MARIA JIMENEZ
CHRISTELLE NASSIF
Customer Discovery Program
A student lead team that provides internal and external partners , faculty, and community members with valuable problem-solution market analysis. The program provides the students with an applied learning opportunity in the areas of data analytics and customer discovery methods.
JACOB OCONNOR