Brooke Beier has been promoted to vice-president of Purdue's office of technology commercialization, having started there as a project manager in 2013.
Purdue Research Foundation (PRF), the tech transfer affiliate of Purdue University, has hired Brooke Beier (pictured) as vice-president of its office of technology commercialization (OTC).
Beier will take charge of OTC’s efforts to commercialise Purdue technologies and protect intellectual property. She started with OTC as a project manager in 2013, climbing through the ranks to become executive director in April last year.
PRF believes Beier has played an important role in making OTC more business-friendly as the office has generated record numbers of licences, spinouts and patents.
Over the past five years, OTC has set up more than 650 agreements covering more than 1,000 technologies, with more than 120 of the agreements executed with spinouts.
Beier is a triple-alumna of Purdue having received a BSc, MSc and PhD from the university’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.
Before joining OTC, Beier had worked as a development engineer for the…