Kenneth Nisbet
Title: Executive Director
Phone: (734) 763-0614
Email: knisbet@umich.edu
Assistant: Carmen Atkins
Assistant Phone: (734) 764-8202
Ken Nisbet is Executive Director, U-M Tech Transfer and has strategic and operational responsibilities for all technology transfer activities at the University of Michigan. U-M Technology Transfer encompasses the central Office of Technology Transfer and a satellite location at the College of Engineering. Under his leadership, the University of Michigan has achieved substantial growth in tech transfer performance and established a reputation as one of the leading tech transfer offices in the nation.
From 1996 to 2001, Ken was Director of New Business Development within U-M Tech Transfer where he was responsible for creating new business start-ups with UM technology.
Prior to coming to the University of Michigan, Ken had over twenty years of experience in the commercial sector within engineering, finance, marketing and management roles at Ford Motor Company, Digital Equipment Corporation and Nortel. Ken also was a co-founder and president of Memorybank, Incorporated, a storage systems provider and was a director responsible for business start-ups at Trinova's Corporate Technology Laboratory in Ann Arbor.
Ken holds a BSME and a MBA, both from the University of Michigan and is active in community activities, including leadership positions within the Ann Arbor IT Zone, Ann Arbor SPARK, New Enterprise Forum, Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest, Washtenaw Development Corporation and Wireless Washtenaw.
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