Cindy Chepanoske

Director of Technology Licensing

Bio

Cindy has supported the Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation (CTTEC) at Carnegie Mellon University since 2012.  While at CTTEC, she’s had various responsibilities related to licensing, patent management activities and new enterprise creation for several departments.  She's currently the Director of Technology Licensing and broadly supports the licensing efforts and dissemination of technology developed at Carnegie Mellon, leading an agile team of licensing managers who develop and maintain Carnegie Mellon’s vast and diverse IP portfolio.  Cindy also helps connect the faculty, staff and students that are commercializing early stage technologies from their research at CMU with Carnegie Mellon’s startup community partners, Pittsburgh’s economic development partners and the investment community, to enrich Carnegie Mellon’s efforts toward entrepreneurship.

Prior to coming to Carnegie Mellon, Cindy was the Program Manager and Director of Informatics Services at Ceiba Solutions (acquired by Perkin Elmer) in support of their pharma customers' informatic software enterprise needs, including business development and strategy.  Cindy received her B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. from the University of Utah in chemistry, specializing in analytical method development.

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