Intellectual Property (IP) Committee Members & Executive Committee on Enterprise Development and Licensing Administration (EDLA)
IP Committee Members
Atam Dhawan, Ph.D.
Senior Vice Provost for Research
Holly Stern, Esq.
VP for Legal Affairs and General Counsel
Sanjiv Chokshi, Esq.
Associate General Counsel
Shawn A. Chester, Ph.D.
Associate Vice Provost for Research Collaboration and Partnerships
Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering
Eric D. Hetherington, Ph.D.
Associate Vice Provost, Sponsored Research Administration
Sherie Dodson
Associate Director for Technology Transfer & Intellectual Property
Kathy Naasz, Ed.D.
VP Strategic Partnerships and Entrepreneurship, NJII
Michael Van Ter Sluis
Assistant Vice President, Strategic Partnerships & Entrepreneurship, NJII
Mathias Miller
Business Development Manager, NJII
Kamalesh Sirkar, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, Chemical and Material Engineering, NCE
Tao Zhou, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Physics, CSLA
Cesar Bandera, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship, MTSOM
Matthew Schwartz
Architecture, CoAD
Vivek Kumar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Eon Soo Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Zhi Wei, Ph.D.
Professor, Computer Science
Nitin Parekh, Ph.D.
VP/Executive Director- Strategy & Business at SK Pharmteco
Ben Hanafin
CEO / Co-Founder at AiVacua LLC
Executive Committee on Enterprise Development and Licensing Administration (EDLA)
The EDLA will review the completed Request Form and render a decision with respect to its approval/disapproval. Written notice of the EDLA’s final decision will be provided to the requestor. The EDLA is currently comprised of the following members (or their designees):
Atam P. Dhawan, Ph.D.
Senior Vice Provost for Research
Holly C. Stern, Esq.
Vice President for Legal Affairs and General Counsel
Sanjiv M. Chokshi, Esq.
Associate General Counsel
Shawn A. Chester, Ph.D.
Associate Vice Provost for Research Collaboration and Partnerships
Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering
Eric D. Hetherington, Ph.D.
Associate Vice Provost, Sponsored Research Administration
Sherie Dodson
Associate Director for Technology Transfer & Intellectual Property
Kathy Naasz, Ed.D.
VP Strategic Partnerships and Entrepreneurship, NJII
Michael Van Ter Sluis
Assistant Vice President, Strategic Partnerships & Entrepreneurship, NJII
Mathias Miller
Business Development Manager, NJII
Nitin Parekh, Ph.D.
VP/Executive Director- Strategy & Business at SK Pharmteco
Ben Hanafin
CEO / Co-Founder at AiVacua LLC