Seattle high-tech leader, Linden Rhoads selected to head University of Washington TechTransfer

A veteran executive of Seattle’s high-tech community has been named to lead UW TechTransfer http://depts.washington.edu/techtran/ , the unit that commercializes the results of University of Washington research.

Linden Rhoads, who has held senior management positions in Seattle-area companies for 20 years, becomes UW’s vice provost for technology transfer Aug. 14.

Established in 1982, UW TechTransfer has helped create more than 235 companies, many of them in Washington, and manages more than 2,000 issued and pending patents around the world. In fiscal year 2007 the intellectual property licensed to industry through UW TechTransfer generated $38 million for the university.

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