Ohio State University is hoping a newly hired vice president can turn in a repeat performance in the school’s efforts to license and commercialize technology.
The school on Tuesday announced the hire of Brian Cummings as vice president for technology commercialization. He steps into the job June 1 pending trustee approval and arrives from the University of Utah, where he worked as executive director of its Technology Commercialization Office.
Cummings will make an annual salary of $365,000 in the post. President Gordon Gee had hinted earlier this year in an interview with Columbus Business First that the university was nearing “another high-profile hire who will be expensive.” Under Gee’s watch, the expense for top executives has nearly doubled to $13.7 million as the school seeks to be the state’s main economic driver and gain national prominence.
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