Ronald Kudla

Executive Director

Ronald Kudla recently served as the Executive Director of the Office of Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer and New Ventures at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. Prior to that, he served as the Director of Academic Liaison for North America at GSK. Prior roles include the Director of Technology Transfer at the Universities of Florida, Director of Patents and Licensing at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) in Madison Wisconsin.

Dr. Kudla has a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics with a minor in Biopharmaceutics from the University of North Carolina; an MBA in Pharmaceutical Marketing from Fairleigh Dickenson University, a MS degree in Pharmaceutics from the University of Michigan and a B.S. in Pharmacy from Ferris State University in Big Rapids Michigan. He is holds the designation as a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) from the Licensing Executive Society (LES).