For immediate use: Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014
The chief champion of innovation and entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will also direct the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise on an interim basis.
Judith Cone, who came to Carolina in 2009 as special assistant to the chancellor for innovation and entrepreneurship, became Kenan Institute interim director effective Jan. 1.
The position was previously held by Joseph M. DeSimone, Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry at UNC. DeSimone will remain on the UNC faculty, but stepped down as Kenan Institute director as of Dec. 31 to help nurture a new commercialization breakthrough invention in 3D printing.
“Judith is already a senior adviser in the Kenan Institute and participated in the formulation of the strategic plan that the institute adopted. As a result, she is in an excellent position to provide both leadership and continuity for the Kenan Institute,” said Jack Evans, currently serving as interim dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business School. The new dean, when selected, will lead the search for a permanent director of the Kenan Institute.
Before coming to UNC, Cone was vice president of emerging strategies at the Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation. Last month, she received the Town-Gown Award from the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce.
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Kenan-Flagler Business School contact: Allison Adams, (919) 962-7235, aadams@unc.edu
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