Interim Associate Vice Provost for Research and Executive Director of CTT: John Swartley	Print Issue
February 5, 2013, Volume 59, No. 20

Provost Vincent Price and Senior Vice Provost for Research Steven J. Fluharty are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. John S. Swartley as Interim Associate Vice Provost for Research and Executive Director of the Center for Technology Transfer (CTT). 

Dr. Swartley has served since 2009 as the deputy director of the CTT, which he first joined in 2007 as senior director of new ventures. In conjunction with the executive director, Dr. Swartley has overseen all of the CTT’s technology commercialization efforts, new venture formation and translational innovation activities based on Penn discoveries and faculty expertise. He also led the establishment and launch of the CTT’s UPstart Company Formation Program, a groundbreaking new model for University venture creation.

Prior to joining Penn, Dr. Swartley was senior vice president and general partner of BCM Technologies, the venture capital subsidiary of Baylor College of Medicine, with responsibility for a portfolio of 22 life science companies. 

He succeeds Dr. Michael J. Cleare, who retired from Penn on January 31, 2013.  A national search for a new Associate Vice Provost for Research and Executive Director of the Center for Technology Transfer will begin in the next few weeks.