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/ July 21, 2023

Maha Krishnamurthy, Ph.D., MBA

Dr. Maha Krishnamurthy is the President of the University of Tennessee Research Foundation. She oversees all aspects of the UT Research Foundation, including both technology transfer offices (the Multi-Campus Office in Knoxville and the Health Science Center Office in Memphis) and their staff. These offices are responsible for commercializing UT’s innovations, promoting an entrepreneurial culture, and assisting UT in growing its research. Maha also manages UTRF’s $5M Accelerate Venture Fund and oversees UTRF’s subsidiary companies that are established to support the research and economic development mission of the University of Tennessee.

Before joining UTRF in 2011, Maha served as an intellectual property commercialization consultant for Fuentek, LLC, and UT-Battelle and as a physics research associate and lecturer at UT Knoxville. Maha holds a bachelor’s degree from Saint Xavier College in India, a master’s in business administration from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a Ph.D. in physics from Colorado State University.

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