Location Madison, Wisconsin, United States Regions Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male
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Leigh Cagan is Chief Technology Commercialization Officer for the Wisconsin Alumni Research foundation (WARF). Mr. Cagan has extensive entrepreneurial and industry experience including work at IT industry icons Hewlett-Packard and IBM. He currently oversees the WARF licensing team and is responsible for maximizing the economic opportunities for
WARF's technology portfolio. Prior to joining WARF, Mr. Cagan served as Director of Intellectual Property Licensing for Hewlett-Packard at the company's headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Working within the company's corporate legal group, he represented a broad range of intellectual property in technology transfer initiatives, from early-stage innovations to established products.
Mr. Cagan previously served as manager of the business development group at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif. His responsibilities there included external licensing, university collaborations, strategic partnerships, and related efforts to monetize the intellectual property assets and expertise of IBM Research Division.
Mr. Cagan also held management roles with Scientific Computing Associates and Multiflow Computer, both ventures that commercialized information technology associated with the Yale University Department of Computer Science.
Mr. Cagan holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Davis and an MBA from the Yale University School of Management.
