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Phil Zarko

Phil is a license and patent associate in the Office of Technology Transfer. He joined the office in March 2023 and is responsible for duties related to the negotiation of intellectual prope...

Benjamin (Benjy) Neymotin, Ph.D.

Benjamin (Benjy) Neymotin, Ph.D., is an Assistant Director in UCF’s Office of Technology Transfer (OTT). He is responsible for managing, evaluating, protecting, marketing, and licensing life...

Kathleen Snoeblen

Christopher Serafin

Christopher Serafin joined the Technology Transfer team in October 2019. He works on UCF’s life sciences portfolio as an Intellectual Property and Licensing Specialist. He has 15 years of in...

Laszlo Molnar

Laszlo Molnar currently serves as an Intellectual Property and Licensing Specialist in the Office of Technology Transfer. He works with John Miner and manages the intellectual property relat...

Kristina Gomez, M.R.A.

Kristina Gomez joined UCF’s Office of Technology Transfer in August 2015. She works with assistant director for technology licensing Andrea Adkins to help manage IP developed at UCF, which i...

Ashley Ittersagen

Ashley Ittersagen coordinates with outside counsel, principle investigators, and licensees. She has been with the Office of Technology Transfer since 2010 and is a University of Central Flor...

Christina Kittipatarin, Ph.D.

Christina Kittipatarin, Ph.D. currently manages Business Development for Life Sciences at UCF’s Office of Technology Transfer. Christina specializes in evaluating life sciences technologies ...

Amanda Reno

Amanda is a licensing coordinator in the Office of Technology Transfer. She provides administrative support to the Technology Transfer director, Svetlana Shtrom, and staff and assists with m...

Sandra Jaggernauth, M.S.

Sandra joined the Office of Technology Transfer team in 2009 and currently works as an Intellectual Property and Licensing Specialist for the patent portfolio managed by Raju Nagaiah, Ph.D. ...

Raju Nagaiah, Ph.D.

Raju Nagaiah, Ph.D., is an Assistant Director in UCF’s Office of Technology Transfer (OTT). He is responsible for coordinating with faculty and researchers in evaluating, protecting and lice...

John Miner, M.R.A.

John Miner is an Assistant Director in the Office of Technology Transfer at the University of Central Florida. He has been in OTT since 1999, starting as a student assistant, and has been fo...

Andrea Adkins, M.R.A.

I am an Assistant Director in UCF’s Office of Technology Transfer, supporting researchers, students and staff in the Colleges of Engineering & Computer Sciences, Physics Department, Business...

Svetlana Shtrom, Ph.D., MBA

Svetlana Shtrom, Ph.D., is currently directing the commercial development of technologies at UCF’s Office of Research. Svetlana has extensive experience in business development and technolog...