Kenneth J

Kenneth J. Nisbet

Executive Director, UM Tech Transfer

Ken Nisbet is Executive Director, UM Tech Transfer and has strategic and operational responsibilities for all technology transfer activities at the University of Michigan. UM Technology Transfer encompasses satellite offices at the College of Engineering as well as the central Office of Technology Transfer. \

Previous to his current assignment, Ken was Director of New Business Development for UM Tech Transfer where he was responsible for creating new business start-ups with UM technology.

Prior to coming to the University of Michigan, Ken had over twenty years of experience in the commercial sector within engineering, finance, marketing and management roles at Ford Motor Company, Digital Equipment Corporation and Nortel. Ken was a co-founder and president of Memorybank, Incorporated, a storage systems provider and was a director responsible for business start-ups at Trinova's Corporate Technology Laboratory.

Ken holds a BSME and a MBA, both from the University of Michigan and is active in community activities, including leadership positions within the Ann Arbor IT Zone, New Enterprise Forum, Great Lakes Entrepreneur’s Quest and the Washtenaw Development Corporation.