Office of Technology Commercialization

Robert L. Robb, Associate Vice President for Technology Commercialization

Robert L. Robb is the Associate Vice President for Technology Commercialization at UT Dallas, Director of Venture Development for The Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at UTD (IIE) and a Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship in the School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas.  Mr. Robb heads the new Office of Technology Commercialization and leads the “virtual incubation” initiative at UTD and is an advisor to several early stage enterprises.  Mr. Robb’s perspective of new venture development is that of entrepreneur, venture investor and institutional venture developer with over 27 years experience in creating, managing and advising emerging enterprises.  He has funded, founded, nurtured and/or managed 24 early stage companies and served as CEO of 7 emerging enterprises.  Seven of the 24 companies Mr. Robb assisted or managed have established a combined market capitalization in excess of $1.3 Billion with several of these enterprises being acquired by larger firms.  He has coached entrepreneurs and advised early stage companies in all facets of creating and managing new ventures and has raised more than $80 million for start-up and early stage companies.  

Mr. Robb’s experience includes 6 years as a venture investor with two, seed-stage, venture capital firms, including a public venture fund, which he founded.  Also, he served as Director of the Technology Management Office at the University of Michigan with responsibility to reorganize and rebrand the TMO and proactively commercialize Michigan’s innovations through the creation of new ventures.   Additionally, Mr. Robb served as Executive Director of Venture Development for  BCM Technologies, Inc., the technology commercialization arm of Baylor College of Medicine.

He currently serves as an advisor or consultant to several early stage companies, including, Aqua-Synergy, Catawater Enterprises, BioSig ID, MicroTransponder, Solarno, Pungo, Inc., and North Texas Enterprise Center, a business accelerator.

Mr. Robb received a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Biology and a Master of Science Degree in Parasitology/Microbiology from the University of Utah.

Rebecca (Becky) Stoughton, Assistant Director of Technology Commercialization

Ms. Stoughton holds an MBA from UT-Dallas with concentrations in Finance and Entrepreneurship, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. Recent projects in which she has played a key role have included developing a business plan for an internet startup in the higher education industry, a marketing plan for a trucking security startup, an analysis of the TXU private equity buyout, and a pricing model for a real-time rich media analytics tool.   She has experience in supply chain management, business development and business intelligence in the telecommunications industry, as well as engineering management and systems engineering in the defense industry.  She has also founded or been CEO of several internet and publishing businesses. Ms. Stoughton is a member of the Association of University Technology Managers, and currently serves on the board of Texchange, a Texas-based organization for technology entrepreneurs.

 

 

Brent Schultze, Licensing and Technology Commercialization Manager

Mr. Schultze graduated cum laude with a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University and in May, 2008, he received his MBA with a concentration in Entrepreneurship from UT-Dallas.  He was project manager for a million-dollar process development program at a large semiconductor company and has experience with product development, prototyping, and manufacturing processes.  Recent projects include the development of a marketing plan for a trucking security startup and a market analysis of a cutting-edge photonics technology.