Title: Director, Commercialization Practice
Category: Senior Professional
Education: B.A. Business Administration, M.S. Technology Commercialization
Heath Naquin currently acts as Program Manager for Technology Transfer and Commercialization for the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. Heath has worked on international commercialization initiatives in countries such as Chile, Korea, Mexico, Portugal, Egypt, Armenia, Malaysia and India. He regularly works with international start ups to develop strategic plans for operational success and on-shoring across the globe. As a part of his international commercialization activities, he has successfully orchestrated early stage international technology licensing agreements with Fortune 500 companies such as Siemens, Costco and Glaxo-Smith-Kline.
Mr. Naquin regularly serves as a commercial reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Nevada Institute for Renewable Energy Commercialization (NIREC) guiding investment decisions for high risk/high reward commercialization proposals underneath the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Mr. Naquin is a frequent international speaker at industry and government sponsored events on the topics of Green Technology, Innovation and Commercialization. His expertise in Project Management, Green IT, Clean Energy, Innovation and International Commercialization has been featured in such publications as Forbes, the Austin Business Journal, the Microsoft Network and PMI’s Project Management Magazine. His work on international investment in innovation networks was recently published in the Special Global Edition of the International Journal for Technology Forecasting and Social Change.
Mr. Naquin received his M.S. in Technology Commercialization from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, and his B.B.A. in Business Administration at St. Edwards University. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and acts as an active member of the Project Management Institute (PMI), the Licensing Executive Society (LES) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).