Tuesday, May 3
6 - 7pm MT

Women in Leadership: Driving Transformation Through Innovation

Kimberly Muller, Esq.

Executive Director, CU Innovations
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

About Kimberly Muller, Esq.

COVID-19 has changed society in many ways. In her keynote address, Muller will explore the unique role that women in leadership and innovation have as we rebuild from the pandemic.

Muller’s business development responsibilities include investing, company creation, innovation management, forming key strategic industry partnerships, and licensing.  Large-scale industry collaborations have been established in areas such as AI and drug development.  She also manages several funds, including an innovation grant fund, and a $50 million venture fund.

Muller joined the University of Colorado from Yale University, where she was formerly the Deputy Director of the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (YEI) and managed New Ventures in the Office of Cooperative Research. During her tenure, Yale’s Office of Cooperative Research started more than 70 new ventures that have raised over $5 billion in investor capital.

Prior to that, Kimberly started and sold companies in the biotech, tech and clean energy fields, such as Curagen Corporation (acquired by Celldex Therapeutics), 454 Life Science (acquired by Roche) and Arbor Fuel, a biofuel company that utilized recombinant microorganisms for the production of ethanol and butanol. Muller began her career in New York as a patent attorney for Chadbourne and Parke, LLP.