Christine Wildes has accepted the position of Associate Director, Innovation Training for UK Innovate. Her focus will be leading innovation and entrepreneurial training programs and initiatives, including coordinating current programs and developing new translational research training programs through partnership and extramurally funded mechanisms.

“We are thrilled to add a talent like Christine to our team, and she is the perfect leader in helping us build UK Innovate’s innovation training programs to increase our research impact culture," said Ian McClure, Associate Vice President for Research, Innovation and Economic Impact, and Executive Director, UK Innovate. "Christine has dedicated her career to education and training, with a Ph.D. in training performance, and entrepreneurship and commercialization, the areas in which she has spent much of her career training promising innovators and other individuals. Christine has hit the ground running, diving deep into frameworks and concepts that will help develop the careers of our high-potential faculty researchers. I am very excited to work with her to help build a strong research impact culture at UK.”

She is Adjunct Faculty, Gatton College of Business and Economics and was previously Project Manager, Von Allmen Center for Entrepreneurship. Prior to UK, Christine was Vice President of Operations, Moon Eyed Imagineering Company, Assistant State Director, Kentucky Innovation Network, Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation and Director of Admissions at Globe University and Spencerian College.

She has a B.S. in early childhood education/psychology and an M.E. in education management/human resources from the University of Wisconsin Stout, an MBA from Minnesota School of Business, and a Ph.D. in education'/training and performance improvement from Capella University.

"I have enjoyed working with the Gatton College and Von Allmen Center for Entrepreneurship these last three years. I am excited to continue developing entrepreneurship under the leadership of Ian McClure and the highly motivated UK Innovate team. I will apply my education, innovation and entrepreneurship in creating dynamic training programs that foster discovery, influence our research impact and add to the University of Kentucky," said Wildes

Allison Spurrier, Executive Administrative Assistant, UK Innovate, recently completed the 2021 Project Management Professional Learning Series provided by UK's Gatton College of Business and Economics.

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This position will assist in assessing inventions, conducting market analysis and developing IP strategies.