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In 2006, he became President of AUTM, the global, academic professional technology transfer association, and served a two-year term as VP Membership (2001–2003). He is a Founding Board Director of TalTech Alliance, the technology association of the Tallahassee region, and its Executive Committee. He is also a Founding Board member of the Florida Research Consortium and its Executive Committee; he was appointed by the governor to increase university/company interactions to better the Florida economy. Through the Johns Hopkins University technology transfer program, he has helped scientists and engineers create business plans for new start-up companies. In 2006, he joined the Board of BioFlorida, the statewide biotechnology trade association. Mr. Fraser holds a Master’s Degree in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.
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John A. Fraser has been the Executive Director of the Office of IP Development and Commercialization at Florida State University, Tallahassee, since 1996. Previously, he was Director of the University/Industry Liaison Office at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. Mr. Fraser has substantial corporate and university experience. He has also held the following positions: Executive Vice President and co-founder of UTC, Inc., a venture-capital-backed, North Carolina-based university licensing/technology transfer firm; President and CEO of UTI, a University of Calgary-based for-profit technology transfer company; Vice President of TDC, Inc., a Toronto and Vancouver-based venture capital firm; and President of Burnside Development, a technology commercialization consulting firm. He has co-founded three companies and assisted in the launching of another 12 technology-based firms.
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