Arundeep S. Pradhan MS, RTTP

Managing Director

A member of the Association of University Technology Managers since 1988, Arundeep was elected as the president of the AUTM in 2009 and the AUTM Foundation in 2010. He served on the AUTM Board of Trustees 2006 to 2010. He is currently the Deputy Vice President for Research and Innovation at the University of Wyoming.

In 2012, Arundeep co-founded APIOiX. Prior to APIOiX, he was director of technology transfer programs at the University of Utah, Colorado State University, and Oregon Health & Science University. He has also served as a Vice-President at Foresight Science & Technology. Arundeep works with clients across the globe conducting training and mentoring, developing strategic and business plans, consulting on policy matters, and providing expert witness services for intellectual property and licensing matters. He is on the professional development faculty at AUTM and is an invited speaker on topics of licensing, intellectual property management, negotiations, innovation assessment, technology transfer operations, entrepreneurship, and startups at national and international meetings.

Arundeep is passionate about engaging with innovators and entrepreneurs to learn about their research and work with them to determine its commercial viability, develop business plans, and commercialization strategies. Working with clients across the world, Arundeep values the many different needs within an innovation ecosystem and the differing nature of innovation ecosystems based on available resources. Whether it’s through licensing, collaborations, or joint ventures and the different roles that academic institutions can undertake.

He is experienced in technology commercialization in the fields of agriculture, chemicals, software and electronics. Arundeep has also worked extensively with city, state and federal economic development agencies to promote technology commercialization and regional economic growth. Arundeep is an expert in negotiations, strategy, operations and management as well as forging multi-partner, multi-national alliances.

Arundeep received his B. Pharm (Hons.) from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science and Masters from the University of Utah. He started working at the University of Utah's technology transfer office in 1987 and subsequently established the technology transfer office at Colorado State University in 1999. In 2004, he moved to Portland, Oregon where he served as Associate Vice-President for Technology Transfer and Business Development at Oregon Health & Science University. 

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