Contact
Len Heller / (859) 218-6512
Commercialization & Economic Development
Vice President
A256 ASTeCC Building
Kentucky Technology Inc., founded in 1988, is a for-profit corporation wholly owned by the University of Kentucky Research Foundation (UKRF). Len Heller, UK Vice President for Commercialization & Economic Development, is the CEO and President of KTI. Heller and the KTI Board of Directors are charged with generating revenue from ASTeCC/AgTeCC campus incubator leases, technology licenses, and equity investments, and re-investing in the commercial development of university-based technologies and technology-based businesses. Heller also directs investment in several fund of funds/FoF and participates in a regional angel network. UKCED helped develop the Bluegrass Angels and Bluegrass Angel Venture Fund.
KTI Board of Directors
Henry Jackson, Chair, Jackson Plastics Inc.
Len Heller, President & CEO, UKCED Vice President
Jack Supplee, Secretary, UKRF Associate Director
Nancy Cox, UK College of Agriculture
John Cirigliano, Clearbrook Companies/CLB Associates
Richard Furst, UK Gatton College Business & Economics
Jim LeMaster, Kentucky Association of Manufacturers
Gene Strong, McCarty-Strong Global LLC
Mark Stuhlreyer, Blue Diamond Industries
Jim Tracy, UK Research Vice President
Bruce Walcott, UK College of Engineering
Anthony Wright, Mayor's Office of Economic Development
Taunya Phillips, KTI CFO, UKCED Asst VP