Kannan Grant
Kannan
Grant serves as director of UAHuntsville’s Small Business Development
Center/Procurement Technical Assistance Center (March 2008), director of
the Office of Technology Commercialization (August 2007) and executive director
of ICE Lab (2008). He works in a variety of ways to enable inventors and
businesspeople to take UAHuntsville technologies from conception to the
marketplace. He works with UAHuntsville start-ups that are competing in
Alabama Launchpad. He began the Chargers Entrepreneurs Forum, which offers
webinars and seminars of interest to entrepreneurs on topics ranging from
intellectual property protection to business plan writing. Kannan also
speaks to classes and other groups on entrepreneurship and intellectual
property.
 Mr. Grant has more than fifteen years of
experience in technology transfer. Prior to joining UAHuntsville, Mr. Grant
served as the CEO of FuturaGene Inc., and as an executive board member for FuturaGene
Plc. During his tenure at FuturaGene, Mr. Grant was instrumental in
establishing the company’s first subsidiary in Beijing, China. He was also
responsible for spearheading FuturaGene’s foray in the biofuel arena.
Prior to FuturaGene Inc., he served as associate vice chancellor for the
Office of Technology Development at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln,
where he was instrumental in negotiating and signing two of the largest
license agreements with significant research components to them in the
school’s history.
Mr. Grant earned his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at the
University of North Dakota and an MBA from Texas A&M University.
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