Our Team

Jennifer Murphy
Director
jennifer@uconn.edu

Rory McGloin
Assistant Director of Communication and Program Development

Mary Keenan
Office Manager
mary.keenan@uconn.edu

Michelle Cote
Lead Instructor
Director of Launc[H]artford

Chereace Marcellin
Program Specialist
chereace.marcellin@uconn.edu

Maureen Cappetto
Awards & Database Coordinator
maureen.cappetto@uconn.edu

Timothy Folta
Academic Director
John and Bette Wolff Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship
Management Professor

Caroline Dealy
Faculty Lead, NSF I-Corps Program
Professor, School of Medicine

Scott Kozak
Instructor, Biomedical Entrepreneurship
EIR
scott.kozak@uconn.edu

Mike Kalen
Instructor, InsurTech Venturing
michael.kalen@uconn.edu

Alice Nichols
Instructor, Accelerate UConn
Startup Advisor

John Hoffert
Instructor, Accelerate UConn
Startup Advisor

Leland Holcomb
Instructor, Traction & InsurTech Experiential Learning
EIR

Leila Daneshmandi
EIR, Ignite Hartford
Graduate Assistants

Raghav Shekar
MBA
Class of 2021

Utkarsh Gupta
MBA
Class of 2021
Student Ambassadors

Alex Grant
English
Class of 2022

Michaela Hartl
Business Administration
Class of 2021

Van Hoang
Marketing
Class of 2021

Liza Mathew
Business Administration
Class of 2021

Chloe Son
Finance
Class of 2021

Noah Sobel-Pressman
Business Management
Class of 2021