About
The Technology Transfer Office (TTO) works to translate MSU research to practice, including commercialization of MSU innovations; facilitates research collaborations especially with industry, including sponsored research; and provides campus-wide support on intellectual property matters, including management of NDAs and MTAs.
Staff
Tricia Cook
Fiscal Manager
Tricia provides fiscal oversight to the Technology Transfer Office. She has over 25 years of experience working with accounting and budgeting in higher education and has a B.S. in Business Accounting from Montana State University.
Madeleine Doak
Intellectual Property Manager
Madeleine monitors patent, trademark, and annuity deadlines, and works with inventors, patent counsel, and licensees to coordinate legal documentation for patent and trademark applications. She also manages the intellectual property database and maintains the TTO website and metrics. She holds a B.S. from Millikin University.
Magali Dieny Eaton
Associate Director
Magali is passionate about fostering faculty and student success in technology transfer and building startup ecosystems through inclusive innovation. She brings years teaching innovation, partnership building, and intellectual property law practice to the MSU tech transfer team. Magali founded and helped launch several long-lived organizations and has a strong focus on broadening participation in innovation and entrepreneurship. Magali holds law degrees from Universite Jean Moulin and Universite de Strasbourg in France, and an LLM in intellectual property law from the University of Washington where she attended thanks to a Fulbright scholarship.
Daniel Juliano
Director
Daniel joined MSU in 2016, following 16 years of technology development experience in industry. He first worked in semiconductor capital equipment, developing processes and equipment to deposit ultrathin conformal layers of metal on silicon wafers. His most recent industry role was in senior management at a VC-funded startup company that grew to 500+ employees, where his responsibilities included creating and managing the corporate intellectual property program. Daniel has been granted 24 US patents, and has BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Daniel is principal investigator of MSU's NSF ART (Accelerating Research Translation) program.
Jessica Murdock
Program Manager
Jessica is the Program Manager for MSU's NSF ART (Accelerating Research Translation) award, and coordinates Non-Disclosure and Material Transfer Agreements for the Technology Transfer Office. She has been at MSU since 2006 and has served in various roles on campus. She holds a M.Ed. in adult education from Montana State University and a B.S. in animal science from the University of Idaho.
Travis Russell
Training & Development Coordinator
Travis has a background in early-stage startups and leadership. His curiosity and passion for science, innovation, and leadership over the past decade have led him to work with a large variety of early-stage startup ventures, in organizations that span from pharmaceutical/biomedical to software app development and other industries in between. Travis holds a M.S. in Innovation and Management and a B.S. in Business and Economics from Montana State University.
Nick Zelver
Senior Technology Manager
Nick works with faculty to help develop intellectual property and facilitates agreements with industry for MSU to conduct research, perform testing and to license university technology. He has worked in technology transfer for over twenty years in positions that include being a liaison to industry for a university engineering research center, facilitating licensing of technology from federal laboratories, and licensing university intellectual property. He holds a B.A. in biology and B.S. in engineering from Humboldt State University and a M.S. in engineering from Rice University.