Errol Arkilic is the Chief Innovation OƯicer of UC Irvine, and Executive Director of Beall Applied Innovation. At UC Irvine, he leads campus-wide commercialization activities, helping researchers turn knowledge into products and services that impact society. Anationally recognized leader in technology transfer and entrepreneurship, he has played leading roles in entrepreneurial achievement in both the private and public sectors. Prior to UC Irvine, he was founder and CEO of M34 Capital, a private investment company that focuses on seed and early-stage projects being spun out of academic research labs. Previously, he was the founding and lead program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps program (I-Corps), heading the eƯort from its inception in 2011 to 2013, and later becoming a senior advisor for the program. Prior to that, he was the lead software and services Program Director for the NSF Small Business Innovation
Research (SBIR) program. Before his government service, Errol was founder and CEO of StrataGent Lifesciences (Acquired by Corium International: CORI) and Manager of Product Engineering at Redwood Microsystems. He has a Ph.D. in Aero/Astro Engineering from MIT.