People & TBED Organizations
Jeffrey Boyce was named the assistant vice president of the Research Foundation of the State University of New York. Boyce had been the deputy commissioner for manufacturing services at Empire State Development.
Steve Crawford has joined the Brookings Institution; he was with the National Governors Association most recently.
The Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) selected Marc Oettinger as its new technology commercialization manager.
RiverVest Venture Partners, a life science venture capital firm headquartered in St. Louis, announced it will be opening an office at the BioEnterprise facility in Cleveland. The office will be managed by Karen Spilizewski, who is joining RiverVest on a part-time basis as a vice president on Jan. 1.
Steven Zylstra is the new president and CEO of the Arizona Technology Council.