The coaching program is led by Angelique Adams, chief executive officer of Angelique Adams Media Solutions. Prior to her career as a leadership coach and media entrepreneur, Adams had a 20-year career in metals and mining. 

“Having spent years leading teams of scientists and engineers, I know the challenges of communicating research to business audiences very well,” Adams said. “Over the years, I developed strategies to overcome the challenges that worked well for my teams, and I was excited to share what I’ve learned.”

At an event hosted by the ORNL Technology Transfer Office on July 10, the researchers pitched their technologies to laboratory staff and leaders, as well as East Tennessee entrepreneurial ecosystem leaders such as Jim Biggs, executive director of the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center; Rob Coleman, director of entrepreneurship and new ventures at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Kusum Rathore, executive director and vice president of the multi-campus office at the University of Tennessee Research Foundation; and Lilly Tench, director of the Spark Innovation Center at the University of Tennessee Research Park.

“The ability to present advanced research and technology in a way that can be understood by a general audience and applied to business opportunities is a crucial part of bringing important research out of the lab and into the world,” Tench said.

The technologies and their inventors include:

Islam and Gregorich will participate in cohort 19 of the OTT Energy I-Corps program in September.

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