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UTSA Technology Entrepreneurship Center Names Inaugural Board
 The Center for Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship (CITE), a joint venture of The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Business and the College of Engineering, has named its inaugural advisory board members.
The board is chaired by Paul Castella, MBA ’05, managing general partner, Incyte Ventures. Members are John Bray, lawyer, Cox Smith; Lawrence Crynes, senior process engineer, Marathon Oil Company; John Kirk, owner, the JFK Firm LLC; Dean McCall, CEO and co-founder, Ideagin; Whitney Solcher Miller, managing director, San Antonio Capital Management LLC; William Tolhurst, BS ’85, managing director, Quantimum LLC; and Alan Weinkrantz, president, Alan Weinkrantz & Company.
The board is charged with building the profile of CITE, integrating CITE with regional technology entrepreneurship resources and participating in the growth and funding of the center to enable long-term success. Dr. Lynda de la Viña, Dean of the College of Business, and Dr. C. Mauli Agrawal, Dean of the College of Engineering, are CITE founders and serve as ex officio voting members of the board.
The center sponsors yearly technology entrepreneurship boot camps, student technology business plan competitions and hosts an incubator for new ventures. CITE focuses on fostering the growth of entrepreneurs and new technology-based ventures through a process of education, experiences, resources and support.
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