Kaibry Staggs
Kaibry is from Tennessee and moved to Gainesville in the summer of 2024. As Social Media Producer at UF Innovate, Kaibry’s primary role involves overseeing content creation and regularly analyzing performance metrics to refine social strategies. Her responsibilities also include maintaining engaging channel appearances and ensuring timely responses to social media interactions. Kaibry has experience […]
Sooyoung Ryu
Sooyoung serves as a social media producer supporting UF Innovate | Ventures and Pathways and other UF Innovate content. Before joining the UF Innovate team in 2024, she worked in marketing, advertising and public relations and managed digital communication and marketing strategies for various organizations. Sooyoung earned her B.A. in Communication and Media from Ewha […]
Katie Harrison
Katie joined UF Innovate | Tech Licensing in January of 2025 as a licensing associate. She currently assists the Tech Licensing team with the review of invention disclosures, facilitation of patent prosecution and licensing agreements, invention technology portfolio management, and database information management. Katie’s background prior to joining UF Innovate | Tech Licensing includes several […]
Autumn Arranz
Autumn Arranz joined UF Innovate in March of 2019 as a Licensing Associate working with Richard Croley in the fields of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and software. They review invention disclosures to determine patentability or commercial potential by meeting with innovators to determine if a patent, trademark or copyright should be filed She manages all […]
Noel Burmeister
Noel works with Licensing Officer Anita Rao, assisting in portfolio management for the life science area. She and Anita manage invention disclosures, patent prosecution, MTAs, CDAs, research agreements and licensing agreements for UF innovators in the life sciences. Many of her innovators are those in the UF Departments of Medicine and Pharmacy. Before joining Tech Licensing in 2001, […]
Melanie Campos
Mel assists with new disclosure triage, coordination of patentability review and timeliness of filing, and management of patent applications from filing through expiration. She assists with marketing IP to identify commercial partners, completion of CDAs/NDAs, and throughout the negotiation process to execution of licenses. She liaises with innovators, patent attorneys, and licensees on patent strategy […]
Rick Croley
Sara Dagen
Sara handles marketing and communications for all of the entities under UF Innovate. On any given day, she works with the licensing teams to showcase new technologies by University of Florida researchers, mines news about our startups or innovators to share on social media, edits website content or finds a solution for one more glitch, […]
Andrea Dautant
Andrea serves as a marketing and communications manager, supporting all UF Innovate entities. In her role, Andrea is the tech editor for UF Innovate | Tech Licensing, working closely with the licensing teams and interns to write and edit non-confidential summaries for technologies and conduct prior searches. In addition, she also specializes in social media, […]
Carla Dolder
