Lori Dars

Lori Dars is the Director of the NSF-Funded Innovation Corps (I-Corps) site at Rutgers, which provides customer discovery training, mentoring and funding to teams (Students, Faculty/Staff or Alum) looking to commercialize their innovations. She supports numerous entrepreneurship programs throughout the university, working with students, faculty, staff, the local community and state organizations and is the Founder and Chair of the Rutgers Entrepreneurship Coalition. Lori is an active member of the New Jersey Big Data Alliance, a partnership of 16 higher education institutions to advance data-driven innovation and education in New Jersey