Kimberly Gramm

Pitch Competition Judge

Kimberly Gramm is the Associate Vice President Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Texas Tech University. She is responsible for economic engagement and startup creation, coordinating an effective dynamic and nimble team focused on innovation and knowledge transfer, increased commercialization activities, and developing a University entrepreneurship environment where ideas thrive. She works with leadership to strategically attract industry and technology clients from around the world to collaborate with the university system in Texas. She has 13+ years of early-stage technology venture development with over 279 startups created under her management in university environments, launched two accelerators and a “new” $10M seed fund to support ag-tech startups. Her passion is to develop, implement, and find resources to support Innovation and Entrepreneurship programming for students, faculty, and entrepreneurs.