VentureStudio Staff

Stephen joined CTTC in May 2024 and is responsible for leading the New Ventures team in their efforts to advance entrepreneurship and new venture creation and support programs across the Vanderbilt campus, in the greater Nashville area, and throughout Tennessee. He works closely with the CTTC unit directors of Licensing and Industry Collaborations and their teams, as well as key university leaders, administrators, and faculty, to identify promising technologies, assess market potential, secure IP, build management teams, and attract funding to accelerate commercialization.

Prior to joining CTTC, Stephen led the University of Colorado/Boulder’s venture development team, where he helped manage a pipeline of over 130 high potential innovations through a 3-stage I-Corps® curriculum, corporate formation, launch, and venture funding. With 25 startups launched in 2022 alone, over $3B in venture funding was secured by startups commercializing university technology from 2018-2023. He also founded Destination Startup®, a collaboration of 15 research universities and national laboratories to showcase cutting edge innovations in the Rocky Mountain/Desert Southwest region; over $700M in venture, angel and grant funding raised through Q2 2024. Stephen received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Denver, and a Master’s of Public Administration from the University of Colorado Denver.

Cameron joined the CTTC in September 2022, working with the New Ventures team to assist faculty and administration in commercializing Vanderbilt's IP, with an emphasis on guiding post-launch startup activity and investor relations. Previously, he was Co-Founder, President, and COO of X Co, an independent accelerator investing and training early-stage software companies. Before venture, he was an educator and Director of Marketing at Sage Ridge School and the Founder and Managing Director for Nevada Shakespeare Company. Cameron holds a Master’s in Theatre Production from Southern Oregon University and a B.A. in English from Washington State University, along with a Venture Capital certification from Berkeley Law.

Cameron joined the CTTC New Venture Development team in March 2025, transitioning from her prior role at Vanderbilt’s Wond’ry Innovation Center, where she collaborated with the Space Foundation and multiple universities to establish a national space accelerator program and supported more than 100 diverse startups with strategic guidance through critical stages of business development. Prior to her time at Vanderbilt, she collaborated with the Mayo Clinic to conceptualize an innovative intracranial pressure monitoring device. Cameron has a bachelors degree in biomedical engineering from George Tech, with specializations in premedical studies and material sciences, and she is a certified NSF I-Corps regional program instructor and mentor for the SelectUSA Women in Tech mentorship program.