Lecturer in Entrepreneurship

Office: Hylan Bldg. room 609
Phone: (585) 273-3250
Email: jack.fraser@simon.rochester.edu

Dr. Fraser is deputy director of technology transfer for the College of Arts and Sciences and Engineering. He is responsible for commercializing the results of research by licensing and the formation of start-ups. He joined the University in 2000 from the Xerox Corporation, where he had directed patent management within the corporate intellectual property organization.

Prior to his role in corporate patent management, he held management positions in research, engineering, and technology strategy within Xerox. He led a number of start-up teams from product planning and technology selection to the hand-off of copier designs for manufacture in Japan. He was involved in business development, including the formation of the DUI (DuPont-Xerox Imaging) joint venture, a collaboration with Philips on image storage; a Xerox-Hewlett Packard-Novell network printing consortium; and special media applications for ink-jet printing. He has been awarded 14 patents from inventions at Xerox.

He also serves as adjunct professor with the Entrepreneurship faculty at the Simon School, and teaches courses in technology transfer and commercialization.

A.B., Physics,

Hamilton College

Ph.D., Physics,

Yale University

P.M.D.,

Harvard Business School