Caroline Crisafulli

Caroline Crisafulli is Director of Entrepreneurial Education in the Keenan Center for Entrepreneurship.

Caroline is responsible for leading the Keenan Center’s efforts to provide University-wide entrepreneurial education and early commercialization training.  These activities include coaching and preparing for early funding opportunities such as Accelerator Awards, Partnerships for Innovation (PFI), and Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer grants (SBIR/STTR); engaging college leadership, faculty, staff and students to identify needs and create programming; and connecting faculty, staff and students to entrepreneurial resources within and outside of the university.

Caroline brings a particular passion for broadening participation in technology transfer, commercialization, and entrepreneurial pursuits.  Programming includes REACH for Commercialization, an evidence-based program that increases the representation and success of women innovators in academia. 

Prior to joining Ohio State Caroline was a co-founder and Vice President of Operations for Minimally Invasive Devices, Inc, a venture-backed medical device startup. Her experience includes product development from concept to commercialization; quality and regulatory affairs; global sales and marketing; raising angel and venture capital funding; and human resource management.  Her earlier career in healthcare management included healthcare policy, compliance, coding, and reimbursement.

Caroline earned a Bachelor of Science in Genetics and Development from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and is listed on 7 U.S. patents.