Office of Technology Commercialization

Dean Stell, MBA

Associate Director, UNC Office of Technology Commercialization

Dean Stell is the Associate Director of the Office of Technology Commercialization. Dean joined OTC in 2022 after a 20+ year career in the technology commercialization group at Wake Forest University where he licensed all forms of intellectual property in wide variety of technology areas and also managed a significant portion of the groups operations. Dean is a member of the Association of University Technology Managers and the Licensing Executive Society and was a member of the inaugural class of Certified Licensing Professionals. Dean has a BS in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from Wake Forest University.