Michael Ehrlich, PhD, had an international Wall Street career before he started a small technology company that he sold in 2007. At the NJIT Martin Tuchman School of Management, Ehrlich is the founding director of the New Jersey Innovation Acceleration Center. He’s been active with the NSF I-Corps program since early 2012 as a mentor, principal investigator, I-Corps Site lead, National Innovation Network member, and as the NJIT faculty lead and part of the I-Corps NE Hub leadership team. NJIT won an NSF Accelerating Research Translation grant ($6.7MM 2024 Ehrlich Co-PI) and established the NJIT Center for Translational Research. Ehrlich received his doctorate from Princeton University and bachelor’s degree from Yale University.