Stephen Fleming, the general manager of Georgia Tech’s lauded startup incubator, is leaving that post and another he holds as a top liaison between the research university and the business community.
Fleming, general manager of the Advanced Technology Development Center and vice president of the Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2), will leave the institution by the end of the year, according to a news release.
“EI2 has experienced remarkable success across all of its programs in recent years under Stephen’s leadership,” Steve Cross, Tech’s executive vice president for research, said in a statement.
Fleming, a Georgia Tech alumnus, venture capitalist and veteran of AT&T’s Bell Laboratories, has served as one of Georgia Tech’s top mentors to startups and as the executive connecting Tech to companies to help them become more competitive and to advance their technology.
On his blog, Fleming said a national search for his replacement is pending. He wrote that he will remain a loyal alumnus and donor to the Institute.
Numerous companies have announced plans to relocate operations near Georgia Tech’s campus in recent years, including NCR and Worldpay US. Fleming wrote that executive leadership “believes it is time to recruit new leadership that is better suited to the next phase of EI2’s growth.”
“The Tech Square innovation neighborhood will continue to be a national model of economic development, and EI2′s and ATDC’s programs will continue to be at the center of that,” Fleming wrote. “I look forward to celebrating their continued success.”
