Brian Wright, Ph.D., RTTP, CLP serves as Executive Director of MSU Technologies (MSUT), a position he assumed in November 2025. In this role, he leads MSUT’s mission to protect, manage, market, and license technologies derived from MSU’s world-class research while promoting regional economic development and cultivating entrepreneurial opportunities for faculty and students.
Dr. Wright brings more than 20 years of distinguished experience in technology transfer, innovation advancement, and commercialization to his leadership of MSUT. He previously served as Associate Director at MSUT for nearly three years, where he strategically managed intellectual property, collaborated with faculty and students, and built strong relationships that advanced MSU’s research commercialization mission.
Prior to joining MSU, Dr. Wright built a distinguished career at Auburn University’s Innovation Advancement & Commercialization office, where he served as Director of Commercialization. In this capacity, he guided teams, developed successful programs for technology transfer and commercialization, and fostered strong campus-wide engagement with faculty and inventors. He helped advance Auburn’s wide range of licensable technologies, including antimicrobial chemistry, probiotics, crop production, canine-based detection, and pathogen sensors. His work was marked by strategic planning, process improvements, and a commitment to building collaborative relationships that brought new technologies to market.
Dr. Wright holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering with a minor in biochemistry from Cornell University, where his research focused on drug delivery, and a B.ChE. in Chemical Engineering from Auburn University.