Kenneth R. Tindall, Ph.D.

Ken Tindall is Secretary of the First Flight Venture Center Board of Directors. He retired from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center in 2018 where he was the Senior Vice President for Science and Business Development. From 2000 – 2007, he also served as the President of the Biotechnology Center- sponsored North Carolina Genomics and Bioinformatics Consortium. Ken previously held positions at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and Yale University. He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from Montana State University and a Ph.D. in Genetics through the University of Tennessee at the Oak Ridge National Lab. From 1994 - 2015, he was an adjunct associate professor in the Toxicology Curriculum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ken has served on numerous nonprofit and educational Boards including the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED), Southeast BIO (SEBIO), Friends of the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, the NC Board of Science, Technology and Innovation, the Triangle Global Health Consortium and the North Carolina Central University Board of Trustees. Throughout his career Ken has been an advocate for stimulating innovation, enabling technology commercialization and exploring the role of public-private partnerships in growing life science clusters.