Staff Directory

VPRI Executive

Executive Support

Elise Vredenbregt
Manager, Administrative Support and Executive Assistant to Gail Murphy
elise.vredenbregt@ubc.ca
604-822-0233

Maureen Collins
Manager, Special Projects and Executive Assistant to the Executive Director
maureen.collins@ubc.ca
604-827-2983

Daniela Hetrea
Executive Assistant to Suzie Currie
daniela.hetrea@ubc.ca
250-807-9042

Hannelore Roos
Executive Assistant to Rachel Fernandez
hannelore.roos@ubc.ca

VPRI Staff Directory

Communications

Jamie Hall
Senior Manager, Communications
jamie.hall@ubc.ca
604-822-1267

Mary Chen
Communications Specialist
mary.chen@ubc.ca
604-822-6050

Clare Kiernan
Communications Strategist
clare.kiernan@ubc.ca
604-827-1870

Ariane Madden
Communications Strategist
ariane.madden@ubc.ca
604-827-5399

Innovation Partnerships

Iain Begg
Managing Director, Innovation Partnerships
iain.begg@ubc.ca
778-855-1757

Karen Chu
Manager, Innovation Partnerships – Life Sciences
karen.k.chu@ubc.ca
672-999-3016

Sabrina Hauser
Manager, Innovation Partnerships – Digital
sabrina.hauser@ubc.ca
604-561-4124

Tina Lee
Partnership Development Specialist
tina.lee@ubc.ca
778-522-1265

Robbin Simão
Manager, Innovation Partnerships – Sustainability & Natural Resources
robbin.simao@ubc.ca
778-874-9769

Institutional Chair Programs

Jay Shankar
Manager, Institutional Programs
jay.shankar@ubc.ca
ubc.crc@ubc.ca
604-827-5107

Research Security

Akshay Singh
Director, Research Security
akshay.singh@ubc.ca
604-827-0042

Iris Cheung
Research Security Advisor
iris.cheung@ubc.ca

Michael Chuang
Research Security Advisor
michael.chuang@ubc.ca

Sam Wollenberg
Research Security Advisor
samuel.wollenberg@ubc.ca

Shared Research Platforms

Janice Andrade
Operations Manager, Shared Research Platforms
janice.andrade@ubc.ca

Zamyla Chan
Strategy Manager, Shared Research Platforms
zamyla.chan@ubc.ca

Strategic Initiatives

Leslie Grad
Manager, Strategic Initiatives
leslie.grad@ubc.ca
604-827-4550

Stacey Herzer
Manager, Internal Research Competitions
stacey.herzer@ubc.ca
604-827-2379

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.



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