UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI - Key Persons
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- Senior Digital Content Specialist
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- Events and Communications
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- Digital Communications Specialist
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- Associate General Counsel
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- Program Manager, Center for Entrepreneurship
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- UC Esports Club President
The UC Esports program fosters community, competition and academics. Students can come together over their shared passion for Esports to compete, train and engage together. Additionally, the UC Esports program provides a home for all things Esports: the Esports Innovation Lab. This lab is the home for practice, competition, events, and community. Lastly, the UC Esports program serves as a catalyst for student development, providing opportunities for personal and professional development with partners within the business community and the Cincinnati Innovation District.
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- Creative Services Manager
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- Computer & Information / 513 - 556 - 4357
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- Associate Director, Center for Entrepreneurship
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- Manager, Outreach and Engagement
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- Coordinator Unit Operations
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- Senior Licensing Associate - Physical Sciences
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- Digital Content Specialist, Creative Services
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- Senior Director Marcom Operations
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- Senior Technology Transfer Compliance Associate
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- Director of Learning Services
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- Director of the CID Experience Events, Esports
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- Assistant Director of Learning Services
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- Executive Director of Learning Services
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- Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Strategy Officer
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Ryan Hays is Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer at the University of Cincinnati. He leads the Office of Innovation, including the 1819 Innovation Hub and the Cincinnati Innovation District. He oversees the University's Department of Marketing + Communications, in addition to serving as Senior Advisor to the President and the Board of Trustees.
From 2012 to 2022, Hays served as the President's Chief of Staff, overseeing the Office of the President and the Office of the Board of Trustees. Hays was the primary architect for the University's strategic direction Next Lives Here, in addition to the past strategic plan Creating Our Third Century. In 2019, he served as Interim Director of Athletics. In 2020, he co-led the University's enterprise-wide response to the pandemic.
Hays served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the University of Cincinnati Research Institute (UCRI), the precursor to the Office of Innovation, from 2014 to 2022. In 2016, he secured a $40 million investment to create the 1819 Innovation Hub. In 2017, he hired the University's first Chief Innovation Officer. In 2020, he helped establish the Cincinnati Innovation District.
Prior to UC, Hays was Assistant Dean of the Faculty at Princeton University. At Princeton, his duties spanned all four academic divisions of the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. He co-managed a $600 million faculty budget. He facilitated the appointment of approximately 500 lecturers and visiting professors. He oversaw the appointment of all faculty leaders of academic centers, institutes and programs, as well as members of departmental advisory councils.
Prior to Princeton, Hays staffed the Board of Trustees at Emory University. His work focused on strategic planning, trustee recruitment and board development. At Emory, Hays taught in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts (ILA), the oldest interdisciplinary doctoral program in the country. Prior to Emory, Hays served as special assistant to the Dean of the Tucker Foundation at Dartmouth College. In 1997, Hays helped launch the Presidents' Summit for America's Future under the direction of Retired General Colin Powell.
Hays received a BA from DePauw University and a PhD in psychoanalytic studies and postmodern theory from Emory University. His dissertation on Sigmund Freud has ranked among the Top 20 most-accessed scholarly works on ProQuest, an electronic library of more than 2.1 million dissertations and theses. He is currently completing a book on strategists.
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