Aditya (‘Adi’) Gottumukkala is a Catalyst (Business Development) at MIT’s Office of Strategic Alliances and Technology Transfer, where he helps MIT faculty develop research relationships with Industry.

Prior to MIT, Adi held multiple roles at PPG Industries, including spearheading the creation of their Intellectual Asset Management team – responsible for harvesting value from PPG’s large Intellectual property portfolio. Adi was the Chair of the Intellectual Asset Managers Network at Innovation Research Interchange (IRI) and a co-founder of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) of the US and Canada.

Adi has been named inventor on over 15 patents or applications and enjoys working with and mentoring startups with their innovation portfolio.

Adi has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), a master’s degree from the University of Rennes (France), and a bachelor’s degree from Loyola College (India). Adi was a postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and is pursuing a graduate certificate in intellectual property law from the University of New Hampshire School of Law.