Inventor Doug Hall to Highlight Friday UMaine Event
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — Doug Hall, a 1981 University of Maine graduate whose success as an inventor and entrepreneur has gained widespread recognition and a role as one of the four judges on the ABC television program “American Inventor,” will be the guest speaker at Friday’s Student Innovation Center ribbon cutting at UMaine. The event is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. under a tent between the Jenness Hall parking lot and the new Student Innovation Center building.
The Student Innovation Center will soon be online as home to academic programming and other activities related to entrepreneurism and innovation. It will provide a place for UMaine students who wish to take courses and participate in programs that will help them learn to develop their ideas and create successful business enterprises.
UMaine President Robert Kennedy will host Friday’s event, which will also include remarks from State Sen. Elizabeth Mitchell (D-Vassalboro). The program will feature a video presentation with successful UMaine students and former students describing their entrepreneurial activities.
Hall is founder and CEO of Eureka! Ranch, an international enterprise that works with corporate clients to inspire creativity and the development of new services and products. He was previously Master Marketing Inventor at Procter & Gamble, where he set new standards for innovation and invention. An author, radio host and public speaker, Hall spends much of his time working with people on turning ideas into successful businesses. He regularly visits his alma mater, working with UMaine students in the university’s Innovation Engineering classes and other activities.