Announcement of Hiring for Innovation Partnership
In a news release on the Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch web page, Blackstone Accelerates Growth, a statewide initiative involving the Maine Technology Institute, the Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development and UMaine, announced the hiring of John Voltz as its Executive Director. The Blackstone Foundation launched in October a $3 million fund to help Maine’s entrepreneurial community create more innovative companies and jobs, and expand innovation engineering offerings through UMaine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation.