Jeff Costantine will retire this fiscal year as president of the Nashville Technology Council. The board of directors has begun the search for a new president.
Joseph G. Danek stepped down as executive director of the EPSCoR/IDeA Foundation. He will continue work at the foundation as its senior advisor and will also remain senior vice president of the Implementation Group, a Washington consulting firm. James B. Hoehn, a senior associate at the foundation, became its executive director.
Monica Doss, the longtime president of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development who stepped down earlier this year, has been named director of the Kauffman Foundation FastTrac program.
Mike Edwards, former assistant vice president and director of the Office of Research at the University of Notre Dame, has been named associate vice president for research in the Office of Research and Technology Management at Case Western Reserve University.
Governor Janet Napolitano announced several staff changes August 12, including director of commerce Jan Lesher will become the governor's new chief of staff and Marco Lopez, Jr. will replace Lesher at the Department of Commerce.
C. Peter Magrath, a veteran higher-education leader and president emeritus of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, has been named interim president of West Virginia University.
Steven Roth and Karen Olson have been named entrepreneurs-in-residence at the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.