Kevin Kirby

Kevin is Ancora’s Senior Advisor focused on university relationships. In his role, he leverages a career spent in public and private institutions with research and innovation as their core missions. This has yielded broad, deep leadership experience in every functional area of higher education.

Over the past 25 years, he has served as COO at Rice University, Columbia University Medical Center, and the National Institutes of Health. Early career experience at the U.S. Army Research Lab spanned basic research on materials, technology management, science advising, and a stint in the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy.

Kevin earned his Doctorate of Higher Education Management from the University of Pennsylvania, MS in Management (Sloan Fellow) from MIT, MS in Organizational Learning from George Mason University, and BS in Chemical Engineering from Syracuse University.