Neil Iscoe, Ph.D.
Director, Office of Technology Commercialization
Assistant: Tracy Zimmerman
Phone: (512) 475-9795
Email: iscoe@otc.utexas.edu

Neil Iscoe is Director of the Office of Technology Commercialization for The University of Texas at Austin. Neil is an experienced entrepreneur having founded his first technology company, Statcom, in 1979. Prior to his tenure at OTC, Neil was founder and Chairman of Digital Certainty, a firm that provided expertise in technology development strategies, business planning, and technology litigation. Formerly he was founder and CEO of eCertain, a company that sold secure transaction solutions for legal and financial markets.

Prior to founding eCertain, he was the Division Manager of Advanced Technology for EDS. In this capacity, he established and managed an R&D laboratory, developed and deployed software technologies that reduced costs for the EDS business units, evaluated technology acquisitions, and built a Financial Trading and Technology Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Neil has also worked as a researcher at the Microcomputer and Electronics Consortium (MCC), where he focused on methods of improving software development practices and conducted field studies of large software projects that included telephony, defense, and enterprise applications.

Neil has an engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin. He serves as an adjunct professor at UT in the Computer Science department.