Carnegie Mellon Names Meredith Meyer Grelli First Entrepreneurship Vice Provost, Effective July 1
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Updated · Carnegie Mellon University · Jun 11
Carnegie Mellon Names Meredith Meyer Grelli First Entrepreneurship Vice Provost, Effective July 1
3 articles · Updated · Carnegie Mellon University · Jun 11
Summary
July 1 marks Meredith Meyer Grelli’s start as Carnegie Mellon’s inaugural vice provost for entrepreneurship and associate vice president, a new university-wide post created to coordinate entrepreneurship education.
The role stems from advisory board recommendations that called entrepreneurial education central to CMU’s mission and urged a more integrated ecosystem linking programs, resources and expertise across the university.
Grelli will report to the provost and vice president for research, leading a scalable curriculum, governance structures, academic programs and funding models while reviewing entrepreneurship education with CMU schools, the Swartz Center and the University Education Council.
Since joining CMU in 2020, Grelli has launched programs that connected 40 founders with 40 venture firms, soft-circled $250 million for participating companies and raised $4 million for research-based startups.
Her track record also includes CMU Startup Week—now drawing more than 2,000 participants and 200 investors—underscoring the university’s push to turn student ideas into ventures through IP education, venture-capital co-ops and stronger accelerator-to-degree pathways.