Nucleus is the center that brings together all of the elements essential to innovation and research commercialization success.

As a business center, Nucleus orchestrates recruitment, incentives, shared community and infrastructure services. And, true to its name, Nucleus is positioned to become the center of leading national innovation and research parks.

As an entity, Nucleus' work is integral to the development of the research park currently underway at UofL's Haymarket 30-block property in downtown Louisville. In this role, Nucleus is creating a vibrant technology business district at Haymarket along the city's Healthcare / University / Riverfront corridor.

Paul Kusserow, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer for Humana Inc., has joined the Nucleus Board of Advisors. At Humana, he is responsible for leading the company’s strategic planning function and its merger and acquisition and venture-capital activities. Prior to joining Humana in 2009, Kusserow was managing director of Ziegler Health Vest Fund. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and earned a master’s degree from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Ruth W. Brinkley, FACHE, has served as the president and CEO of KentuckyOne Health in Louisville since January 2012. The health system formed in 2012 from the merger of Saint Joseph Health System in Lexington, Ky., and Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare in Louisville and later partnered with University Hospital in Louisville and the James Graham Brown Cancer Center.

Ms. Brinkley also serves as the senior vice president of operations at Englewood, Colo.-based Catholic Health Initiatives.

Craig Richard, CEcD, joined Greater Louisville Inc. in January 2013. He leads GLI, the metro chamber of commerce in attracting and expanding businesses in the Louisville region, enhancing the business climate and attracting and preparing a talented workforce to support local businesses.

Prior to GLI, he served as the Chief Economic Development Officer of the Greater Houston Parternship where he led economic development initiatives including business recruitment; business retention and expansion; international trade and foreign direct investment; research; and Opportunity Houston, a $32 million economic development marketing fund.

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We are piloting a Nucleus Vendor list on our website for companies that perform services for start-up and early stage companies.  Vendors on this list, which will be accessible to Nucleus tenants and entrepreneurs in the Kauffman FastTrac TechVenture program, will be required to offer a discounted service in order to participate.  For additional information and to participate in this pilot program, please contact Mary Tapolsky at 569-2059 or mtapolsky@nucleusky.com

Business Consulting and Human Resources (HR) firm Laurus Strategies and EmPowerHR partners with University of Louisville’s Nucleus Innovation Center to promote economic development and business growth in Louisville.

Focused on nurturing entrepreneurship and business growth, the new partnership leads to the opening of Laurus Strategies and EmPowerHR’s first Louisville office housed in the Nucleus Downtown Innovation Park TechCenter at 201 East Jefferson Street in Downtown Louisville.

Louisville, Kentucky, March 19, 2013 – Laurus Strategies, a business consulting firm specializing in all stages of the employee life cycle and its PEO division, EmPowerHR, a provider of integrated HR solutions for growing businesses are proud to announce their partnership with the Nucleus Innovation Center, the innovation and economic development arm of the University of Louisville Foundation.

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