Directors / Advisors



Carol Ann Dykes

Chief Operating Officer
University of Central Florida Technology Incubator

Ms. Carol Ann Dykes is Chief Operating Officer of the University of Central Florida Technology Incubator (UCFTI). Named 2004 Incubator of the Year by the National Business Incubation Association, the UCFTI is a university-community partnership that builds high-tech opportunities into successful business ventures in Central Florida. The Incubator currently serves nearly 50 companies in facilities in the Central Florida Research Park, Downtown Orlando and Sanford, FL. The Incubator has graduated 17 companies in its six years of existence. Incubator companies have created an estimated 700 jobs, generate $200M+ in annual revenues and have received over $150M of investment capital. Previously she was a member of the University of Florida (UF) faculty in the College of Engineering where she served as Associate Director of the Southern Technology Applications Center supporting companies, federal laboratories and universities across the southeastern United States in their technology commercialization activities. She also served as Director of the UF University Center facilitating partnerships between Florida companies/entrepreneurs and the State's universities for joint technology commercialization activities.

Carol Ann is Past President of the University Economic Development Association. She is a member of the National Business Incubation Association, the Florida Business Incubation Association, and the Association of University Technology Managers. She is a member of the Advisory Group for the Gainesville Technology Enterprise Center and serves on the Board for the Florida Hospital East Orlando Foundation, the Blanchard Park YMCA Family Center and the Athena Foundation's PowerLink Program. In 2005, she was selected by Orlando Business Journal as one of the top five Women Business Executives in Orlando. Carol Ann is a graduate of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge..