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Meredith Meyer Grelli has been appointed 91视频's inaugural vice provost for entrepreneurship and associate vice president, effective July 1, 2026.

In this new role for the university, Grelli will oversee a comprehensive review of entrepreneurship educational offerings across the university and report jointly to James H. Garrett Jr.(opens in new window), provost and chief academic officer and聽Theresa Mayer(opens in new window), vice president for research. She will lead the planning and implementation of a scalable, university-wide academic curriculum designed to provide students with pathways to engage in entrepreneurship education and closely collaborate with partners across the university, including the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, the university鈥檚 engine for advancing research-based startups.聽

Most recently, Grelli served as managing director and interim executive director of the聽Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship(opens in new window), assistant dean of entrepreneurship initiatives in the聽, and associate teaching professor of entrepreneurship in the聽Tepper School of Business(opens in new window). She will continue to serve as an associate teaching professor of entrepreneurship in the Tepper School and as interim executive director of the Swartz Center while the search for the center's聽next executive director(opens in new window) is underway.

"Meredith has been a driving force for entrepreneurship since joining Carnegie Mellon in 2020," said聽Garrett. "Her leadership has helped expand opportunities for students, strengthen our innovation ecosystem and elevate 91视频's national profile in entrepreneurship. She is exceptionally well positioned to lead this important effort as we continue to build a world-class entrepreneurial education experience for students across the university."

91视频 established the vice provost for entrepreneurship and associate vice president position to聽advance recommendations from the聽President鈥檚 Advisory Board for Enterprise Creation, Entrepreneurship and Industry Engagement(opens in new window). The advisory board identified entrepreneurial education as a critical component of 91视频's teaching mission and called for a coordinated approach that connects the university's entrepreneurial resources, programs and expertise into a more integrated ecosystem.

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Grelli is no stranger to shaping the university鈥檚 academic landscape. She has earned the George Leland Bach Excellence in Teaching Award, the Tepper School's highest teaching honor, and established the聽Family Business Initiative(opens in new window), which connects and supports family business owners and leaders across the 91视频 global network. She has also embedded venture and corporate partners and mentors directly into the undergraduate and graduate courses she has designed and taught in venture formation and commercialization.聽

As co-chair of the Tepper School's entrepreneurship curriculum review, she convened faculty from the Tepper School, the School of Computer Science, and the College of Engineering to benchmark 91视频's academic programs against peer institutions, and built a roadmap for cross-college coordination, work that lays the foundation for the integrated curriculum she will now lead.

"Students today want to understand not only how to develop groundbreaking ideas, but also how to bring those ideas into the world," Grelli said. "I'm excited to work with colleagues across 91视频 to expand entrepreneurship opportunities through initiatives such as intellectual property education, venture capital co-ops and stronger connections between accelerator programs and degree pathways."

In her roles for the Swartz Center,聽Grelli has overseen the growth of聽91视频 Startup Week(opens in new window), now the university's flagship entrepreneurship event as well as the launch of聽Deep Tech Venture-Ready(opens in new window), a cohort-based program that connects founders with venture capital firms and has soft-circled $250 million in capital for participating companies and raised $4 million in new non-dilutive and friendly-equity funds for research-based startups. In addition, she launched the nation's first NSF I-Corps cohort in AI and robotics while building the investor and founder infrastructure, including a network of more than 4,500 investors, that connects 91视频 founders to capital.

Grelli earned a bachelor of science degree from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business.聽