Luna Innovations Strengthens Executive Leadership

Dr. Kent Murphy, founder, president and CEO of Luna Innovations, and a member of the Board of Directors, announces changes to the company’s executive leadership team.

Jonathan Cool, current member of the Board of Directors, is named acting president and COO. In this role, he will lead the overall strategy, direction and administration of the company, accelerating the evolution in the Luna Innovations business model to focus on commercialization. Cool will also maintain his role as a member of the Board of Directors.

Scott Graeff takes on the role of chief commercialization officer to bring greater clarity and speed to identifying, investigating and evaluating market and product growth opportunities, licensing opportunities and strategic business alliances in line with the organization’s long-range goals and business model.

“We believe today’s changes strengthen our leadership team and allow us to accelerate the advancement of the business model toward the goal of increasing revenue generation from commercial activities,” Dr. Murphy said.

Dr. Murphy continues as CEO for the company and as a member of the Board of Directors with an enhanced focus on driving innovation and managing critical relationships with existing and new government and commercial partners.

“I look forward to Jonathan’s increasing role in the day-to-day management of the company, which will allow me an enhanced focus in the areas critical to our company’s success – developing our strategic vision and new innovations, implementing our strategy and developing and managing key customer relationships,” he said.

The Board and Dr. Murphy also decided that in the future there will be a transition of Dr. Murphy from the role of the company’s principal executive officer to a role that enables Dr. Murphy to direct more of his time and attention to the company’s strategic and scientific vision and new innovations and to developing and managing key customer relationships.