Kelley Rich

Kelley Rich is the Executive Director of Commercialization at the IDEA Center of the University of Notre Dame overseeing the Commercialization Engine process that transforms early-stage innovations into attractive investment opportunities through problem, technology and market validation.
Kelley is an experienced intreprenuer with previous brand management, innovation and marketing leadership roles at SC Johnson and Whirlpool Corporation. Her brand innovation experience includes: WhirlpoolⓇ, AmanaⓇ, KitchenAidⓇ, ZiplocⓇ, RaidⓇ, and GladeⓇ. She has an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, a masters in aerospace engineering from University of Cincinnati and a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.