Leith Martin

Executive Director, Troesh Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Expertise: Entrepreneurship, Business Development, Venture Capital, Community Engagement

Biography

Leith Martin is the executive director of the Troesh Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Lee Business School.

As director, Martin oversees various entrepreneurship programs — such as the Rebel Venture Fund, the UNLV National Science Foundation I-Corps program, and the academic entrepreneurship curriculum — that are tasked with offering entrepreneurial insight and establishing key relationships with stakeholders within the Las Vegas startup community and beyond.

Martin's expertise in entrepreneurship comes from personal experience. He turned down lucrative job offers after college to join startup global steel supplier Turnipseed International then went on to co-found the Las Vegas-based tech company EQUIINET. Martin served executive roles in both startup companies, expanding operations to India, China, and Western Europe.

He joined UNLV in January 2016. 

Education

  • Owner/President Management Program, Harvard Business School
  • M.B.A., Mechanical Engineering, University of Alabama
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Alabama

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Leith Martin In The News

Las Vegas Review-Journal En Español
UNLV is producing more than just college graduates on its campus. It is also helping to create products and companies thanks to a federal program, and the university's efforts have been so successful that it was given the opportunity to expand the reach of the program.
Las Vegas Review Journal
UNLV is producing more than just college graduates at its campus. It is also helping to create products and companies thanks to a federal program, and the university’s efforts have been so successful it was given the opportunity to expand the program’s reach.
Las Vegas Review Journal
A Las Vegas bar dedicated to comic book and sci-fi fans, cosplayers, nerds and everyone in between wants to take its concept to other states.
Fox News
Many people picked up side hustles throughout pandemic, and one involves furry friends

Articles Featuring Leith Martin

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Business and Community | September 23, 2022

UNLV joins with other major universities in the West to create a collaborative hub to assist researchers in commercializing their work and to promote economic development.
 

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Campus News | May 2, 2022

A collection of news stories highlighting the experts and student changemakers at UNLV.

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Campus News | July 9, 2021

A collection of news stories highlighting remembrance and improvement at UNLV.

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Business and Community | December 31, 2020

As the pandemic tightened its grip on Nevada, the nation, and the world, UNLV responded in ways big and small. Members of the media also turned to UNLV's faculty experts for answers.