Timothy Kriewall

Timothy J. Kriewall has been a Program Director at the Kern Family Foundation since July, 2008. In this role, he leads the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN) program. He also works closely with other foundation senior staff in program planning, development, and strategy implementation. This KEEN collaboration includes identifying and analyzing opportunities to advance the Foundation's mission to enhance engineering entrepreneurial education to instill the tools and philosophies of free enterprise for the preservation of American economic leadership in the world. Dr. Kriewall served as President of Wisconsin Lutheran College in Milwaukee, a position he held since 2003. He began his career at Bell Telephone Laboratories, and has served in various capacities at 3M and Medtronic corporations, focusing on the invention and commercialization of innovative medical devices, including cochlear implants and state-of-the-art perfusion systems. Dr. Kriewall also served as a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan Medical School for eight years, earning the rank of Associate Professor.