Wood to head Cowboy Technologies
Friday, March 25, 2011
“I am very pleased and excited about having Steven join the OSU Center for Innovation and Economic Development group,” said Dr. Joseph Alexander, president and director of external relations for the center. “We are most fortunate to have a person of his experience and professional connections leading this new venture to commercialize faculty inventions.”
Wood already has considerable experience in identifying numerous OSU technologies
for commercialization development, most recently as Clinical Faculty for Technology
Entrepreneurship at OSU. He also helped develop advanced business models and business
plans, as well as a campus-wide process for engaging university resources in technology
entrepreneurship, known as the Technology Entrepreneurship Initiative, according to
Alexander.
Wood is the former president of EXOKO, Inc., where he managed all areas of independent
oil and gas operations. He is responsible for initiating his own start-up to commercialize
his patented and award-winning composite product designs, as president for EXOKO Composites
Company, LLC.
Prior to his work with EXOKO, Inc., Wood served as Manager of Operations Analysis for The Williams Companies and as a VP of Finance for a Tulsa based energy company.
Wood graduated from OSU with a B.S. in accounting and is a certified public accountant. Wood is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and American Institute of CPAs. He has been named a Paul Harris Fellow with Rotary International, and a Community Fellow in the Rotary Club of Tulsa. Wood serves as a board member of AAA Oklahoma and is an adviser to the board of directors of other Oklahoma-based companies.