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Kent Murphy

Dr. Kent Murphy is the Founder and CEO of Luna Innovations, a next-generation, employee-owned company. Luna has built a complete network for driving innovative technologies through the development cycle all the way to fully functioning separate subsidiary companies. Luna has 200+ working the technology sector in biotechnology, nanomaterials, optical fiber telecommunications and instrumentation, and control and predictive based maintenance as well as other key technologies of the future. Luna Innovations has licensed patents from Virginia universities, government labs, and large industrial partners, and is ranked second only to GM in industrial-funded research at Virginia Tech.
Murphy is a recipient of both the High Tech Entrepreneur Award for the New Century Technology Council and the Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Virginia Small Business Innovations Research. Murphy holds a B.S. Degree in Engineering Science and Mechanics and the Master of Science and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech.
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