Patrick McQuown has been Towson University’s executive director of entrepreneurship since 2020. His responsibilities include oversight over the StarTUp at the Armory facility, as well as its eponymous recurring accelerator for small businesses and entrepreneurs. He came to this position after several entrepreneurship-related positions at such universities as Yale, Brown and James Madison. Before then, McQuown was instrumental to launching and leading two startups: Proteus and SinglePoint.