Linda Wells M.B.A. ’93, executive director of the GSB’s Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, will leave Stanford for the University of Utah. Wells, who has served her current position for more than 10 years, will assume the role of director of the MBA program and the Sorenson Center for Discovery and Innovation on May 1, 2011.

At the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Wells helped build the program from its initiation, helping create and implement courses and programs and counseled aspiring entrepreneurs at the GSB. She commuted from her home in Park City, Utah to Stanford during this period.

Before coming to the Farm, Wells was the director of product management at Informed Access Systems and a project engineer for Dupont.

The announcement of her move to the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business received positive feedback.

“This is a tremendous win, not only for the school and the students we serve, but also for Utah’s dynamic entrepreneurial community,” Taylor Randall, David Eccles School dean, said in a press release.

-Ivy Nguyen