Dr Peter Robertson is stepping down as associate VP research and industry relations, director of the technology transfer office at the Univ of Alberta and CEO of TEC Edmonton. Robertson returns to the private sector to assist a California-based geotechnical spin-off firm he helped create. His TEC Edmonton duties will be assumed on an acting basis by Pamela Freeman. She will continue to manage JumpStart, the U of A’s renamed Spin-Off Company Development Program. An executive search is underway to find a permanent replacement. TEC Edmonton is a joint venture of U of A and Edmonton Economic Development Corp….