Riverside has found a startup champion in Taj Ahmad Eldridge.

In his new appointment to head the 2-year-old ExCITE (Center for Innovation Technology & Entrepreneurship) Program, Eldridge is working to recruit new venture partners and entrepreneurs, create workshops and refashion ExCITE.

Eldridge plans to transform ExCITE into a pure startup accelerator in the spirit of SkyDeck at UC Berkeley and the UCLA Anderson Accelerator, where he has served as a judge for the Knapp Venture Competition for a number of years.

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