MIT Enterprise Forum taps Kivel as chairman

The MIT Enterprise Forum Inc. announced today that Richard Kivel has been appointed the new chairman of its global board of directors.

The forum described Kivel as "a serial entrepreneur" who currently serves as chief executive of TheraGenetics, a personalized medicine diagnostics company with offices in Cambridge and London.

The MIT Enterprise Forum is a volunteer-driven organization, operated out of the MIT Alumni Association, and it has been a platform for entrepreneurial networking, inspiration, and education since 1978.

Kivel (left), who has degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston College, will also hold an ex-officio seat on the MIT Alumni Association board of directors; Kivel succeeds Joe Hadzima, who has served as chairman for the past four years, the forum said.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)