The acting Regional Innovation Office (RIO) is Yoo & Co. Accelerators (YCA), an Arizona-headquartered business accelerator focused on early-stage, science-based technology startups. They offer extensive services to entrepreneurs in the healthcare and life science space, including helping founders connect and form well-matched partnerships with ideal investors who are best able to support their companies in achieving the highest potential. They have close relations across the landscape of investors – from individual angel investors to Series A venture capital. The RIO will be instrumental in propelling the ideation to the development of the region’s cross-sector innovation agenda and shoulders the responsibility of ensuring transparent and effective governance, providing leadership to the Consortium to navigate and realize our shared objectives.