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     Gillian Hook, a senior at Elon University, is part of the Fall 2018 UIF cohort. She is a business student at Elon’s Love School of Business, focusing on an undergraduate degree double majoring in Finance and Accounting. While business is At Elon, her main path, she also enjoys cohort started the bi-annual Business and takes classes in chemistry and STEMStem speaker series as their UIF project. So far individuals from the automobile to the craft brewery industry have been speakers.

[[File:Gillian Hook Photo.jpg|thumb]]<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Gillian is originally from Pittsburgh, PA, and this is where she first found her interest in innovation and entrepreneurship through startup companiesin her hometown of Pittsburgh, PA. In the spring of 2017, she had the opportunity to attend her first Angel Investment meeting with a company in PittsburghBlue Tree Allied Angels. Right awayImmediately, she was intrigued by the process and vowed to learn more. By the summer of 2018, she had become an active participant in Next Act Fund, a woman -led Angel Investment group also in Pittsburgh. One reason Her interest in start-up companies and the endless entrepreneurial possibilities are a few reasons why Gillian became a University Innovation Fellow is to expand her interest in innovation and entrepreneurship, based on her experience with Angel Investment.</span>