Bradley University announces Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Peter Johnsen is leaving to become President of iNovaCom Partners.

Johnsen has been in the position for 2–years. He had previous worked as Director of the Ag lab in Peoria and was a founding director of Peoria NEXT.

iNovaCom is a technology company specializing in biobased products for industrial applications and Dr. Johnsen has significant research in biobased products.

While at Bradley, Johnsen started the Project Springboard business plan competition to help entrepreneurs.

Bradley appointed Associate Provost, Dr. Robert Bolla, interim Provost while a national search for a new provost is conducted