Meg Arnold is the Director of Business Development & Entrepreneurship at UC Davis InnovationAccess, and has developed numerous programs to foster entrepreneurship on campus and in the Sacramento region.

Meg came to UC Davis in 2002 as Manager, Entrepreneur Development at UC Davis CONNECT, and was promoted to Director, UC Davis CONNECT in 2005. In March, 2007, UC Davis CONNECT became UC Davis InnovationAccess, in an expansion of UC Davis's commitment to entrepreneurship on campus. Reflecting this commitment, a fundamental shift in UC Davis’s approach to startup companies and entrepreneurship has generated nearly 20 new start-up companies from research activities underway on campus.

Before joining UC Davis, Meg spent ten years in the telecommunications industry, working primarily in strategic planning and business development for AT&T Canada, in Toronto, and British Telecom (BT), in London. In these roles, her work focused on mergers and acquisitions, strategic and joint ventures; in addition, at BT she worked to coordinate a single product platform for Internet-based business services across Europe. She was also involved with the then-largest telecom acquisition in Canada, and the corporate restructuring and spin-off program of BT in 2001-02.

Meg has an MBA in Finance from the University of San Francisco, and a BA in English from Cornell University.