BIANYS STAFF
Kim Grant
Executive Director (Interim)
Kim has been an advocate for entrepreneurs for over two decades
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Kim Grant, Biography
Kim joined BIANYS in May 2025 as Deputy Director overseeing membership and program services. She launched her own consulting firm, KBG Business Development in January 2025 after having spent twenty years of her career helping entrepreneurs. Her clients include public, private, institutional and academic collaborations with a focus on innovation, entrepreneurism and economic development.
Previously, Kim was Vice President of Business Development at Western New York’s economic development agency, Invest Buffalo Niagara, where she led the team that attracted and retained businesses that generated over 1500 new jobs and a billion dollars in capital investment. Kim also worked as Business Development Executive at the University at Buffalo for the Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and the UB Jacobs School of Medicine as the Director of the Surgical Simulation Lab helping innovation minded clinicians navigate the Start UP process.
Kim is a Leadership Buffalo graduate from 2011, and received her Bachelor’s in Business Studies from Buffalo State.
Our Mission
Expand: resources available to incubator-based enterprises, working with policy-makers on matters affecting them.
Promote: entrepreneurial activities of incubators within the state.
Network: business incubators, incubated companies, and others interested in the innovation economy of New York State.