Groton attorney Jeff Godley has been named to an advisory panel of the statewide entrepreneurial organization CTNext.

The CTNext board of directors announced this week that it has formed a Higher Education Entrepreneurship Advisory Committee to help foster collaboration within Connecticut’s public and private higher education system to strengthen innovation, entrepreneurship and the state’s economy.

Godley is joined on the advisory committee by James Boyle, director of the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute; Elena Cahill, entrepreneur in residence at the University of Bridgeport; Ferenc Fazekas, a Quinnipiac School of Business student; Chris Hamer, entrepreneur in residence at Fairfield University; Makaela Kingsley, director of the Wesleyan Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship; Randeka Maric, vice president of research at the University of Connecticut; Vince Murphy, a Norwalk Community College Foundation board member, and Michael Niastro, chief executive at Central Connecticut State University

Godley, an attorney with Brown Jacobson, is commissioner of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges and an ex-officio board member of the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut.

To learn more, visit www.ctnext.com.