2021 California Entrepreneurship Educators Conference
Reinventing Entrepreneurship for the Future
April 15th - 16th, 2021
In 2015, the Lavin Entrepreneurship Center initiated a boutique-style conference to bring together world-class entrepreneurship
educators, researchers, and center staff to share knowledge and perspectives to build
exceptional entrepreneurship programs. In the years since the conference has attracted
a diverse group of professionals in academia to join us for a few days of fruitful
discussions and new collaborations at the California Entrepreneurship Educators Conference
(CEEC).
On April 15th and 16th, 2021, we delivered our 7th iteration of CEEC, hosting 423
attendees from 21 countries and 25 U.S. states and territories. The theme of this
year’s conference was to reinvent entrepreneurship education and pedagogy in the year
of a pandemic. Thanks to our 100+ speakers and moderators in 35 sessions, we could
spark influential conversations that will impact entrepreneurship education for years
to come. This year’s theme of reinvent was a continuation of the 2020 conference, where we connected 925 attendees, representing 65 countries and 28 U.S. states to reimagine entrepreneurship education.
Steve graduated Magna Cum Laude from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a degree in Mathematics.
He applied those skills to the insurance industry, specifically actuarial science.
He earned the accreditation as an Associate of the Society of Actuaries. Steve played
an integral role in forming Specialty Insurance Service in the mid-80’s. Steve transitioned
from the CTO role to the CEO by 1990. He led the company through a round of venture
financing and structured a successful exit in 1998. In 2000 Steve earned his EMBA
from The Peter Drucker School of Management at the Claremont Graduate University.
In 2004, Steve started an independent consulting firm specializing M&A transactions
for closely held companies and in mentoring and coaching entrepreneurs. Beginning
in early 2009, Steve was a founding executive with Avisio, Inc., a public company
focused on transforming underutilized assets into successful companies. Steve is also
a member of the Tech Coast Angels investment group.
Dennis Abremski is the Executive Director of the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur
at the University of California, San Diego. The Institute for the Global Entrepreneur
(IGE) is a formal collaboration between the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
and the Rady School of Management, providing entrepreneurial education and services
to UC San Diego students, faculty, alumni, staff, and affiliates, through innovative
programs and partnerships. He has experience as a founder, mentor, & business and
technology executive.
Mujtaba Ahsan is an associate professor of management in the Fowler College of Business
at San Diego State University. Mujtaba will be moderating a session and will share
his knowledge as an educator. Ahsan will present on a panel exploring early-stage
entrepreneurship.
Howard E. Aldrich is a Kenan Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In
a session titled “Conversations with Howard Aldrich,” he will reveal his findings
in the ideology and conditions behind one’s sustained belief of extraordinary success,
specifically in “making it big.”
Julius Alejandro is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Dipster LLC. As a leadership
and organizational expert, Alejandro works closely with the entrepreneurship education
programs in San Diego, serving as a mentor with the SDSU Lavin Entrepreneurship Center
and San Diego Miramar College Rec Innovation Lab. He will be a part of a CEEC Teaching
session exploring the cutting edge of technology and teaching, focusing on MVP, app
development, and virtual reality.
Jeff Alves is the managing editor for the Journal of the International Council for
Small Business. Alves is an Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise
& Entrepreneurship and Dean Emeritus at Wilkes University. Dr. Alves will be featured
on the editor’s roundtable at CEEC 2021.
Cesar Bandera, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the New Jersey
Institute of Technology. Dr. Bandera is a computer engineer who received the NASA
Space Act award and two Small Business of the Year Nominations from the U.S. Department
of Defense. He serves on the board for USASBE and is the associate editor for the
Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine. Dr. Bandera will be a
part of a CEEC in Action session focused on the intersection of entrepreneurship and
STEM.
Mark Bannister is the Dean of the Boise State University College of Business and Economics.
Academically, he has supported the development and delivery of cutting edge entrepreneurship
education. Bannister has participated in Federal Reserve Bank and Kauffman Foundation
activities aimed at defining the components of an “entrepreneurial ecosystem.” He
has been a co-founder, investor, and mentor in multiple start-up businesses. He is
particularly proud of his entrepreneurship work in the world of wind energy and his
role in the development of the Alexander Wind Farm, a 48.3 Megawatt $83 MM project.
Dennis Barber III is an assistant professor in the Miller School of Entrepreneurship
at East Carolina University. He previously served as an Entrepreneurship Teaching and Learning Scholar with the USASBE. Barber III will appear on a panel showcasing award-winning entrepreneurship programs
from across the country.
- Caryn Beck-Dudley became AACSB’s new president and CEO in June 2020 and previously
served as the dean of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, the
College of Business at Florida State University and the Jon M. Huntsman School of
Business at Utah State University.
- A passionate supporter of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial education, she helped
build and fund entrepreneurship programs for her entire administrative career. At
Utah State University, she hired the first entrepreneurship faculty and worked to
help build curriculum and partnerships with the Technology Transfer Office and the
USU Research Foundation. At Florida State University she worked with faculty and
donors to expand entrepreneurship programs, including adding the Entrepreneurship
Bootcamp for Veterans. She led the vision, planning and public presentations for
the university’s Entrepreneurial University Big Idea. This included partnering with
many colleges across the campus, recruiting and hiring several entrepreneurs in residence
in many units, starting an entrepreneurship minor and the expanding several programs,
including the InNOLEvation Business Plan competition, E- Month, Student Business Incubators
among others. Partially as a result of these efforts, in December 2015 Florida State
University announced a $100 million gift from the Jim and Jan Moran Foundation to
create The Jim Moran School (now College) of Entrepreneurship.
- At the Leavey School of Business, she continued her passion for entrepreneurship education
by receiving a transformative gift to create the Ciocca Center for Innovation and
Entrepreneurship (formerly the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship). This allowed
a revisioning of the Center to be a university wide hub for Ignatian informed entrepreneurial
thinking across campus. It includes new course development for both the design thinking
pathways as well as the popular entrepreneurship minor, new student programming, faculty
research grants, four new tenure track hires, four new entrepreneurs in residence
hires and a university accelerator. It was created in partnership with the School
of Engineering, School of Education and Counseling Psychology, School of Law and the
College of Arts and Sciences.
Alex Breckon is the Assistant Director of the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur
at the University of California, San Diego. The Institute for the Global Entrepreneur
(IGE) is a formal collaboration between the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
and the Rady School of Management, providing entrepreneurial education and services
to UC San Diego students, faculty, alumni, staff, and affiliates, through innovative
programs and partnerships.
Candida Brush is the F.W. Olin Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson
College and the Faculty Director of the Diana International Research Institute. With
over 160 publications, Brush is an early pioneer of entrepreneurship research, conducting
one of the first and largest entrepreneurship studies ever. She previously served
as the Vice Provost of Global Entrepreneurial Leadership.
Alex Bruton is a Learning Experience Catalyst at the School for Advanced Digital Technology
(SADT) at SAIT. He has worked in corporate contexts as an inventor, engineer, project
and product manager, research manager, and cofounder of an innovation department (the
latter failing quite spectacularly). He holds an MBA in innovation and marketing and
a PhD in engineering, and recently earned a certificate in nutrition science from
Stanford.
Tom Byers is an entrepreneurship professor at Stanford University’s School of Engineering.
He also serves as a faculty director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program,
the school of engineering’s entrepreneurship center. Byers specializes in education
regarding high-growth entrepreneurship and technology innovation. He is a co-PI on a project sponsored by the Office of Naval Research to connect entrepreneurship
education with national security challenges.
Chantal Line Carpentier currently serves as Chief, United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development (UNCTAD) New York office of the Secretary-General since 2014. Previously,
as Major Groups Coordinator for the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
Division for Sustainable Development, she facilitated the engagement of and consultation
with worldwide non-State actors (NGOs, women’s groups, business and industry, etc.)
in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) negotiations and the United Nations Rio+20
Conference. Carpentier has consulted to the United Nations Development Programme,
the World Bank, and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
She obtained competitive grants from the United States Department of Agriculture,
Agriculture Canada, Environmental Defense Fund and the European Union.
Vivek Chhabra is a Partner at 21iQLabs, a consulting organization that helps technology
businesses efficiently grow and expand globally. Chhabra will be a part of a CEEC
Teaching session analyzing entrepreneurship education development from high school
through community college onto university.
David Choi, Ph.D., is a professor of entrepreneurship and director of the Fred Kiesner
Center for Entrepreneurship at Loyola Mount University (LMU). Dr. Choi is also the
director of the Business Incubator in the College of Business at LMU. He will be a
part of a CEEC Teaching session to mobilize the entrepreneurial mindset in underserved
communities.
Min Choi is a passionate designer & educator. Leveraging over 14 years of brand identity,
corporate communications, environmental, infographic, packaging to interactive design,
she has won numerous design awards. She owns Min Choi Design, and also collaborates
with other designers and agencies. Min imparts her knowledge and love of design to
the next generation of designers by teaching graphic design at SDSU, San Diego City
College, and abroad. She has served AIGA San Diego as an Education Director, Vice
President, and a current faculty advisor for City College student group.
Michael P. Ciuchta is an Associate Professor of marketing, entrepreneurship, and innovation
in the Manning School of Business at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Dr.
Ciuchta will be apart of a CEEC Teaching Session that explores reaching entrepreneurship
across disciplines, borders, and ecosystems.
Rick Coplin is an adjunct professor in the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio
State University. Coplin is also the CEO of Rick Coplin International and an Entrepreneurship
Coach at Denison University. He will be a part of a CEEC Teaching session exploring
experiential entrepreneurship through the butterfly idea approach.
Susana C. Santos is an assistant professor of entrepreneurship at Rowan University.
Her main research interests are focused on the cognitive and psychosocial processes
of entrepreneurship at the individual and team level. Other streams of research include
entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial ecosystems and poverty and entrepreneurship
in developed countries.
Rani Dang currently works at CNRS, GREDEG research group (Groupe de Recherche en Economie
Droit et Gestion), Université Côte d'Azur specializing in strategic management and
innovation management. Her specific research interests fall into 3 areas: • Business
models in digital industries & lead users' innovation in Health sector • Knowledge
Integration in collaborative innovation projects • Management of SMEs and Entrepreneurship
within ecosystems
Jamey Darnell is a clinical assistant professor of Entrepreneurship in the Smeal College
of Business at Penn State University.
Alex F. DeNoble is a professor of management and executive director of the Lavin Entrepreneurship
Center in the College of Business at San Diego State University. He currently also
serves as the Chair of the College of Business Steering Committee. Prior to his role
in the Lavin Entrepreneurship Center, he served for 3 years as the Chair of the Management
Department in the College of Business.
George Deriso is a strategy, entrepreneurship, and operations lecturer in the Leeds
School of Business and Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado,
Boulder. Deriso will be a part of a CEEC Teaching session exploring the Entrepreneurial
Mindset Spectrum.
The Mtro. Mario Dipp Núñez graduated from CETYS University Campus Mexicali in 1984
from High School and in 1988 from Industrial Engineering, he takes office as Director
of the Campus of this city on the 1st. January 2014. He holds a Master of Business
Administration (MBA) from Cornell University and is currently pursuing his PhD at
the Ecole de Management in Grenoble, France. Likewise, he has received training in
Competitiveness programs at Harvard Business School. In his professional career he
has worked in companies such as: Sabritas, Bancomer, Standard Chartered Bank in the
city of London and Mexico, Ecogas, among others. Within CETYS he has held the positions
of Coordinator of Masters in Administration, Director of Graduate Studies and Director
of Graduate Studies in Administration at the System level. "Through our VoCETYS we
emphasize the importance of linking our graduates with their alma mater and we seek
to introduce them to the different projects of our institution. I invite you to be
a more active part of the projects, activities and programs that CETYS University
offers for you ", said Mtro. Dipp.
Jason D'Mello is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship in the College of Business
at Loyola Mount University (LMU). He has founded multiple technology and educational startups and serves on The Incubator
School and Health Digital boards. He will be a part of a CEEC Teaching session to mobilize the entrepreneurial mindset
in underserved communities.
Ami Doshi, Ph.D., is a Management Lecturer at SDSU. Her previous work in biotech R&D,
FDA new drug approvals, entrepreneurship policy & development, and new venture creation
have inspired teaching and research interests that embrace cross-disciplinary thinking.
Dr. Doshi is Director of the Fowler College of Business Honors Program and Co-Champion
of an SDSU Big Ideas Initiative project on global food security and regenerative entrepreneurship
ecosystems. She will be part of a CEEC Research session titled "Culture, Value and
SDGs".
Lisa Druxman is the founder of FIT4MOM, the nation’s leading company for pre and postnatal
health, wellness, and fitness programs for every stage of motherhood. FIT4MOM has
created business opportunities for moms nationwide, with more than 300 franchisees
and 1,000 locations across the U.S.
Dr. Laura Dunham is a professor of entrepreneurship and associate dean at the University
of St. Thomas’ Schulze School of Entrepreneurship. Dunham’s area of expertise is in
managerial and ethical challenges of emerging businesses and startups. Prior to working
in academia, she was a management consultant for Renaissance Worldwide.
Craig Elias is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Bow Valley College in Calgary. He serves
as a Startup Mentor for the Alchemist Accelerator and a Scale-Up Mentor for GrowthX
in San Francisco. Elias will be a part of a CEEC Spotlight session focalizing the
USASBE Winners of the Research Idea Pitch Competition.
Aaron Elkins, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Management and Information Systems
Department at San Diego State University. Elkin’s research focuses on management and
the online environment of human sex trafficking. In a panel, Elkins will explore the
digital transformation of entrepreneurship following the minimization of COVID-19.
Dr. Ayman El Tarabishy is the President and CEO of the International Council for Small
Business (ICSB), the oldest and largest non-profit organization across the globe devoted
to advancing small business research and practices. ICSB is a coalition of more than
a dozen national organizations across the globe and represented in over seventy countries.
Judi Eyles is the director of the Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship and CyBIZ
Lab at Iowa State University. Eyles will appear on a panel showcasing award-winning entrepreneurship programs from across
the country.
Vivian teaches entrepreneurship, international business, and marketing. She has 20
years of banking experience in Asia and North America, and has served in senior management
positions in global financial institutions prior to her career shift to academia.
Vivian has been an entrepreneur who started and managed F&B businesses while raising
three kids as a single parent, and building a corporate career. Passionate about education
that is accessible and inclusive, Vivian dedicated her volunteer work in teaching
at refugee camps across the world through Jesuit Worldwide Learning. She founded the
Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at City College of San Francisco to provide
opportunity for adults and non-traditional learners to have access to entrepreneurship
education. She also teaches part-time at University of San Francisco and currently
a doctoral candidate in Adult Learning and Leadership at Columbia University. Vivian
was awarded as one of the three 2020 Canvas Educators of the Year.
LinkedIn Handle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivianfaustinopulliam/
Jon Fjeld has been teaching entrepreneurship and strategy, and leading the entrepreneurship
efforts at Duke University since 2005. Before returning to academia, he spent over
twenty years in marketing, engineering and general management in start-ups and public
companies. He has previously served as the Vice President of Engineering for Align
Technology, the CEO of Geomagic and NetEdge Systems, and spent 13 years at IBM.
Ron Fowler is the Vice Chairman and co-owner of the San Diego Padres and the Chairman
and CEO of Liquid Investments, Inc. He is a principal and board member of Columbia
Distributing in Oregon and Washington. Recognized as a beverage industry leader, Ron
has chaired or been a member of numerous corporate and association boards over the
past 40 years.
Ron was named to the Major League Baseball (MLB) Executive Council in 2017 and currently
sits on MLB’s Pension Committee and Labor Policy Committee. From 2015-2016, he served
as chairman of the Labor Policy Committee’s negotiation with the MLB Players Association
on the new Collective Bargaining Agreement that ensures labor peace through 2021.
Craig Galbraith is a professor of management in the Cameron School of Business at
the University of North Carolina, WIlmington.
Dr. SherRhonda “Sher” Gibbs will become the next dean of the Kenneth W. Monfort College
of Business at the University of Northern Colorado. Gibbs is a serial entrepreneur
whose academic experience includes serving on the faculty at Jackson State University
and spearheading entrepreneurial initiatives. She has also held professional positions
with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and at IBM.
Alex Glosenberg is an Assistant Professor of Management in the College of Business
and Fred Kiesner Center for Entrepreneurship at Loyola Mount University (LMU). Dr.
Glosenberg piloted the Personal Initiative (PI) training that teaches the entrepreneurial
mindset. He will be a part of a CEEC Teaching session to mobilize the entrepreneurial
mindset in underserved communities.
Shalini Gopalkrishnan is a mathematics and statistics professor at Valencia College,
where she also researches SDGs, Social Entrepreneurship, and ESG. Dr. Gopalkrishnan
has founded several startups, including Freelancemoms, Lexion Data Analytics, and
Introspect. Dr. Gopalkrishnan will be a part of a CEEC Teaching Session focused on
online education and research.
Gary Graves is a dedicated tenured professor, successful entrepreneur, passionate
artist and a volunteering enthusiast. He is a full-time professor of business management
at Fullerton College, teaching Entrepreneurial Mindset, Principle of E-Business, Small
Business Management, Principles of Advertising and Creativity Matters.
Geoffrey Graybeal, Ph.D., is a Clinical Assistant professor of Entrepreneurship at
the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. Dr. Graybeal
is the co-founder of Lede LLC, a social media and business consulting firm. He will
be a part of a CEEC Teaching session focused on reinventing entrepreneurship education.
A. Cathleen Greiner is the Regional Director Employer Engagement, Business, and Entrepreneurship,
Orange County, California Community Colleges. She is also an entrepreneurship board
member with California State University, Fullerton. Dr. Greiner will be in a session
called Employability and Entrepreneurship, which will critically redesign the core
connection of entrepreneurship in community colleges.
Marc Gruber is the Vice President of Innovation at the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology Lausanne (EPFL). Grueber is a professor at the College of Management of
Technology and Chair of Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization at EPFL.
He will be a part of a CEEC Research session seeking to redefine market opportunities.
Parisa Haim-Faridian, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of entrepreneurship at San
Diego State University. She is a recipient of the Presidential Fellowship Award from Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Haim Faridian will moderate a digital transformation panel.
Global solution based entrepreneur and technologist working to improve outcomes at
higher education institutions.
Michael Hard is the SDSU University Program Director for The National Security Innovation
Network (NSIN). NSIN is a Pentagon-level DoD innovation office under the Office of
the Undersecretary of Defense (Research & Engineering). NSIN's mission is to create
new communities of innovators to solve national security problems. Hard will be a
part of a CEEC in Action session discussing the intersection of entrepreneurship and
STEM.
Michael Harris, Ph.D., is a J. Fielding Miller Distinguished Professor in the Miller School of Entrepreneurship
at East Carolina University. Dr. Harris is also a Fellow in the National Small Business
Institute, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Small Business Strategy. He will appear on a panel showcasing award-winning entrepreneurship programs from across
the country.
Theresa Robinson Harris is the Director of Procurement at the University of San Diego.
Herrera is a Senior Specialist at the Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Division
of the Inter-American Development Bank. His work comprises topics such as capital
markets, Fintech, central banking, financial inclusion, productive financing, among
others. He was Delegate Superintendent for Market Risk and Integrity at the Colombian
financial regulator. Herrera also worked as Chief Risk Officer, Risk Coordinator
and in Front Office functions in the Colombian financial private sector. Herrera also
specializing in financial microeconomics and risk-related topics as at Universidad
del Rosario and Universidad de los Andes, in Bogota, Colombia. He holds BA and MSc.
degrees in Economics from Universidad del Rosario and MSc. Degree in Risk Management
from NYU-Stern.
Tanya Hertz is a lecturer at SDSU and a professor at San Diego Miramar College where
she is also the director for the REC Innovation Lab.
Dr. Daniel Holt is the research director for the Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute
and Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship. Danny also currently holds the Alvin
C. Copeland Professorship. Prior to his career as a professor, he served 20 years
as an active duty military officer in the United States Air Force, working as an engineer
all over the world. He has shared his research on entrepreneurship, family business,
and organizational analysis in over 100 journal articles, book chapters, and conference
papers.
Jeffrey S. Hornsby holds the Henry Bloch/Missouri Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship
and Innovation and assumed the role of executive director of the Regnier Institute
for Entrepreneurship. He has co-authored 156 refereed journal and proceedings articles
appearing in top journals, and his research has earned five conference “best paper
awards.”
Professor in entrepreneurship within the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship
at University of Turku. In my research I particularly focus on entrepreneurship at
the individual level: construction of entrepreneurial identities, and entrepreneurial
careers and entrepreneurship education. I'm currently Head of the entrepreneurship
unit with responsibility for entrepreneurship subject area and the entrepreneurship
team at the Turku School of Economics.
Shingo Igarashi is an Associate Professor at Kyushu University in Japan. Igarashi
is also the Deputy Director-General of QREC Robert T. Huang Entrepreneurship Center
at Kyushu University. He will be a part of a CEEC Teaching exploring the Entrepreneurial
Mindset Spectrum.
Dr. Duane Ireland is a University Distinguished Professor and holds the Benton Cocanougher
Chair in Business in Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. He is currently serving
as the acting dean of the Mays Business School. Ireland will speak alongside Howard
Aldrich to untrodden paths of entrepreneurship research.
Director of Corporate Education
Kurt Jacobs is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship
& Innovation at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dr. Jacobs will be a part
of two CEEC Teaching Sessions. One surrounding the technicalities of entrepreneurship
in terms of investor term sheets, intellectual property, and digital entrepreneurship
and the other the cutting edge of tech and teaching: MVP, app development, and VR.
Sanjay Jain holds a PhD in Management from New York University, as well as a Post-graduate
diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta, and a Bachelor
of Engineering from Bangalore University. Prior to CSUN, he was a faculty member
at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, San Francisco State University and Santa
Clara University. He currently teaches courses in Strategy at the Nazarian College
of Business and Economics.
His research interests include technology entrepreneurship, industry emergence, market
construction, innovation processes in emerging economies and qualitative methods.
Award-winning serial entrepreneur, (INC. 500 fastest growing private companies, SBA
Small Business Person of the Year - State of Illinois, Today's Chicago Woman - 100
Women Making a Difference). Founding director of two university-based centers for
innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategic business growth. University faculty.
Lecturer School of Economics Utrecht University
Yong Jin Kim is a management information system professor at Sogang Business School
and Head of Smart Fintech Research Center in South Korea. One of his areas of research
is MIS and innovation. He will be a part of a session targeting digital transformation
following the depreciation of COVID-19.
Ki-Chan (Kichan) Kim, Ph.D., is the Vice President of Humane Entrepreneurship at ICSB.
Dr. Kim is a Distinguished Professor at the George Washington University School of
Business and a professor at the Catholic University of Korea. His session will explore
humane entrepreneurship.
Kimberly Davis King has over 17 years in the venture capital industry. Kim has been
focused on investing and mentoring startups and high growth companies. Kim is also
currently the co-Director of StartR and mystartupxx at the UCSD Rady Business School,
a lecturer at the Rady UCSD Business School, an Adjunct professor at SDSU and on the
oversight committee for Evonexus a San Diego incubator. As Lecturer for the SDSU Lavin
Entrepreneur Program, she offers a blend of university curriculum and experiential
learning opportunities to students enrolled in the program.
Norris Krueger is a leading expert on how entrepreneurs think and how we learn to
think entrepreneurially - and as expert entrepreneurial thinkers. He is also expert
on developing (& implementing) programs and activities to nurture more innovative,
creative & entrepreneurial individuals, organizations & communities (for example:
Designing entrepreneurship programs & centers).
Olusiji Lasekan is an Assistant Professor at the Universidad Catolica de Temuco in
Chile. His research interests are in Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics,
World Englishes, and English Teaching Methodology. Dr. Lasekan will be a part of a
CEEC Teaching Session focused on online education and research.
Eric Liguori, Ph.D., is a professor and Rohrer Chair of Entrepreneurship at Rowan
University. Dr. Liguori is also the executive director of the Rowan Center for Innovation
and Entrepreneurship. He will be a part of an Editor’s Roundtable at CEEC 2021.
Antonios Livieratos, Ph.D., is an entrepreneurship consultant at the innovation and
Entrepreneurship Unit of the National Technical University of Athens. Dr. Livieratos
is an adjunct lecturer in the Economic Sciences Department at the University of Athens.
He will be a part of a CEEC Teaching session exploring experiential entrepreneurship
through the butterfly idea approach.
Adnane Maalaoui is Director for Entrepreneurship programs at IPAG Business School.
His researches mainly focus on entrepreneurship issues and especially on disadvantaged
entrepreneurs (elderly, refugees, disabled entrepreneurs, etc.). He is interested
in topics such as: entrepreneurial intention and cognitive approach to entrepreneurship.
He mainly applies those questions to cases of diversity and social entrepreneurship.
Adnan Maalaoui is the author of 20+ articles published in academic journals. Likewise,
he is the author of articles published in professional journals, and in edited books.
Adnane is also the author of a series of French speaking MOOCs on entrepreneurship.
Jennifer Madden, Ph.D., is the dean of the School of Business at Linfield University.
Dr. Madden also serves as President of Leverage Point Development, a research and
development consulting firm. She will be a part of a CEEC Research session demonstrating
a lens on empowering entrepreneurship and impact.
Stanley Maloy is the Associate Vice President for Research & Innovation and Professor of Biology at San
Diego State University. Dr. Maloy is a former President of the American Society for
Microbiology and a former advisor to government agencies. He advised the U.S. and
international agencies on research, biosafety, biodefense, health, and graduate education.
His session will explore the intersection of STEM and entrepreneurship.
Dr. Bertha Martinez-Cisneros is the Coordinator of the International Logistics Program
at CETYS University.
Navy McKee is the founder of Kai Pono Solutions. Kai Pono Solutions is a Storm Water
Management project that uses a WaterFiltration Subsystem, with the mission to protect
our precious waterways and to stop the flow of hydrocarbons, sediments and toxic chemicals
from entering our oceans, lakes, rivers, and streams.
Ashwin Mehta has over 50 years of experience in business, industry and academic. He
joined the Manning School of Business at the University of Massachusetts Lowell in
2005 and has been teaching strategy and entrepreneurship at undergraduate and graduate
levels. He founded 2 software companies and worked for a high tech company.
Emil Milevoj is the director for the Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
at Fresno State University.
Leann Mischel is an Associate Professor at Coastal Carolina University based in Myrtle
Beach, South Carolina.
Donald Moliver, Ph.D., is the dean of the Leon Hess Business School at Monmouth University.
His specialties are in international trade and economics, and real estate, and his interests
include real estate valuation issues. Dr. Moliver will be on a roundtable of deans
discussing the new AACSB business school standards.
Dr. Michael H. Morris is an expert in new venture creation, social entrepreneurship,
and creativity & innovation. Dr. Morris is a professor of entrepreneurship and social innovation in the Keough School
of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. He is also the former president of the United States Association of Small Business
and Entrepreneurship (USASBE).
John Mullins is an Associate Professor of Management Practice at the London Business
School. He earned his MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and his Ph.D.
at the University of Minnesota. An award-winning teacher and scholar and one of the
world’s foremost thought leaders in entrepreneurship, John brings to his teaching
and research 20 years of executive experience in high-growth retailing firms, including
two ventures he founded and one he took public.
Dr. Musteen, Charles Hostler Professor of Global Business, received her PhD from the University of Kansas and has joined the Fowler College
of Business in 2006. At SDSU, she teaches courses in international business, international
entrepreneurship and business development. She has also led various workshops and
studies abroad in other countries such as Mexico, China, Italy, France, the Czech
Republic, Israel and Taiwan. Dr. Musteen serves as a Faculty Director of the Center for Advancing Global Business (CAGB), a Senior Editor for Journal of World Business and is the Editor-in-Chief of the ie-scholars.net online academic community.
Dr. David Newton teaches strategy and finance through the Center for Executive Development
under Rady School of Management at UC San Diego.
He was previously a professor at Pepperdine University, the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst, and the founder of the entrepreneurship program at Westmont College.
Dr. Moses Ngoze is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business at the Technical University
of Mombasa in Kenya. Dr. Ngoze is also an Associate Consultant/Researcher of Management
at Capital Strategies Kenya Limited, Nairobi. He will be a part of a CEEC Research
session titled Culture, Value, and SDGs, which analyzes culture and social development
goals.
Anna Nikina Ruohonen is a professor at the Grenoble Ecole de Management and an ambassador
for hundrED Finland. Her Doctoral Dissertation is on women entrepreneurs in Scandinavia
and she has received awards by the United States Association for Small Business and
Entrepreneurship for practical contribution to entrepreneurship.
Temple Northup is the Director of the School of Journalism and Media Studies at San
Diego State University. Before joining the School of Journalism and Media Studies,
he served as the Director of the Jack J. Valenti School of Communication at the University
of Houston.
Jelani Odlum is a program manager for The Michelson Institute of Intellectual Property.
Ahmed Osman is a former president of ICSB and current chairman of their board. Osman
is also CEO of CHROME, an Egyptian-based project management firm. Osman will be a
part of a session centered around humane entrepreneurship.
Nadiya Parekh is an assistant professor of management at Sonoma State University.
Before her position here, Parekh was a professor at the Centre for Social Entrepreneurship,
School of Management and Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai,
India. Dr. Parekh will be a part of a CEEC Research session titled Culture, Value, and SDGs,
analyzing culture and sustainable development goals.
Dr. Robert Parente is a Professor at the University of Salerno, where he founded the
Salerno Declaration on Humane Entrepreneurship, a document calling for a more synergistic
approach to business to utilize more human and natural resources to improve society.
His session will explore humane entrepreneurship.
Katia Passerini, Ph.D., is the Provost and Executive Vice President (EVP) of Seton Hall University. Prior to starting
her position of EVP in July 2020, Dr. Passerini Passerini was the Lesley H. and William
L. Collins Distinguished Chair and Dean of the Lesley H. and William L. Collins College
of Professional Studies at St. John's University. Dr. Passerini will moderate a session
about humane entrepreneurship.
Jennifer Patel is a regional director of business and entrepreneurship at MiraCosta
College. She will discuss the importance of taking a student-centered approach to
establish relationships between educational institutions in order to best help students
transition from where they are, to where they want to be.
Andrew Penaluna is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
His focus in Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship education has led him to work for
the UN in Geneva, the OECD in Paris and advisory work for the European Commission
and Welsh and Westminster Governments. He is a Professor of Creative Entrepreneurship
and Director of the International Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship, also chairing
the University’s Enterprise and Employability Skills Enhancement Group on behalf of
the Learning and Teaching Committee.
Sylvia Perez, Ph.D., is a professor at CETYS Universidad Campus Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Her research
interests are regional development, entrepreneurship, ecosystems, biotechnology, sustainable
development. She will be a part of a CEEC Research session titled A Lens on Empowering Entrepreneurship and Impact.
Uday is co-founder and Executive Chairman of AcceleratorIndia, where he leads on cross-border
technology and business acceleration projects for major clients. Uday's core expertise
is focused on the creation and development of innovative technology-enabled businesses.
Over the past 30 years, he has worked across a wide range of industries and market
sectors in Europe, North America and Asia. He has deep hands-on experience of all
the key functional areas of business, ranging from research & development to sales
& fulfillment..
Audra Quinn is the CEO and Co-Founder of UnCorked! Games. Quinn is currently a doctoral
candidate in the Ivey Business School at Western University in Ontario, Canada. Before
starting her doctorate, Quinn was an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University and
Cal Poly Pomona. Quinn will be a part of a CEEC Research session analyzing the timing
of early-stage entrepreneurship.
Faiz Rabbani is a Lecturer at Dammam Community College in the King Fahd University
of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudia Arabia. Rabbani will be a part of a CEEC Teaching
session titled: A Kaleidoscope of Community College Approaches to Teaching Excellence.
Senior Economist, International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group
David Rahn is the director of the e-incubator at California State University, Chico.
He is a lecturer of entrepreneurship and strategy with a focus on experiential teaching
and learning. He is the founder of godigitalentrepreneurship.com and bizlaunchuniversity.com.
Bruce Reinig is the Dean of the Fowler College of Business at San Diego State University.
He is also a professor in the department of Management Information Systems.
Since 2000, Diana Robinson has resided in Ensenada Baja California, Mexico where she
joined the School of Design and Business administration at CETYS University as associate
professor and continues with Robinson Design studio. In 2013 she completed the Master
in Marketing at CETYS Universidad Ensenada and graduated with honors in 2020 from
UABC Ensenada, PHD in Business Administration.
Winslow Sargeant is the Senior Advisor for Globalization and Head of Capital Markets
at Genaesis and Managing Director with S&T, LLC. Dr. Sergeant previously served as
the Senior Vice President for Partnerships and Senior Vice President of Development
with ICSB. He will be apart of a panel dissecting entrepreneurship and developmental
agencies.
Bernhard Schroeder is a management lecturer for the Fowler College of Business where
he teaches entrepreneurship and creativity and innovation courses. He is also the
director, Lavin Entrepreneurship Center programs where he oversees all of the undergraduate
and graduate programs. He also has responsibility for the center's marketing on both
the SDSU campus and in the San Diego community. He teaches entrepreneurship and creativity
and innovation courses. Bernhard earned his MBA from SDSU in 2007.
Lois M. Shelton is a professor of management and entrepreneurship at Nazarian College and California State
University, Northridge. With research interests in women’s, minority, and immigrant
entrepreneurship, her work has won several awards from the Academy of Management,
USASBE, and the Diana International Research Conference.
Julienne Shields, Ph.D., is the CEO of the United States Association of Small Business
and Entrepreneurship (USASBE). Before entering this position, she was the Director
of the Millikin University Center for Entrepreneurship. Dr. Shields will be a part
of a CEEC Spotlight session featuring the USASBE Winners of the Research Idea Pitch
Competition.
Eric Smigel is Professor of Music and Coordinator of the Music History and Musicology
Program at San Diego State University. He received the M.A. degree in music history
and Ph.D. in historical musicology from the University of Southern California, where
he was twice recognized as the Outstanding Graduate in the Department of Music History
and Literature. While in Los Angeles, he taught music history at USC, served as a
research assistant at the Getty Research Institute, provided pre-concert lectures
for the Da Camera Society, worked as an educator for the International House of Blues
Foundation, and was a docent at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Before joining
the faculty at SDSU, he served as Assistant Professor of Music at Utah State University,
where he taught music history, music theory, and an interdisciplinary arts course.
At SDSU Prof. Smigel teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in music
history, music research, and musicology, as well as a general education course in
psychedelic rock of the 1960s. He also served as a “Prelude Presenter” for the chamber
music series of the La Jolla Music Society and has contributed to community outreach
projects with the San Diego Public Library and the San Diego Museum of Contemporary
Art.
Patrick Snyder served as executive director of the USASBE for five years. Patrick
is the executive director of BizStarts in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His session will discuss
Michael Morris’ Bootcamp Entrepreneurship in Adversity, with the overall objective
of exploring possible exercises that might be added to enhance the program.
Jeffrey Stamp is a senior lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the University of Minnesota.
He is also the founder and Chief Storyteller at Bold Thinking, LLC. Dr. Stamp is recognized
worldwide as a master creative practitioner and has developed numerous methods that
are designed to accelerate ‘Discovery Thinking’ and cognitive fluidity.
I am an Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Stetson Hatcher
School of Business at Mercer University. I earned my Ph.D. in Strategic Management
and Entrepreneurship from the Georgia Institute of Technology and my Bachelor’s degree
in Economics from the University of Georgia.
My research agenda lies at the intersection of management and entrepreneurship with
a primary focus on the role of human capital in shaping entrepreneurial entry, performance,
and exit. I also have a strong research interest in the effects of entrepreneurship
on local economic growth.
Dr. Geoffrey Stewart is the LEED Center Director and the Moody Companies/BORSF Endowed
Chair in Regional Business Development. He has 15+ years of experience in applied
research and MBA course service projects to augment regional economic development
initiatives focusing on recovery and resilience within Louisiana communities.In July
2018, Dr. Stewart’s research team received a USDA Rural Development grant to develop
an economic development strategy for the seafood industry in Coastal Acadiana parishes.
Dr. Curt Stiles is an associate professor of management at the University of North
Carolina at Wilmington. He has authored numerous articles in the fields of strategic management, entrepreneurship,
and economic history and is co-editor of the book Ethnic Entrepreneurship. Stiles
will join a session aimed at teaching the entrepreneurial mindset.
Philip Van Berten, Ph.D., is a professor of entrepreneurship and marketing at Stevenson
University. Dr. Van Berten is also Founder and Director of Versatile Advisors, a Business Development Consulting Firm.
He will be a part of a CEEC Teaching session exploring experiential entrepreneurship
through the butterfly idea approach.
Shailendra Vyakarnam is a former visiting professor of entrepreneurship and director
of the Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship at Cranfield University and Associate Senior
Common Room at King’s College Cambridge. Vyakarnam will be a part of a CEEC Research
session aimed at redefining market opportunities in entrepreneurship.
Noriko Taji, Ph.D., is a professor in the MBA School and Department of Business Administration
at Hosei University in Japan. Dr. Taji is also a Director of the Research Institute for Innovation Management of Hosei University. Dr. Taji will be a part of a CEEC Research session analyzing the timing of early-stage
entrepreneurship.
Tracy Tanner is the CEO of Kolena Corporation, based in Orange, California. Kolena
Corporation provides professional services and creates strategic partnerships with
creative content leaders in entrepreneurship. Tanner will be in a session called Employability
and Entrepreneurship, which will critically redesign entrepreneurship’s core connection
in community colleges.
David Townsend is an associate professor of Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management, Technology Management at Virginia Tech. His
research focuses on capital acquisition processes including crowdfunding, angel investments,
and venture capital. Townsend will appear on a panel showcasing award-winning entrepreneurship
programs from across the country.
David Turner is a lecturer at San Diego State University. Formerly, David was the
CEO and Founder of Parallel6, a PRA Health Sciences Company, and the inventor of Clinical
6a mClinical platform serving both Pharma and Health verticals.
Irvin L. Young Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Wisconsin Whitewater.
Experienced Professor of Management with a demonstrated history of working in the
higher education industry.Skilled in Negotiation, Instructional Design, Project Management,
and Team Leadership. Strong consulting professional with a Doctor of Business Administration
focused in Strategic Management from CETYS Universidad.
Montressa L. Washington, Ph.D., is the co-director of Shenandoah University’s Institute
for Entrepreneurship and Assistant Professor of Management in the Shenandoah University
School of Business. Dr. Washington will be a part of two CEEC sessions. She will collaborate
on a CEEC Research session demonstrating a lens on empowering entrepreneurship and
impact. She will also moderate a CEEC Spotlight session.
Tara Watrous is the Head of Entrepreneurial Transformation at the University of Connecticut
Werth Institute. Before taking on this position, Watrous was a Student Development
and Digital Credentialing Specialist. She will be a part of a CEEC Teaching session
aimed at reinventing entrepreneurship education.
Rebecca White is the Walter Chair of Entrepreneurship, Professor of Entrepreneurship
and Director of the John P. Lowth Entrepreneurship Center at the University of Tampa.
Her primary area of expertise is in the intersection of entrepreneurial ecosystems,
opportunity recognition and entrepreneurial mindset. Additionally, she was named 2010 Woman of the Year by the Tampa Bay Business Journal.
Don Ajené Wilcoxson has a Doctorate in Ministry with an emphasis in Theology, a Masters
degree in Business Administration focused on Entrepreneurship, a Certified Emotional
Intelligence (EQ) assessor, and a Preferred Partner with Six Seconds, the largest
global EQ network. He is a serial entrepreneur focusing on developing an Entrepreneurial
and EQ Mindset in his students and clients. Don has assisted small business owners
from idea development through grand opening for over 22-years. He is known as a dynamic
and engaging presenter, trainer, and consultant. As a full professor at Riverside
City College, he teaches entrepreneurship and business courses, and is co-lead of
the NSF Cyberpreneurship program.
Grant Alexander Wilson, Ph.D., is a Lecturer in the Edwards School of Business at
the University of Saskatchewan. His research interests are in entrepreneurship, marketing, consumer economics, and organizational learning. Dr. Wilson will be a part of a CEEC Research analyzing the timing of early-stage entrepreneurship.
Doan’s passion is giving students a voice, and motivating younger generations to tackle
their dreams through creating their own careers. Before joining the John Carroll family,
he was an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Associate Director of the Means
Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Illinois State University.
Christoph Winkler is a Hynes Endowed Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at
Iona College. Winkler is also the founding program director of the Hynes Institute
for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He will be a part of an Editor’s Roundtable at
CEEC 2021.
Yi Yang, Ph.D., is a professor, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Department
Chair and Co-director of the Jack M. Wilson Center for Entrepreneurship at the University
of Massachusetts, Lowell. Dr. Yang will be a part of a CEEC Teaching focused on reaching
entrepreneurship across disciplines, borders, and ecosystems.
William “Bill” Yelle is an adjunct faculty member in the Manning School of Business
at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, specializing in management, marking, entrepreneurship,
and innovation. Yelle will be a part of a CEEC Teaching focused on reaching entrepreneurship
across disciplines, borders, and ecosystems.
John York is a lecturer at the University of California, San Diego.
Congcong Zheng is an associate professor at San Diego State University. She also helps
Task One LLC clients to research markets, develop new product and expansion strategies,
and facilitate entrepreneurial and leadership training.
2021 Virtual CEEC Call for Proposals
Now Taking Proposals for Interactive Research or Pedagogy Sessions
The California Entrepreneurship Educators Conference seeks to engage conference participants
in cutting edge, transformative activities and discussion related to reinventing entrepreneurship
research and pedagogy. Those wishing to propose an activity for the conference must
designate whether the activity should fit in either the research or pedagogy track. If your proposal is chosen for the conference, you (and all panel members if applicable),
must be registered for the 2021 conference.
Note: Proposals will be competitively evaluated for inclusion in the program.
Research Track: Research topics might include, but will not be limited to the following:
- Asking great and relevant research questions
- Discussing useful research methods
- Developing new theoretical frameworks in entrepreneurship
- Applying existing theories to better understand the entrepreneurial process
- Reviewing a research domain and engaging in pro and con discourse
- Discussing disruptions needed to improve the review process and confidence in research
findings (e.g., replication studies, crowdsourcing reviews)
Pedagogy Track: Pedagogy or curriculum topics might include, but will not be limited to the following:
- Insights to improve student engagement and learning
- Introductions to new pedagogical tools and exercises
- Ideas for unique entrepreneurship course designs (especially interdisciplinary course
designs)
- Curriculum design
- Cross-campus engagement
- Co-curricula activities
- Assessment tools for courses or programs
Workshop and Panel Presentation Proposal Guidelines: Please use the guidelines listed below to help you in your proposal submission.
- Workshop proposal is leader-led and is limited to 50 minutes including 15 minutes of questions and
answers.
- Panel proposal is speaker led and limited to ten minutes. We may combine two to three panels for
a conference session which will also include 20 minutes of questions and answers.
- Lightning round proposal is speaker led, can be research or pedagogy, development project or unique activity,
limited to 12 minutes total (7 minutes to present, 5 minutes Q & A). We may combine two to three lightning rounds for a conference session.
All submissions are due by Monday, February 15, 2021 at 12:00 pm PST.
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research and pedagogy. Over the course of a given sponsorship, the impressions a sponsor
can experience on our expansive network of researchers, educators, and business leaders
can range from 250,000 to 400,000 impressions.
As a leading conference, the CEEC is designed to create the optimal environment for
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are:
- ICSB
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- Fowler College of Business at SDSU
- Texas A&M McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship
- St. Thomas University Schulze School for Entrepreneurship
- Trosh Center for Entrepreneurship at UNLV
- Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Fresno State
- BizStarts
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