EDUCATION:
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Doctoral Candidate (ABD), Entrepreneurship in Education, University of Pennsylvania
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MBA, Entrepreneurship, Finance, & Strategy, UCLA – Anderson School of Management
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BA, Political Science, University of Rhode Island
ACADEMIC TEACHING:
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BUS3260 – Social Entrepreneurship – Business as Mission
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Entrepreneurship – Creating a New Business (UCLA)
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Start-Ups and Entrepreneurship (FIDM – Los Angeles)
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Social Entrepreneurship (University of Pennsylvania)
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Business Plan Writing (UCLA & University of Pennsylvania)
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New Venture Development and Strategy
CAREER HISTORY:
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Partner / Founder – 158 Ventures / Strata Partners, 2001 – Present
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Instructor (UCLA, University of Pennsylvania, FIDM)
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Enterprise Development Director – Jacobs Center for Nonprofit Innovation
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Farber Fellow - Roberts Enterprise Development Fund / Juma Ventures
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Senior Associate, Investment Banking – Wedbush Morgan Securities
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Associate, Capital Markets – Kidder Peabody
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Associate, Capital Markets – Merrill Lynch
KEY AWARDS:
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Farber Fellowship (REDF – San Francisco, CA)
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Wolfen Entrepreneurial Fellowship (UCLA)
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Kopp Foundation Scholarship recipient (University of Rhode Island)
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Outstanding Faculty – (FIDM Los Angeles)
HOBBIES / INTERESTS:
Creative Writing, Sports, Hiking, Dog Training
QUOTE:
“The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.” Fr. Richard Rohr
SCRIPTURE:
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? Mark 8:36
