The Applied Innovation Institute is home to the most respected faculty in entrepreneurship and innovation around the world.
Faculty
Global faculty for the world's most pressing issues

Paris de L’Etraz
Professor of Entrepreneurship, IE Business School; Managing Director, Venture Lab, IE Business School

Ikhlaq Sidhu
Member of the Board; Chief Scientist and Founding Director, Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET); IEOR Emerging Area Professor Award Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, UC Berkeley

James Tan
Managing Partner, Quest Ventures; Chairman, Action Community for Entrepreneurship; Co-founder, 55tuan (NASDAQ)

Bill Aulet
Managing Director, The Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship & Senior Lecturer, MIT

Brent Smith
Senior Associate Dean, Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University

Daniel Corsten
Professor, IE Business School; Visiting Associate Professor, London Business School; President, ECR Research Foundation

Jeffrey Char
Entrepreneurship Program Adjunct Professor, IE Business School; Founder & CEO, J-Seed Ventures, Inc

Elaine Chen
MIT Sloan School of Management, Founder and Managing Director, ConceptSpring

Johannes Flecker
Berklee ICE Startup Incubator Program, Berklee College of Music; Founder & CEO, Sound Leadership

Mario Alonso Puig
Medical Doctor and Fellow in Surgery, Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University

Mark Fritz
Professor of Virtual Communication, IE Business School; Founder, Procedor Limited

Matthias Yao
Director of Agmonton Pte Ltd; Board Member, Housing and Development Board Singapore; Lead Independent Director, iFAST Corporation Ltd

Mike Lyons
Consulting Associate Professor, Stanford University; Executive Chairman, CypherPath

Panos Panay
Managing Director, Berklee Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship; Founder, Sonicbids

Pedram Mokrian
Visiting Instructor, Stanford University; Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Peter Mathias
President and CEO, Financial and Professional Services, Mathias and Co. Services; Ph.D. , Harvard

Roy Richards
Chief Executive; Southwire Company; Corporate Governance and Board Management; IE

Sergio Kapusta
Chief Technology officer of Technel, Inc. Formerly, Manager of Physics & Materials Research; Shell International E&P, Inc.; Rice University

Sidney Tam
Assistant Professor in Innovation Risk Management and Entrepreneurship, Hong Kong University SPACE College Institute of China Business; CEO, Hubei RaySolution Medical Digital Imaging Technologies Limited; Honorary Secretary, Hong Kong Nasopharyngeal Foundation Funds

Won Joon Kim
Associate Professor, KAIST; President, Asia Innovation and Entrepreneurship Association (AIEA)

Zoran Perunovic
Associate Professor, Technical University of Denmark; Founder & CEO, ZP Consulting

Masa Inakage
Dean and Professor, Keio University Graduate School of Media Design; Co-Director, Keio-NUS CUTE Center; President, Media Studio, Inc

Asher Siddiqui
Ex Managing Partner 500 Startups, global investor, VC Advisor, ex Head M&A and VC at ETISALAT

Fabian Vandenreydt
Strategic Advisor to Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM); Industry Partner at Motive Partners

David Yeregui Marcos del Blanco
Lead Consultant, OAS. Partner, Quantum Group and DPI Group. Co-founder, Genhelix (acq’d). Founding Director, Science and Technology Department, Instituto Cervantes in Tokyo
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