Phillip H. Phan is Professor and Vice Dean for Faculty and Research at The Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. Between 2000 and 2007, he was the Warren H. Bruggeman '46 and Pauline Urban Bruggeman Distinguished Professor of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He held the 2004 and 2005 Haniel Foundation Visiting Professorship at Humboldt University in Berlin and was the 2006 Robert Bosch Foundation Public Policy Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He is the holder of the 2008 Tommie Goh Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Policy and Entrepreneurship at the Singapore Management University.

In 2008, Phil published three books: Theoretical Advances in Family Enterprise Research (InfoAge Press), Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in Emerging Regions (Edward Elgar), and Taking Back the Boardroom: Thriving as a Director in the 21st Century (Imperial College Press). His areas of research and teaching are in Technological Entrepreneurship and Corporate Governance.

Phil has published more than 80 peer reviewed research articles in such journals as the Academy of Management Journal, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Corporate Governance, European Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Research Policy, IEEE Transactions Engineering Management and Small Business Economics. He served two terms on the editorial review board of the Academy of Management Journal, and is now Associate Editor for the Journal of Business Venturing, the Journal of Financial Stability, and the Journal of Technology Transfer.

Phil has consulted for the World Bank, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, National Association for Corporate Directors, U.S. Small Business Administration, the National Academies of Sciences, and the National Science Foundation.

He serves as an expert in the OECD’s Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development, Berlin, Germany; and advises the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs and Berlin City Government on university entrepreneurship and regional development.

Phil has also consulted with such companies as Motorola, Hewlett Packard, IBM (Canada), Nokia, Ernst & Young, Metsaliitto (Finland), Pillsbury, Finlombardia (Italy), Agilent Technologies, SK Group (Korea), Sanoma (Finland), Singapore Airlines, PACCAR (U.S.), and IT oriented venture capital firms in Toronto and New York. He has provided expert testimony on entrepreneurship and regional economic development to the New York State Legislature committee on economic development, and to the National Academy of Sciences on science and technology parks.

Phil has been a regular expert contributor to CNBC, Bloomberg News, CNNOnline, Fox Business News, the Wall Street Journal and various regional and national print and media outlets in Singapore, Germany, and Canada.

Phil is a certified PADI Divemaster (199340) and Red Cross Emergency First Respondent.

Dimo Dimov is Assistant Professor of Management at University of Connecticut. From 2004 until 2006, he was on the faculty at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. He received a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship from London Business School (University of London) in 2004. Prior to entering academia, he was a finance executive with Marriott International in Hungary. Dimo’s research focuses on both sides of entrepreneurial opportunities – how potential entrepreneurs create them and how investors select them. It has been published in numerous academic journals as well as presented at numerous international conferences. Dimo’s teaching focuses on the generation, assessment, and development of entrepreneurial opportunities.

William Forster recently completed the doctoral program in entrepreneurship, strategy and business ethics at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. His research interests include founding partnerships, entrepreneurial cognition, and new venture teams, and his dissertation investigated the antecedents and consequences of entrepreneurial founding partnerships. Prior to attending Darden, he served for twelve years as an officer in the United States Air Force. He has accepted a position as an assistant professor at Lehigh University starting this fall.