Stanford Technology Ventures Program : About

About Us

STVP accelerates entrepreneurship education at Stanford and around the world.

As the entrepreneurship center in Stanford’s School of Engineering, the Stanford Technology Ventures Program delivers courses and extracurricular programs to Stanford students, creates scholarly research on high-impact technology ventures, and produces a large and growing collection of online content and experiences for people around the world.

Core Team

Faculty

Tom Byers

Professor, MS&E

Faculty Co-Director

Bio

Chuck Eesley

Assistant Professor, MS&E

Bio

Kathleen Eisenhardt

Professor, MS&E

Faculty Co-Director

Bio

Kathleen Eisenhardt

Riitta Katila

Professor, MS&E

Bio

Riitta Katila

Tina Seelig

Professor of the Practice, MS&E

Executive Director

Bio

Tina Seelig

Robert Sutton

Professor, MS&E

Bio

Robert Sutton

Staff

Leticia Britos Cavagnaro

Deputy Director, Epicenter

Dimitre Dimitrov

Finance and Accounting Manager

Dimitre Dimitrov

Rebecca Edwards

Global Programs Manager

Rebecca Edwards

Matt Harvey

Managing Director

Matt Harvey

Sarah Khan

Technology Projects Manager

Sarah Khan

Laurie Moore

Communications Manager, Epicenter

Laurie Moore

Michael Pena

Communication Specialist

Michael Pena

Anaïs Saint-Jude

Student Engagement Manager

Anais Saint-Jude

Nikkie H. Salgado

Program Coordinator

Nikkie Salgado

Eli Shell

Digital Media Producer

Eli Shell

Danielle Steussy

Designer

Danielle Steussy

Lecturers

Management Science & Engineering
Fenwick & West Entrepreneurship Educators

Ravi Belani

Spirit of Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

Technology Entrepreneurship & Lean Startups

Leticia Britos Cavagnaro

(Mechanical Engineering)
Creativity and Innovation

Toby Corey

Spirit of Entrepreneurship

Jeff Epstein

Technology Entrepreneurship & Lean Startups

Jeff Schox, Esq.

Patent Law & Strategy for Innovators and Entrepreneurs

Jack Fuchs

Technology Venture Formation

Aleta Hayes

(Theater & Performance Studies)
Engineering Innovation

Rebeca Hwang

Technology Entrepreneurship

Thomas Kosnik

Technology Entrepreneurship
Global Entrepreneurial Marketing

Trevor Loy

Entrepreneurial Management & Finance

Michael Lyons

Technology Venture Formation

Audrey MacLean

Technology Venture Formation

Fern Mandelbaum

(Graduate School of Business)
Accel Innovation Scholars

Heidi Roizen

Spirit of Entrepreneurship
DFJ Entrepreneurial Leaders Fellowship

Lynda Kate Smith

Global Entrepreneurial Marketing

Vic Stanton

Accounting for Managers & Entrepreneurs

Affiliated Stanford Faculty

Stephen Barley

Management Science & Engineering

Margaret Brandeau

Management Science & Engineering

Richard Dasher

Electrical Engineering

George Foster

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Ashish Goel

Management Science & Engineering

Pamela Hinds

Management Science & Engineering

Paul Yock, MD

Medicine

Woody Powell

Education

Hayagreeva Rao

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Amin Saberi

Management Science & Engineering

John Weyant

Management Science & Engineering

Past Visiting Faculty

Anil Gupta

University of Maryland

Matthew Hayward

University of Colorado

Peter Kelly

Aalto University

Ricardo San Martin

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Stefan Meisiek

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Alan Meyer

University of Oregon

Peter Russo

Munich University of Applied Sciences

Patricio del Sol

Universidad del Desarrollo

Patricia Thornton

Duke University

Joe Tranquillo

Bucknell University

Noam Wasserman

Harvard University

Poh Kam Wong

National University of Singapore

Board of Advisors

Sarah Arora

McKinsey and Company

Steve Blank

Serial Entrepreneur & Educator

Jim Breyer

Accel Partners

Teresa Briggs

Deloitte

Shona Brown

Advisor, Google

Gordon Davidson

Fenwick & West

Peter Fenton

Benchmark Capital

Andrew Hargadon

University of California, Davis

Jeff Hawkins

Founder; Palm, Handspring, Numenta

Jean-Francois Heitz

Investor, Microsoft (former)

Deborah Hopkins

Citi Ventures

Mir Imran

Founder, InCube Labs

Steve Jurvetson

Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Mike Klausner

Stanford University

Jeffrey Koseff

Stanford University

Kathy Ku

Stanford University

John Lilly

Greylock Partners

Emily Ma

Google

Donna Novitsky

Yiftee

Jim Plummer

Stanford University

Karen Richardson

Board, British Telecom & Exponent

Bernie Roth

Stanford University

Filipe Santos

INSEAD

Ted Schlein

KPCB

Carla Shatz

Stanford University

Jim Sweeney

Stanford University

Phil Weilerstein

VentureWell

Paul Yock

Stanford University

Stefanos Zenios

Stanford University

Sponsors

NSF

Along with our current sponsors, STVP graciously thanks all of the individuals, companies and foundations that have supported our work to accelerate entrepreneurship education since 1999.

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Contact

STVP

Huang Engineering Center, Suite 003
475 Via Ortega
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4121

(650) 723-2164

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