Carla Pavone, PhD MBA 

Dr. Pavone facilitates deep technology commercialization and entrepreneurship by providing education and coaching to product developers, startup founders, and academic researchers.  She also is the lead instructor for the NSF I-Corps Great Lakes Region Hub, a certified national I-Corps Teams instructor, and innovation and commercialization lead for the ATP-Bio Engineering Research Center.

 

Dr Pavone has had three careers: in magazine and software publishing (primarily start-ups), in financial services (leading corporate internal start-ups and turnarounds), and in academia. At the University of Minnesota, she taught entrepreneurship and strategy courses at the Carlson School of Management, and was the Associated Director of the Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship. She also was the founding director of MIN-Corps, educating thousands of researchers on technology commercialization and entrepreneurship, many of whom went on to become successful entrepreneurs raising hundreds of million dollars in commercialization research grants and equity.  She also was a co-PI of the NSF Great Lakes I-Corps Region Hub, co-associate director - Innovation Ecosystem for the Institute for Engineering in Medicine, and senior personnel - Innovation Pillar for the ATP-Bio Engineering Research Center.

 

Dr. Pavone has a BA in biology from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a PhD in business administration from the Carlson School of Management.