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 currently the lead instructor for the NSF I-Corps Great Lakes Region Hub, and  a certified instructor in the national I-Corps Teams program.

 

Dr Pavone has had three careers: in magazine and software publishing (primarily at start-ups), in financial services (mainly leading internal corporate start-ups and turnarounds) and in academia. At the University of Minnesota, she taught entrepreneurship and strategy courses at the MBA level. She also led MIN-Corps, educating thousands of researchers on technology commercialization and entrepreneurship, many of whom went on to become successful entrepreneurs raising over $150 million 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 NSF 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.