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Presenter Information
Zoltan Acs Zoltan J. Acs is University Professor at the School of Public Policy, Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy at George Mason University a Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Economics and a Visiting Scholar at the Kauffman Foundation. Recipient of the 2001 International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research awarded on behalf of The Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development. He is coeditor and founder of Small Business Economics, and one of the leading scholars in entrepreneurship. His most recent publication is Entrepreneurship, Geography and American Economic Growth, Cambridge University press. In 1998 he completed the largest cross-country bike ride in history: The GTE BIG RIDE across America, raising millions for lung disease.
Howard E. Aldrich is Kenan Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he won the Carlyle Sitterson Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2002. He is chair of the Department of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Management in the Kenan Flagler Business School. In 2000, he received two honors: the Swedish Foundation of Small Business Research named him the Entrepreneurship Researcher of the Year and the Organization and Management Division of the Academy of Management presented him with an award for a Distinguished Career of Scholarly Achievement.
Ben Barry “One of 25 leaders of tomorrow” by Maclean's, twenty-four-year-old Ben Barry has challenged status quo beauty since he was a teenager. At age fourteen, Ben helped a friend who was told she was “too big” to be a model by sending her pictures to a magazine editor. The editor called him back, hired his friend, and with that one phone call, Ben launched his modeling agency. Today, Ben serves as CEO of the Ben Barry Agency, a model consultancy headquartered in Toronto, Canada. His company scouts and sources models of all ages, sizes, colours, and abilities for fashion and beauty brands, including Sears, Macy’s, and the groundbreaking Dove Campaign for Real Beauty. He has been the subject of feature interviews on Oprah, CNN, MTV, Fashion Television, and Canada AM, among others. He is also the recipient of the CIBC National Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Award for making an outstanding contribution to Canada. Ben is a business columnist for the Globe and Mail and author of the Canadian bestseller Fashioning Reality: A New Generation of Entrepreneurship. His book was hailed by Profit Magazine as “a manifesto for young entrepreneurs and a call to arms to everyone,” and is currently in development as a CTV special presentation. He holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Women’s Studies from Trinity College at the University of Toronto where he studied on a four-year National Millennium Scholarship, and a Master’s in Innovation and Strategy from Judge Business School at Cambridge University. He is currently conducting doctoral research on perceptions of beauty around the world on an Ogilvy Foundation Research Grant at Cambridge University and working on his second book, Beyond Beauty: Discovering, Challenging, and Redefining Beauty. Ben serves on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Foundation of Women’s Health and the Advisory Committee of the Toronto Fashion Incubator.
Candida Brush Dr. Brush is well known for her pioneering research in women’s entrepreneurship. She conducted the first and largest study of women entrepreneurs in the early 1980s, resulting in one of the earliest books on the topic. Her continued research catalyzed studies and dissertations worldwide. With four other researchers she founded the Diana Project, a research consortium investigating women’s access to growth capital. They wrote the book, Clearing the Hurdles: Women Building High Growth Businesses, published in 2004. In 2006 she co-edited a book Growth-Oriented Women Entrepreneurs and their Businesses, A Global Research Perspective. For this research, she and her colleagues received the FSF-NUTEK International Award for outstanding research contributions in the field of Entrepreneurship in 2007. Brush has also authored several publications on new venture strategies and international entrepreneurship. Her research is published in both management and entrepreneurship journals including Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Executive, and Strategic Management Journal. Brush’s research has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Business Week on Line, the Boston Globe and Inc., among others. She is also an editor for Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. A frequent adviser to the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy on women’s entrepreneurship, Brush was appointed to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for Women’s Business Research and the Children Without Borders Foundation.
Marie-Florence Estimé Marie-Florence Estimé is the Deputy Director of the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs & Local Development (CFE) which brings together the SME & Entrepreneurship Division, the Tourism Unit and the Local Economic and Employment Development Programme (LEED).
Mme Estimé has been responsible for the OECD Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship since its foundation in March 1993. She has developed the Working Party’s programme of activities and studies on issues and policies concerning SMEs in OECD countries, in particular in the areas of: globalisation, innovation and competitiveness, employment and job creation, high growth SMEs, ICTs and e-business, management training, women’s entrepreneurship. She also has developed, whenever possible, an exchange of information and co-operation with non-member economies, international organisations, the business sector and NGOs.
Mme Estimé has managed the preparation of the 1st and 2nd OECD Ministerial Conference on SMEs (Bologna, June 2000 and Istanbul, June 2004) and the thematic conferences on: “Better Financing for Entrepreneurship and SME Growth”(Brasilia, March 2006), “Removing Barriers to SME Access to International Markets” (Athens, November 2006) and “Enhancing the Role of SMEs in Global Value Chains” (Tokyo, May 2007), subsequently organised in the framework of the OECD Bologna Process on SME & Entrepreneurship Policies.
Marie-Florence Estimé has an advanced Economics Degree (Development and International Relations) from the University of Paris. Before joining the OECD, she worked at the French Ministry of Economics and Finance (Direction de la Prévision). At the OECD, Mme Estimé worked at the Development Centre, the Economics Department and the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry where she prepared and/or contributed to a number of studies.
Kevin Hindle Kevin Hindle is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, Teaching Professor at the University of Southern Denmark and Director of the Venture Intelligence Institute. He is a teacher, researcher, management consultant and private equity investor whose variety of expertise and interests embrace many aspects of managing in conditions of uncertainty. His teaching, research, managerial and consulting work focuses on building entrepreneurial capacity. This embraces several areas: new venture evaluation; entrepreneurial business planning; market and financial modelling; change management; organisational design; corporate strategy and management training. Applying leading-edge research to practical problems, he has initiated and developed new ventures and worked for organisations large and small, public and private, Australian and international. In a long career as a management educator, Kevin Hindle has developed and taught marketing, finance, organisational behaviour and entrepreneurship curricula for a range of degree award and executive development programs in Europe, Asia and America as well as Australasia. He has taught in the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration's executive MBA program and held visiting professorships in entrepreneurship at Baylor University (Texas), at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and was the inaugural visiting professor at the First Nations University of Canada (Regina, Saskatchewan). He is co-author of two textbooks on entrepreneurship. He was the foundation designer of the Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Degree at Swinburne University of Technology and wrote the initial version and many subsequent versions of ten of the twelve programs comprising that degree. His several professional awards include winning the (American) Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division and McGraw Hill Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award in 2004. This is a highly regarded honour for entrepreneurship education in the United States and he is the first and only non-North American ever to win it. In the same year he won Australia's highest entrepreneurship education award, the Business/Higher Education Round Table (B-Hert) Award for the Best Entrepreneurial Educator of the year. As a researcher, Kevin Hindle has authored over eighty publications including more than fifty peer-reviewed papers in a range of respected international journals and conference proceedings. From 2000 to 2007 he was Australian Project Director of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). His research activities are focused in six key areas: the innovation-entrepreneurship relationship: the factors and processes influencing new venture investment; entrepreneurship education (with emphasis upon the university); the methodology of entrepreneurship research; entrepreneurship policy; and the effect of community upon entrepreneurial process (with a particular focus upon Indigenous entrepreneurship). Beyond academia, Kevin Hindle e has a successful track record as an entrepreneur in his own right and currently risks his own money backing his judgment as both an angel and an independent private equity investor. He has a strong network of collaborations and personal friendships among leading entrepreneurship scholars and practitioners throughout the world and a track record of substantial fundraising for entrepreneurship research. He has consulted on entrepreneurship policy to both State and Federal governments and several international universities, government organizations and corporations. He was a ministerially appointed foundation member of Australia's National Innovation Awareness Council and is a member of the advisory board of the International Danish Entrepreneurship Academy (IDEA). The unifying theme of all his work is to develop and execute constructive, internationally relevant research whose findings can be used to enhance the education and development of ethical, successful, world-focused entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial advisers and policy-makers.
Anders Hoffman Anders has been involved in a range of projects related to the development of a theoretical approach to micro-policy research, and has also been a key participant in the practical use of benchmarking analysis in identifying best-practice policies and evaluating the effects of policy instruments at a micro-level. He is the founder of the International Consortium on Entrepreneurship, where he led ground-breaking work on fact-based entrepreneurship policy and impact measurement, including the development of a major publication on Quality Entrepreneurship Indicators. He is also Chairs the Steering Group for the OECD Project on Entrepreneurship Indicators. Prior to his post as Director of Entrepreneurship Policy, he was Creative Director at FORA, a Policy Research Unit in the Danish Agency for Enterprise and Construction. He was also a Senior Economist with the OECD supervising a team of economists and statisticians and co-ordinating activities related to micro-policy benchmarking. He has published articles in several major journals including Journal of International Economics and Economic Modelling. He holds a PhD in Economics.
Anders Lundstrom Dr Anders Lundström is the President and initiator of FSF. Lundström has during many years in different positions been responsible for development of a vast number of research and policy oriented programs in Sweden and abroad. He has been Research Director at the Swedish Industrial Development Board, Deputy Director at NUTEK with responsibility for SME development as well as introduction of EU programs on the Swedish market. He was also a member of the steering committee for the EU program Europartenariat carried out in Luleå 1996. He was main responsible for the building of EIC network in Sweden and has participated in a number of EU programs both as a manager and as a researcher. Lundström is since 1997 the President of FSF and since 2000 adj professor at Mälardalen’s University.
Chris Pelham Chris has in excess of twenty-five years of community development and business advisory experience. This experience has been gained as Development Officer for the City Of Halifax, National property Director of the Heritage Canada Foundation, Executive Director of the Windsor Business Improvement District Commission , Windsor West Hants Business Development Centre, and the Acadia Centre for Social and Business Entrepreneurship. Chris hold a degree in Marketing and Finance from Saint Mary's University and a certificate in Adult Training from Acadia University and a certificate in Competency-Based Education from Holland College. He has recently been awarded the 2005 Life Achievement Award from the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship for his contribution to the development of entrepreneurial education in Canada and abroad. As an entrepreneur Chris has owned or owns small businesses in Retail, Construction, Real Estate, Professional services, and agriculture. Chris was the founding chairman of the Professional Standards Committee and vice chair of the Coordinating Council for APEC-IBIZ, a director of the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (CCSBE). He serves and has served on many not for profit boards and provides strategic planning services to the not for profit sector. He is also a founding member of EntreNet, the emerging virtual community serving entrepreneurial educators, policy makers, researchers, and practitioners. The Acadia Centre for Social and Business Entrepreneurship (ACSBE) www.acsbe.com has been designing and delivering training and counselling to existing and would-be entrepreneurs for 20 years to in excess of 15,000 clients. The Centre’s competency based and personal approach to entrepreneurial development has been adopted by Acadia University, a variety of other educational institutions, and Asia Pacific Economic cooperation business counsellors program (APEC-IBIZ). The Centre’s materials and tools are used by many counselling agencies and economic development agencies as well for educational purposes.
Entrepreneurship at Acadia University emphasizes the holistic approach to entrepreneurial decision making including responsibility for social, community, and environmental stewardship and is emerging as a pillar of an Acadia degree.
Jim Reid Jim Reid is the Founder and CEO of Green Solutions North America Inc. (GSNA), dedicated to providing corporations alternatives to dumping their office assets into a landfill. A native of Edinburgh, Jim Reid retains a soft Sean Connery–like burr despite an education in southern England at Cranfield University and graduate work at the INSEAD business school in Fontainbleu, France. He has held executive and senior positions in IT/Technology and banking industries as well as CEO positions in European-wide organizations. Prior to launching GSNA in North America, Reid began studying how CSR works here. What he discovered? The market here is vast. Management seemed to embrace the concept but many lacked a process to make it reality. There is no doubt that most corporations make every effort to do the right thing, and with CSR, many have gone to great lengths to create, articulate, and publish their CSR policies. However, in many cases these policies are not connected to their processes, and that is what Green Solutions North America Inc. (GSNA) does: turn policy into process in a compelling, tangible, and real way. Their process takes items such as office furniture and computer equipment and redistributes them to local and third world charities. Their goal is to keep these types of items from ending up in a landfill site and to have them utilized by people who need them. Through their redistribution network, they have developed “School in a Box™" and “Doc in a Box™" which are initiatives that build, equip and support schools and medical centres around the world.
Bob Richards Dr. Richards is Chief Executive Officer of the CERT Group of Companies in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The Center of Excellence for Applied Research and Training (CERT), the commercial arm of the Higher Colleges of Technology, is the largest private education provider in the Middle East, and also the largest investor, public or private, in applied research and commercialization of technology. In addition to a distinguished career in education as a university professor and executive, Dr. Richards is Founder and/or Co-Founder of five Canadian Companies, including one of Canada’s largest private colleges. For his work in business development in Newfoundland Dr. Richards was awarded the 1994 Entrepreneur of the Year Award and was an Invited member of the Prime Minister of Canada’s “Team Canada” International Trade Delegation in 1998.
From 1999 to 2004 Bob was Executive Director and CEO of the Gardiner Institute for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship and NexInnovations Chair in Technology and Entrepreneurship at Memorial University in Canada. Dr. Richards was co-appointed by the faculties of Medicine, Science, Engineering and Business. This Canada Research Chair was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and is the only chair of its kind in the nation. In this capacity he led the successful launch and commercialization of 15 technology companies arising from discoveries in medicine, science and engineering. Bob has served in a number of key public leadership positions including as a Governor of the Atlantic Canada Economic Council and Chairman of Athlete’s Village for the 1999 Canada Games. Bob’s speeches and papers have been featured at more than 200 events since 1990. He is considered to be a thought leader in the human and education issues arising from technology and change. On four occasions excerpts from Dr. Richards’ presentations have been aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s popular international radio show “As It Happens”, during their “For the Record” segment. Dr. Richards holds a PhD in Educational Leadership from Brigham Young University, USA, a Master’s Degree in Education Administration and a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Education degree from Memorial University, Canada.
David Storey Professor David Storey is Associate Dean (Research) at Warwick Business School and Director of the Centre for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises. He has a First Class Degree in Economics, a Diploma in Applied Statistics and a PhD in Economics. He also has two honorary Doctorates and currently holds the title of Visiting Professor at Durham Business School, having previously held similar positions at the Universities of Manchester and Reading. He has been an EIM Fellow since 2001. In 1998 he received the International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research from the Swedish Council. His book, Understanding the Small Business Sector, is the most frequently cited item of writing on small firms and was translated into Japanese in 2003. This summarised the outcome of the ESRC Small Business Initiative which he co-ordinated. For four years he was appointed by the UK Secretary of State for Trade and Industry as a Member of the Small Business Council which advises the government on small business policy making. He has undertaken work for many overseas governments and organisations. During 2006, for example, he acted as consultant to the governments of Australia, Mexico, New Zealand and Denmark as well as the World Bank. In 2008 he completed a Handbook on SME policy evaluation for OECD. Currently he is a consultant to the Inter American Development Bank (IADB) for SME policy in Mexico and had previous assignments on micro enterprises in Trinidad and Tobago, and in Jamaica. In Europe he co-ordinated an EU-wide review of new technology based firms for DG XIII, and is the UK partner in the SME Observatory for DG Enterprise.
David Wheeler David Wheeler is Dean of the Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. The Faculty of Management comprises four Schools: the School of Business Administration, the School of Public Administration, the School of Information Management and the School of Resource and Environmental Studies as well as the Marine Affairs Program. The Faculty of Management at Dalhousie has a holistic and values-based approach to management education and research and is united by the philosophy of ‘Management Without Borders’. The Faculty is also home to five research centres: the Eco-Efficiency Centre, the Centre for Management Informatics, the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship, the RBC Centre for Risk Management and the Centre for International Business Studies. David Wheeler’s most recent post was Director and Erivan K Haub Professor in Business and Sustainability at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto. He was also the Founding Director of the York Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability – a strategic initiative of York University embracing all ten faculties. David Wheeler has published more than 70 articles and book chapters in a wide variety of academic journals, books, parliamentary inquiries and popular journals, and has delivered speeches to numerous conferences and events. He has done numerous television and radio broadcasts on environmental and social issues and business. David was principal author of The Stakeholder Corporation - the first business text to be endorsed by former UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair. He was an advisor to the UK Government on governance aspects of the Company Law Review, a member of the UK Government Advisory Committee on Consumer Products and the Environment and the Reference Group for Canada’s National Report to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Rio+10). He was co-founder of the UK business-led Committee of Inquiry - A New Vision for Business that reported directly to Prime Minister Tony Blair in November 1999.
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