Faculty: Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies

Dr. Glenn Fox is a faculty member at the University of Southern California's Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, in the Marshall School of Business. His current projects focus on neural systems for emotion regulation, high stakes training, and developing entrepreneurial mindset skills in founders and business leaders.

Glenn received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from USC, where he focused on the neural correlates of gratitude, empathy, and neuroplasticity. Currently, Glenn is the Director and Founder of the USC Found Well Initiative which aims to understand and promote entrepreneurial mindset in founders and business leaders.

Elissa's research concerns social networks in new venturing – encompassing network development for startup resource acquisition and crowdfunding. Her work has been published in journals including Journal of Management and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Before joining USC, Elissa was on the faculties of Loyola Marymount University and Baruch College.

Jessica Jackley is an entrepreneur and investor best known as founder of Kiva, the first microfinance crowdfunding platform with over $2B in loans since 2005. She is currently a Professor of the Practice of Entrepreneurship at the Marshall School of Business at USC, and Founder and GP at Untapped Capital. Previously, Jessica was Founder/CEO at Alltruists, creating unique volunteer experiences that can be done anywhere. Other notable experience includes serving as Walt Disney Imagineering's inaugural Entrepreneur in Residence, Chief Impact Officer at Aspiration, Venture Partner at Collaborative Fund and Mustard Seed Maze, author of CLAY WATER BRICK(PenguinRandom House), and founder/CEO of Profounder (acquired by GOOD Inc. in2010), among others. Jessica was previously a Visiting Practitioner at Stanford’s Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society. Extensive board service includes Habitat for Humanity, Opportunity International, International Museum of Women, and more.

Steven Mednick is an expert in entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, strategic alliances, and angel funding. He is the past Program Academic Director of the Marshall MSEI Program and the past Associate Director of Marshall’s Center for Global Innovation and is an author and frequent speaker in the field. Professor Mednick has taught in the Marshall Undergraduate, MBA, EMBA, OMBA, IBEAR, MBV, MMM and MSEI Programs and is a three-time winner of the Marshall Golden Apple teaching award at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Outside of USC, he has advised over 1,500 early-stage companies through his previous positions as head of corporate ventures and business development for a Silicon Valley technology company and through his sixteen-year relationship with the Small Business Administration. Steve’s SBA clients reported over $1 billion in economic impact to the SBA, and he was awarded the SBA’s State Star for outstanding performance.

Julien is a graduate of UC Berkeley School of Law (J.D., 1991) and the University of Southern California (B.A., 1988). Julien started his career in Los Angeles practicing complex commercial litigation at O’Melveny & Myers and then at Kaye Scholer.

David Belasco is an accomplished educator, entrepreneur, and attorney. At USC, he teaches “Taking the Leap – Entrepreneurial Mindset,” "Power, Players & Platforms in Global Sports," and “The Game is Life” with Pete Carroll and Dean Varun Soni. Professor Belasco has received four Golden Apple Teaching Awards, the Peer Achievement Award, and the USC Mentoring Award. He is active in USC Athletics through recruiting, mentoring, and supporting coaches.

Professor Belasco began his career as a lawyer at Latham & Watkins, then founded and sold companies in environmental services and manufacturing. Dave is a graduate of USC and earned his juris doctorate from the University of of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was an editor of The Law Review.

Dr. Anthony Borquez is an expert at building and scaling creative tech businesses. He is the founder of Grab, a leader in augmented and virtual reality. He also founded Blue Label Games, an early leader in mobile game development, later acquired by Konami.

Garrett is a fourth-generation Trojan who began his career as a lawyer representing entrepreneurs. His first sales role was at Fastpoint Games, where he eventually ran all Sales & Business Development efforts until the company was acquired. He then helped launch & scale Bitium, an enterprise software company, where he served as Chief Revenue Officer until they were acquired by Google. Garrett joined Google and learned countless lessons about the inner workings of one of the most recognizable companies on the planet. He’s now an active startup investor and advisor, and a founder of Agency18, a firm that helps companies, build, scale, and inspire sales teams. He is also co-author of the HarperCollins book, The Unsold Mindset.

Kathleen Allen, PhD is Professor Emeritus of Entrepreneurship at the USC Marshall School of Business where she founded and led the USC Marshall Center for Technology Commercialization. She is the author of multiple books and journal articles in the fields of entrepreneurship and technology. In 2014, she was selected as Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year by the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Her personal entrepreneurial endeavors include co-founding five companies and serving as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at a major aerospace firm. She is on the board of directors of an S&P 500 company as well as several private companies.

Patrick Henry's expertise is in applying theories of social networking into career and business development efforts for professionals. He received Marshall's Golden Apple Award in 2006 and 2012. He also received the Ivan C. Thompson Award for Mentoring of Students.

Knapp is the Academic Director of the Master's of Science in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and an Associate Professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship in the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.

Gene Miller has consulted for a variety of organizations, including the Sound Advance Systems, Rockwell Science Center, Munger, Towles and Olsen, and Akin, Gump. He has served as a Member of the Board of Directors and Treasurer of the Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara.