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Center
Faculty
Michael W. Fountain,
PhD., MBA.
Director, Center for Entrepreneurship,
John & Beverley Grant Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship, College of
Business Administration
Professor, Industrial & Management Systems Engineering, College of
Engineering
Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine, College of Medicine
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Academic Vita
Dr.
Fountain currently serves as the Founding Director of the University of
South Florida’s (USF) university-wide Center for Entrepreneurship, which
delivers both the Graduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship and the
Master of Science Degree in Entrepreneurship in Applied Technologies.
He holds faculty appointments across the Colleges of Business, Medicine
and Engineering, serving both as a Professor in Industrial and
Management Systems Engineering, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and
as the John and Beverley Grant Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship in the
College of Business where he develops curriculum and research programs
in Entrepreneurship. Under Dr. Fountain’s direction, the Center for
Entrepreneurship has developed national and international prominence as
evidenced by top national awards in 2004, 2005, and 2006 and the number
9 ranking by Princeton Review of graduate entrepreneurship education
programs in 2007. He currently serves on the advisory boards of local
Tampa area organizations including Darkstar Information Services, STAR
TEC, Intezyne Technologies, Inc. Nanopharma DDS, DocuVantage and Youth
Empowered to Achieve. On a national level, he is the Director of the
National Consortium for Life Sciences Entrepreneurship and is a past
Entrepreneur in Residence at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation,
serving as a strategist in the area of Life Sciences Entrepreneurship,
and past board member for the Kauffman Center for Venture Education.
Dr. Fountain has
focused the past twenty-five years on creating, financing, growing and
harvesting biotechnology, medical device and life science companies. In
his career prior to coming to USF, Dr. Fountain founded or co-founded
seven new ventures, three of which became publicly traded companies.
During his corporate career he as served in a variety of leadership
roles including Chief Scientific Officer, Chief Executive Officer and
Chairman of the Board. Dr. Fountain was a pioneer in the field of
development and application of the use of phospholipids in micro- and
nano-particle technologies for drug encapsulation. He has successfully
patented and commercialized numerous innovative medical and diagnostic
products for the domestic and international marketplace, including
sustained release anti-cancer drugs, genetically engineered diagnostic
products for autoimmune diseases, microencapsulated dermatologic
products and advanced subunit vaccine products for prevention human and
animal infectious disease.
Dr. Fountain
received his Honors BS from Samford University, his MS and PhD from
Auburn University and his MBA from Bristol University. In addition, he
completed advanced studies in Education Theory at the University of
South Florida.
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Sean Lux, Ph.D, MBA
Visiting
Instructor
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Academic Vita
Sean Lux is a visiting instructor at the
University of South Florida’s Center for Entrepreneurship. He has
aPhD in Management from Florida
State University where he has taught Business Strategy and Policy and
Contemporary Leadership. He earned his MBA from the University of South
Florida and a BS in Civil Engineering from Norwich University. Sean then
received his commission in the U.S. Army and served with the 1st
Battalion, 27th Infantry, 1st
Battalion, 8th Field Artillery, and 2nd Battalion,
505th
Parachute Infantry. He has also held positions in companies ranging from
high tech entrepreneurial startups to the Fortune 500 gaining experience
in marketing, operations, audit, and general management. Sean’s research
interests include the role of personality characteristics and social
networks in opportunity recognition and exploitation, entrepreneurial
strategy formulation, and the role of firms in shaping society
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Center Staff
 Lu
Thompson
Office
Manager
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Assistant Directors
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Jose
Zayas-Castro, PhD, MBA, MS
Professor & Chair, Industrial & Management Systems
USF College of Engineering
Assistant Director,
Center for Entrepreneurship, Engineering Liaison
for Programs Relating to Entrepreneurship in Applied Technologies
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William
G. Marshall, Jr.,
MD, MBA
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Associate Dean & Associate Vice-President
for Clinical Affairs and Venture Development, USF Health;
Assistant Professor,
Department of Surgery
Assistant Director,
Center for Entrepreneurship,
USF Health Liaison for Programs Relating to Entrepreneurship in
Applied Technologies
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Stephen
R. Budd, MBA
Coordinator, Entrepreneurship Programs at USF
Lakeland
Assistant Director, Center for Entrepreneurship,
Liaison for Undergraduate Programs
Relating to
Entrepreneurship
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Faculty Associates |
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Dolores
K. Gooding
Director, Engineering Management Program
Professor, USF, Industrial & Management Systems Engineering |
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Sharon
Hanna-West, JD
Exide Distinguished Lecturer of Ethics and Sustainability,
Department of Management and Organization, USF, College of Business
Administration |
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Lois
LaCivita Nixon , PhD, MAT, MLitt, MPH
Program Director, Division Medical Ethics and Humanities, USF, College of Internal Medicine
Professor, Internal Medicine |
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Geary
A. Havran, MBA
Chairman of the Board and President of NDH Medical, Inc.,
Adjunct Professor, College of Engineering |
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Kingsley
A. Reeves, Jr., Ph.D., MBA
Assistant
Professor, USF, Industrial & Management
Systems Engineering, College of Engineering |
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Paul
Schnitzler, Ph.D. E.E.
Professor, Industrial and Management Systems Engineering,
College of Engineering |
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Robert Walker, MD.
Director, Division of Medical Ethics and
Humanities, Associate Professor Internal Medicine, USF, College of
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| In Memory:
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Paul
Givens, PhD., MBA
Emeritus Faculty, Retired USF Professor in Industrial & Management
Systems Engineering |
We are deeply
saddened by the sudden passing of one of our beloved faculty and
friend on October 13, 2007. Paul Givens served over a decade and a
half as the Chair of Industrial Engineering as well as many years as
Associate Dean for Outreach in the College of Engineering at USF.
He
was instrumental
in expanding the Entrepreneurial Graduate Program, which was
recently ranked in the top ten of all such programs in the USA. A
scholarship will be set up in his memory, for more information
contact 974-9896.I
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